Ben is 3

Ben's 3rd birthday started out with CHOCOLATE waffles (at his request), followed by a visit to a clinic to diagnose his ear infection and start antibiotics. After that, we headed to...
the Choo Choo restaurant with our friends Karen, Dayton, Anna, and Karen's parents Randy and Norma. It was a blast!!! Ben got a special birthday song sung to him (he is trying to hide from the attention in this photo) and a wonderful cupcake with a train whistle on top.
Here are Ben and Anna enjoying one anothers' company....
In the evening, we celebrated with Auntie Kim. She granted Ben's only birthday wish: a mint-chip, blueberry, M&M, ice cream house cake. WOW!!! She put a lot of work into a splendid cake. You should have seen his eyes light up!
Ben is 3. Wow. Time sure does fly. It really is so hard to believe. He is such a little man now. He is such a talker, an inventor, curious, smart, and delightful. He (still) loves to play with water, assemble things, "buckle things up", be outside, take apart and put together things like flashlights, and asks "why" about everything. He is pretty well potty-trained and like every warm-blooded guy likes to "baptize" things like the wastebasket, the bathtub, or anything outside :) We're still working on "number 2"...I hear that comes later. We're so glad he's in our life, he constantly makes us laugh and occasionally groan in exasperation! Happy birthday, my sweet, sweet boy.