We are Three!

We are having record snowfall amounts this season. We have already reached the average snow amount (55 inches) for the entire season and it is still January! Snow piled up on the driveway.
Not our mailbox, but I thought it was pretty funny.

Opening gifts at the party

Luke got a Woody doll and Liam got a Buzz doll, we love Toy story right now!

AJ eating cake at the party

This is how it started....

Mmmm Cake

Lunch with pizza and cake

Blowing out the candles

Jump, Jump!

The whole gang, well sort of. Its hard to get a picture with everyone

AJ enjoyed the party

Luke and Liam celebrated their 3rd Birthday on Tuesday. We met John for lunch and then Liam had a doctor's appointment to get his cast removed. His hand is healing well; however, the doctor felt that he may have actually broken three fingers rather than one. He is still wearing a splint periodically for a few more days, but doing well.

On Saturday, the boys had their birthday party. This was our first big party with friends. We had a family party when they turned a year old and celebrated with Calvin while we were in Arkansas over Christmas. Their second birthday party was postponed due to Aiden's birth. We originally planned to celebrate with a small group of close friends on Saturday, Jan. 2nd but Aiden's arrival postponed that a few days. This year we had a party at Pump it Up with some of our neighbors and twin friends. The boys had a great time and seemed to understand more about birthdays this year. They couldn't wait for the cake and the presents!

Another big milestone was giving up our pacifiers this week. We had previously given them up with the exception of night time and naps; however, we have been telling Luke and Liam that when they turned three we would give them up entirely. Luke kept reminding us, "I am not a big boy, I am only two" when we reminded him about the pacifier date. On Wednesday after their 3rd birthday, we gave them up and the boys did relatively well and much better than expected. Luke had a bit of a harder time so I suggested we take them to Build A Bear and we would put his paci inside of a bear. The boys did not like the idea of throwing them away or cutting them off so we thought this would be a good solution. I took all three boys on Friday to Build A Bear so Luke and Liam could pick out a bear and put their pacifiers inside. The funny part of this is that when John got home that evening he was feeling the bear and trying to find the pacifiers. He quickly found Liam's, but neither of us could find Luke's though I assured him that I had watched the boys put them in the bears. On Sunday, we finally found Luke's pacifier and it was not in his bear. Actually, it was in Liam's bear! Both pacifiers somehow ended up in Liam's bear despite our efforts to do this for Luke. Neither of the boys know about it and have not really said anything about the pacifiers so John and I consider ourselves fortunate and as John pointed out, at least we only need to keep up with one bear now because only one of them holds the pacifiers! I am still not sure I see the humor in that considering the effort to get those bears with the boys.