3 years old!

Guess who just turned three!

We had fun celebrating Dawson the week of his birthday.

We started off the day with a Phineas and Ferb birthday card.

It had an inflatable guitar inside!

Then we opened a few presents.

Here he is with some new cars to add to his ever growing collection.

He loved the batman balloons hanging from his door.

Then it was off to IHOP for one of (if not) his favorite meals - PANCAKES!

(We were too busy eating to pose for pictures.)

Of course I had to do a test run of the cupcakes I would be making on

Sunday for his birthday lunch.

They became our after dinner treat. 

  Blow out your candles!

Time for bed, birthday boy.

bedtime story with daddy.

Sunday came...

now to celebrate with friends!

His repeated request was for a Batman cake.

Simple and relatively easy.

I just printed out the batman symbol and traced it on top of

some black (pre made) fondant.

Add his batman figurine to homemade yellow icing...

Wah lah!

A batman cake.

And I must say, it tasted quite amazing!

Chocolate Applesauce Cake with Butter Cream Cheese Icing.

oh. my. goodness.

Sooo yummy!

Kind of looks like batman is trudging through yellow snow, huh?

But hey, Dawson loved it and it tasted good.

Isn't that what counts?

I had a fun week celebrating you,

Dawson.

My first born.

I love you, sweet boy.

You have changed my life forever.

I love your sensitive heart,

your huge smile,

and those sweet curls.

So thankful for your life.

Thankful to be your mommy.

in between.

oh my goodness.

it's been too long since i last posted.

the little man's arrival has been quite an adjustment

and just now we are getting into some kind of routine.

(well, more or less.)

but in between

the feedings

and cooking,

and cleaning up messes,

and just being with my boys,

i've managed to capture a few

moments with them.

here's a morning with some play dough.

his "tower"... that he is also slicing in two.

we've been

watching little brother

do new things.

like roll over.

and coo and babble.

and punch animals dangling from his activity mat.

here he is

on his 2 month old birthday.

sept 25.

we took a road trip to see my sweet sister

and celebrate the birth of her own little one.

my mom, my sister and liam.

we've partied when daddy is home.

those times are our favorites of the day.

there is always a sigh of relief when

we hear the door open and we see his face.

he's our super hero.

his special power is saving us me from our busyness

and task mode.

i confess, i resist often

and see his presence a lot of times as a way to 

actually get MORE things done.

but on the days that i actually stop

and make the most of him being with us,

i get to capture moments like this:

so thankful for those 

"in between" moments.