Waking up with balloons. Got this idea here, but we just blew up balloons and started tossing them into his room right after he woke up. This worked since he still sleeps in a crib and is used to waiting for us. He wanted us to put them all in his crib and hide under them like a ball pit. He kept coming back to this throughout the day.
Having breakfast with the dinosaurs. I remembered I had pinned this cool idea for a "Mater" sandwich and tried to recreate it on the fly. I asked Deane if it looked like Mater and he said No. :)
Playing in Grandma's flip flops. My parents are awesome and they came over to help us get stuff done since I had to cook for the party and Chris needed to work on garage and mow. Dad mowed and Mom babysat...and cooked...and did laundry. They are awesome.
Opened gift from Great Aunt and Great Uncle to keep the fun quotient high
Watching (part of ) Cars before lunch
Lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings (while the storms rolled in and out) while of course also watching Dino Dan on the iPad
We went for a ride in th rain and Deane had a well deserved birthday rest
When we got home, we introduced the "big" present, a bounce house that I read far too many reviews about. There was a theme of gifts that are helpful to building skills for Deane (I think this will be another post). Of course Deane was equally excited about the mattress we removed from the bed that had been in the location where the bounce house is sitting.
We sat on the deck, again in the storms. Deane listened to "Life is a Highway" on my phone (a current favorite song) from on top of the small slide while Kate tried to scale it.
Deane had chicken nuggets for his birthday dinner and told Chris, "Great Job", when he served him the microwaved nuggets.
After baby sister went to sleep, we worked on cleaning up the garage. At 30, I'm not very excited to be spendin my Saturday nights cleaning the garage, but Deane certainly didn't care that he was spending his birthday evening getting dirty in the garage. He is a boy through and through I guess. He tried on a bike helmet he discovered and every pair of Chris's shoes that reside in the garage. He kept saying "scary" whenever he put on a new get up.
And as you might expect, a birthday boy needs a birthday bath after all of that playing. His dinosaurs of course also needed a bath. Now it's Daddy and Deane's turn for some quiet time reading books and going to "weeps".
I'm planning to talk about how lucky we are to be sharing today and all of our days with our little man. Birthday party tomorrow, Deane style.
Happy Birthday Big Boy!
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