Somebody's 3!

For Tyson's 3rd birthday this year, we took him to a place called, The Amazing Pizza Machine. It's a pizza buffet with a ton of different arcade games, mini golf...etc. It was quite fun and Tyson took full advantage of the fact that we let him eat junk. Take those two drinks for instance...one is a slurpy and the other fruit punch I think... He decided it was best to try them together at the same time. Wow. I brought cupcakes for desset and he loved being sung the Happy Birthday song!Tyson loves his Uncle Sean (Scott's younger brother) who lives/works out here in Omaha and he brought some fun presents for Tyson. Tyson enjoyed playing all the games he could and collecting the tickets!The boys took the game playing seriously. This was in the kiddy section and all it was, was a big goofy horse with huge teeth that you tried to knock down with little balls. You don't quite get that vibe based on the picture.Camille was a trooper and just happy to be along for the ride. She's sure is pretty easy!The next morning, on his actually birthday, we opened presents. Here he is getting Candyland....we've played it over and over again. He got a pillow pet!! He really wanted a bee despite my attempts to get him to pick the dog. I think he likes it!Camille gave him a little robot to go with his robot dog from potty training.Dad took him to pick out his very own balloons that morning! He was jealous of the ones I got earlier for my birthday and loved having his very own to knock around. They were a hit with Camille too!

Don't laugh too hard at my cake. It was pretty impressive to a three year old boy:) Happy Birthday Tyson! We sure love your quirky, fun, big personality in our family!

Fun facts about Tyson:

At his 3 year check up he was 41 1/4 inches tall and weighs 43 lbs. Yowser! He had to get 3 shots in his leg but was really brave and just cried a little. However he did limp around the rest of the day, telling me the doctor hurt his leg.

Recent sayings:

Dad: Tyson, I need a special helper...

Tyson: Mom's a good helper.

Dad: Who are Nephi's brothers?

Tyson: Laman-ade.

(Having a discussion with Tyson about prayer.)

Dad: Tyson you have a Father in Heaven

Tyson: Ohhh....like Hercules??

A little while ago I was upstairs in my room with Camille trying to find a quiet space to feed her and put her to sleep. Sure enough Tyson comes up and starts chatting up a storm. I told him to go downstairs and I'll be there in a minute. He proceeds to walk down and I hear a thud thud thud...and knew he had fallen down the first set of stairs onto the landing. And then I heard a big "Ugghhhh" from him. He comes back up slowly and sighing the whole way. He walks back in saying, "I really hurt" and puts his head on my lap. He sits there quiet for a second and then says, "Ok, I try again!" and walks back out. I about died laughing. He was just so matter-a-fact about it all, that it was too funny.