The Parr Family: Happy Birthday Brayden!

Brayden turned 3 last Thursday! We had several celebrations during the week for his birthday. We started on Wednesday when I took cupcakes to MMO for a little "school party". He was very excited to have me at MMO with him, but he didn't believe me that we were doing it for his birthday : ) For weeks before, Greg and I kept telling him that his birthday was coming up, so he kept telling me it wasn't his birthday yet...it was coming up!

We had lunch with some friends at McDonald's on Thursday followed by a trip to Lowe's to look at the Halloween decorations that afternoon. (That is his FAVORITE thing to do lately and it's what he told us he wanted to do that day!!) We had dinner Thursday night at Pizza Inn with my parents and brother's family, follwed by cake and presents at our house. Brayden finally believed it was his birthday when he knew there were presents involved! He was very into opening them this year and loved everything he got, especially the Little Tikes from mommy and daddy. I think he had a little too much birthday celebration for the day, because he had a slight meltdown when Madeline, Lydia and Margo tried playing with his new things. He is usually a good sharer, but not that night. It was a sign that he is definitely 3 now!

Finally, on Saturday we had a Spiderman birthday party at our house. All of our family, friends and his friends from church came to help us celebrate. It was a perfect day for an outdoor party and everything went so well for such a large group. Brayden loved having all of his little friends at his house to play. Grammy made him an awesome Spiderman cake that I almost didn't even want to cut, it looked so good! The kids played, decorated Spiderman masks, watched a "magic show" from Lydia, ate pizza & cake, and watched Brayden open all of his presents. He got so many fun new toys, but his most favorite is the "Big Buzz Lightyear" from Grammy and Grampa that he had been asking for for weeks.