This little boy of mine turned three this past week. We have had so much fun celebrating him! I feel like such a lucky mom to have my Jack. The outfit in the above picture is one of his favorites. He regularly finds Addie's rain boots or his cowboy boots and puts them on to play. After watching more than our share of "Tangled" he has decided that he needs a satchel like Flynn Ryder. He'll be in the middle of playing, stop and say, "wait, where is my satchel?"Jack and Addie play so well these days. His ability to communicate is so nice! They play house mostly. Today they were using all of the birthday bags from Jack's party to pretend to "pack" for vacation and then load up in the recliner (aka "car"). For the past year Jack has called Addie "my Addie." I will be sad when he stops doing that.
He also still loves to play with cars, but has moved on to include action figures. Even Spiderman, whom he knows nothing about, is one of his favorites. He says he's a bad guy and loves to try to spar with his sister, which usually gets her upset.
We had a Cars 2 birthday party for him yesterday with a house full of 15 kids ages ranging from 3-7. All of Addie's friends love Jack, hence the older kids. They call him Jackie and love to make him laugh. I had fun planning the party. I made some little mini cakes of the Cars 2 characters and my dad and I decorated them. As I was looking at my destroyed kitchen complete with 10 different icing bags with different colors and tips, having spent what seemed like an eternity on each car I had to admit to myself the real truth: I would do just about anything for this kid! He's got his momma wrapped around his finger. :)
I put this little video together to show some of Jack's personality as well as his birthday party. The song I chose was "Godspeed" by the Dixie Chicks. This album came out in 2002, 6 years before Jack was born but I remember listening to it and dreaming of a little boy. I'm so grateful to have him in my life.
Untitled from Julie Berg on Vimeo.
