He has grown so much this last year and has become a sensitive, kind, intelligent little boy! I'll save the details for his official 3 years post, but this is what we did for his birthday!
I find it hard to have the energy for his birthday. We've been out doing people-y things almost every day for the last week, and we're all tuckered out. It's hard to plan something big as well because everyone has Christmas parties and plans. That being said, Dom had most of his favorite people over yesterday to celebrate with him! We were planning to have our families over for dinner and cupcakes in the evening, but the day before my mom suggested splitting it up between a breakfast and dinner.
My parents, Opa and Oma G, and Adam and Aly came over yesterday morning for crepes. Mom and Dad brought the fixings and made them, which was really nice. We put a candle in Dom's crepe and sang Happy Birthday. He unwrapped some special gifts, including a puzzle, some nice clothes, a RC Corvette, and a scooter! For the last 5 months when you asked him what he wanted for Christmas, he said a scooter. Not sure how he even knows what a scooter is! Haha. It'll be a long while before he can ride it independently, but he still likes to push it around the house. The RC Corvette has gotten lots of use already (mostly by David). Dom is also obsessed with it, though! After breakfast Henry & Katrina dropped by to say Happy Birthday and give D a couple gifts. Nice surprise! Dom was a little overwhelmed already, but he secretly appreciated it haha!
You can see how tired he was already; his eyes are all puffy.
Her "Cheeeeeeese!" face.
Thank you to Adam and Aly for providing our coffee fixings!
This drill is part of a tool set Dom got for Christmas. It's almost always in one of their hands.
Blowing out the candle in his birthday pancake :)
He is so good at puzzles. Once he got started on this one he got in the zone and flew through it. Part of the reason he hardly acknowledged Henry was because he was in the final row of the puzzle when they came in! Haha
After everyone left I made a batch of chili for the crock pot, and then Dom and I made cupcakes together. He really wanted chocolate cupcakes with blue icing. I did my best haha. I am not a baker; I'd much rather cook! During quiet time I made some buttercream icing that actually turned out really yummy! I sloppily spread it on the cupcakes and then found a few tiny boxes of smarties in the cupboard and used those to put 3 on each cupcake. Again, not cute, but sufficed for a 3 year old! Haha
They've got this part down pat!
Yesterday was the first day this week he decided not to nap at all. He's been sick so sleep has been a priority for him. Yesterday he played for 2 hours in his room. I think the introvert time was needed, but it didn't refresh him as much as sleep would have!
We had David's family and Scott and Ashleigh over for dinner, and quickly realized it was more people than we've ever tried to squeeze around the table! We had 10 adults and 3 kids. Every bite of chili went, and all the buns were gobbled up. Dom didn't really eat his chili, but he was so exhausted already I didn't expect much out of him.
We sort of spread gifts out over the evening, but again he was spoiled. I don't even know what to do with all these toys and stuff! He got a Hot Wheels body pillow, Hot Wheels cars, homemade mini hockey sticks, and a basketball hoop! He was super excited to play some ball, and Rebecca was right in there which was too cute. She sure holds her own!
Grandpa using Dom's tools to fix Dom
Dom using his tools to fix his Corvette
Our house is inundated with fun colorful toys! It literally looks like a toy store in here!
The hoop reveal! Funny story about the hoop... It was in the spare room at Dave's parents' house for weeks. About a week and a half ago, we're eating dinner at their place and we hear a faint, "Daddy.... daddyyyyyy...." Dave goes down and sees Dom standing in the doorway of that room staring at the hoop, "Daddy... a basketball hoop!!!!" Surprise was no more, so they brought it out and played with it for the evening. We went home and didn't mention it again. I guess he forgot about it! It's actually nice that he got to play with it before, because he knew exactly what to do/expect when it got brought in last night!
So happy to share with his cousin <3
And then there's this... what a scary face Emilia! If you look closely at one of these pictures you might be able to see that it looks like she chipped one of her teeth. Her top right of the front four has a little nick out of the side. I have no idea if she chipped it or if it's just an odd shape.
Such form.
Got Dom's agent on the phone to report his next dunk!
We had a 3 sparkler from many years ago. We found it in the bottom of a Christmas box before we even got pregnant with Dom. I just held on to it because I figured someday it would come in handy. Then this Christmas I found it again and realized we can use it for Dom's birthday!! Time flies! He was overwhelmed and just stared at the sparkler, and then didn't want to blow out the candle, but he was quite excited about eating the cupcake! Haha
This face accurately depicts how he was feeling for sure haha
Just before 7 Emilia let me know it was time for bed. She crawled up here and said, "Night!"
Dom was not far behind.
Thank you so much to everyone for helping us to make Dom's birthday special!
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