Happy 3rd Birthday to Henry!

So it was Henry's birthday weekend.  Grandma Carol and Grandpa came down for the party and we saw Santa.  Henry told Santa he wanted a Race Car Guitar, Vivian wants a Rapunzel Guitar and an American Girl doll. I will post the Santa picture once I find it....seems it got misplaced in the hustle and bustle of the weekend. When we walked into the store to see Santa it wasn't very busy so Santa could see us coming. Dan was pointing to where he was at so Santa started waving to the kids and they thought that was pretty neat.  They were smiling from ear to ear the whole way towards him.  Once we got up close it took a little coaxing to get them over to Santa. 

Henry had his birthday party on Sunday.  He invited 3 friends over.  Graham, who is in his Children's Day Out class, Hayes (Molly's brother), and Avery.  Vivian also invited Molly over too so that she had someone to play with during the party.  He was excited when we brought the balloons home, and the cake and when everyone started to show up! The boys who are all pretty close in age were perfectly content playing with the Thomas the Train sets we put up in the living room.  He got some great toys and has been playing with them all night.  For his actual birthday we don't have much planned.  Dan is going to come home from work and have lunch with us.  Vivian has dance tomorrow night so there isn't much time to go out to dinner.  Hard to believe he's already 3!

I posted a picture of the kids playing out in "snow" during our first dusting we had last week. You will see we didn't get much snow and Vivian asked several times if we could make a snowman.  The snow was pretty much melted before noon that day.  And pictures of kids in fake moustaches that we had in the grab bags for the kids to take home after the birthday party.

We have started a tradition this year of getting all of our Iowa friends together for Thanksgiving and Xmas.  We did Thanksgiving at Brian and Angie Mander's house.  Our friend Xmas party is this coming Friday at Thad and Nikki Pealer's house. Saturday night we have a babysitter so Dan and I can go and see the new Sherlock Holmes movie coming out this weekend.  I'm a huge fan of the other Sherlock Holmes movie and can't wait to see it.  Vivian and Henry have their last week of school this week until after the first of the year.  Gonna be a long few weeks, mostly for Vivian she really enjoys school.  They must be working on math cause every other day she says "mom did you know 5+5=10, 4+3=7, etc.  Let's hope she doesn't get my math skills. ;-)  Enjoy your week!