Birthday Boy!

Today we celebrated Kenner's actual b-day.

We had birthday waffles!

I got the Wii back out and let him play some Mariokart since it was his birthday afterall. He loves that game and we have to take it away occasionally because of his obsession with it and now when he has potty accidents. But for the day I decided I'd let him play some since I knew he'd enjoy doing that more than anything else.

I'm not sure I could tell you what Kenner's favorite meal is and he wasn't much help either. So, I just made something that he seems to like when I make it for dinner. Steak kabobs! Hmmm.

After dinner we were ready to open presents and have cake and icecream. Since we've been potty training I hardly dress him in "real" clothes much. So he wasn't really ready for b-day pics so I told him he needed to get dressed and he had to stop playing cars.

The result. . . .

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to . . .

Goodness, you'd think he'd be a bit more excited to have presents and cake. Side note: Like my pile of sheets and towels? I make him stand there to play incase any potty accident should occur.

Looking so big

Kenner was scared of the candles on his cake. He kept saying they were hot and he didn't want to be by them. I don't get this kid sometimes. So, we had quite the challenge getting him by his cake for a picture and to blow out the candles.

Eyeing the cake

Wayne finally had to sit with him and help out. Silly boy!

Opening presents

Showing off his gifts and trying to show he is 3 - uh not quite.

Trying again to get 3 fingers up, kinda hard.

His new liking for Cars stuff came at a good time right before his birthday. So, I was able to find him a few Cars things; a book, coloring pad, and magnet board thing. He also got some other games, books, and some more underwear!


Eating some icecream.

He wouldn't even eat the cake I made him. I think I am going to find another birthday treat option because Kenner doesn't seem to be a fan of cake. Wayne put some in his bowl and he wasn't too happy about that. So, I have alot more cake then Wayne and I can finish. Anyone want some?

Well, HAPPY BIRTHDAY Kenner, we love you and look forward to another year. It'll be fun to see what this year brings for him!

Pre-Birthday FUN!

Kenner will be turning the BIG 3 tomorrow (Sept. 2nd)! We decided to do a pre-birthday activity on Saturday and take him to Six Flags to go on some rides and to the water park before it closed for the season. We had a great day! Here's some, ok maybe alot of, pics of our day!

RIDES

I've been wanting to take Kenner on this little roller coaster the last couple times we've been at Six Flags but we never had until this day!

He's holding on to me for dear life (you might have to click on the picture to get it bigger so you can see his facial expression).


He didn't seem to fond of the ride, but when it stopped he didn't want to get off and asked for more. Silly boy! So, then he went and got on again with dad. They were lucky and got to go around 4 times. The ride operator only let me go around with him twice.

Let's do this again!

Wayne of course wouldn't let him hold on to him and kept trying to get him to put his arms up in the air.

The last go around he succeeded!

He loves this car ride but it's hard for him to get that pedal down so he can go anywhere.

This is how Myer past most of the time. He chews on everything and anything.

They had some of these boards with face cutouts by the rides we were going on. I thought it'd be fun to get a few pics with our faces in them. We don't have tv right now so were unable to watch the Olympics that I seemed to hear everyone talking about. So, this is about as far as our Olympic spirit got.

After Kenner saw Wayne making this face in the thing he went back and was trying to do the same face!

Catching a snack while we waited for the water park to open.



SWIMMING


Get ready . . . .
Yikes, it's gonna be cold

Ok, maybe it's not that bad
(i just hate getting wet for the first time)

Then Kenner got brave and started going down by himself

Wayne was enjoying taking some pictures throughout the park of different things he came across.

Here's a little squirrel Kenner spotted.



And some pretty flowers!




Well, we had a great day and look forward to cake, icecream, and PRESENTS tomorrow!

Brotherly Love!

Kenner and Myer are so cute together. I hope this is something that can continue as they get older but we shall see. A mother can ONLY hope.

But Myer loves to watch Kenner and gets excited when he plays and talks to him. The other day I came in to find them laying on the floor together. Then once I got the camera out it distracted them and I had to keep telling Kenner to lay back down by Myer and play. I finally caught a few pics of them together.

Ahhhh, he's attacking me!

Where's Kenner?

Oh, there he is!

Just a random picture that I thought maybe my mom and sister would want to see since I've talked to them before about Kenner's Speech therapist. This is Angela and we LOVED having her come into our home every week and help Kenner with his speech. She started coming soon after Myer was born about the first part of February. We had our last session this last week because Kenner will be turning 3 and the program she does with Easter Seals only goes until the age of 3. Kenner has improved alot since she started working with him and she helped us learn things to do with him to help. I'll miss visiting with her, I always looked forward to her visits as well! Now Kenner will start going to speech at the school twice a week until he reaches the level he should be at.