Toby Turns Three!

Unwrapping presents while Skyping with Grandma Arleen, Grandpa Dan & Kurt.

We were singing "Happy Birthday" to him. Toward the end, he joined in.

Yum, a cupcake and a big bowl of ice cream!

Thomas

Pretty serious about the unwrapping.

A phone call from Kate.

More unwrapping.

Today was Toby's birthday. He is three years old now. Or the way he pronounces it "I free!" Today was pretty much a normal day for Toby, but he did have two requests: he didn't want me to take him to daycare and he didn't want me to take him to a friends and leave him there. And, I didn't. We did go see a friend (VT), but when I left, so did he. We made a trip to the commissary where I filled a cart all the while only having approximately 10 items on my list. He had a meltdown while checking out because I wouldn't let him have any candy. Since it was his birthday, I probably should have given in, but I don't often reward meltdowns and tantrums like that. I bought him a new booster seat, as opposed to giving him Thomas' old one. This morning, I gladly swapped the booster seat for the car seat.

Toby fell asleep in the car on the way home from the commissary. I think he is hitting the point in his life where he will not always take an afternoon nap, but will probably still need one a couple times a week. Today was one of those days. He napped for quite a while and then Thomas came home from school. Thomas has been out of school for the past 3 weeks for Winter Break and today was his first day back at school, so Toby did ask about Thomas quite a bit today. He missed him.

Toby and Thomas played this evening while I picked up the house and made dinner. He got to Skype my parents and Kurt (my brother) while he opened their presents to him. I love modern-day technology. After that, he got a phone call from Grandma Sherry (James' mom) and Kate (my sister) Later on, we had our neighbors, the W family come over and have cupcakes, brownies and ice cream. Then our boys and their oldest son played together. Toby got a cool Hot Wheels track and some more Geo Trax train so our living room has been taken over!

Until later,

Emily