3rd birthday success!

When I woke Xavier up on his birthday I said, "Happy  Birthday Xavier" and his response was, "Can I eat my Happy Birthday now?"  Gotta love this little guy!  Birthday = Cake!  The funny thing about Xavier and cake is that he pretty much only likes to eat the icing.  He will have a bite or maybe two of the actual cake, but he really just wants the icing.  I find this extremely funny because my least favorite part of cake is the icing.  I like a little, but I seem to always be scraping half if it off before eating the cake.  Xavier and I are the ideal cake eating buddies, he shovels in the icing and I dig into the cake!

Its a dump truck!!! 

Xavier was super excited about his new dump truck and could not wait to take it down to Geema & Papa's and try it out at dig-a-hole. His expression absolutely cracks me up, "its a dump TRUUUUCCCKKKKK."

Its a bulldozer!  Xavier's Great Aunt Nancy and Great Uncle Stan sent Xavier a big bulldozer for his birthday!  When the delivery truck dropped off the package Xavier was still napping, so when he woke up and made his way downstairs there was this huge box sitting in the middle of the floor.  Xavier asked what was in the box and I said, "I don't know, but it is for you, should we open it?"  He did his little excited dance and we sat down to open the box and what do you know there was a wrapped present in the box, Xavier torn into it and about freaked out over the bulldozer (more happy dancing and rolling around on the floor).  As you can see he was super duper excited to pull it out of the box and then we of course had to tromp down to Geema & Papa's to dig-a-hole to do a little pushing of dirt and then we hit the sand pile for more digging.  The bulldozer then came back up to the house and had to come inside for the night.  First thing on Friday morning when daddy got home from work and walked in the door, Xavier pulled back out the bulldozer and asked Daddy to take him down to dig-a-hole (and yes, Xavier refers to it as dig-a-hole) to dig with the "new bulldozer Aunt Nanccccccccccccyyyyyy and Uncle Stan sent him." 

Xavier geeked out over his birthday cake made by Linda Ward (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cakes-by-Linda).  Linda makes amazing cakes, absolutely amazing cakes-they are so yummy and the icing is amazing (this is coming from someone who does not really like icing!)  The digger themed cake was 100% a hit with Xavier and he kept trying to take the diggers off the cake. 

Xavier loves the Happy Birthday Song, he was so excited when everyone started singing it and he joined right in and sang along and then clapped and kept saying, "good song, good song"  Xavier is a big fan of the birthday song!  

Blowing out all 3 of his candles...maybe next year we will bust out the trick candles-hehehehe!

Digging into the green icing.  Xavier pretty much cleaned this piece of cake of all icing and left the actual cake.  He was a big fan of the green icing.  He had a green mouth and lips for hours after eating all the green icing. 

A fishing pole from Ricky!  Definite hit with Xavier. 

'sleeping' in his new tent and tunnel that Aunt Sue gave him.  He keep crawling through the tunnel and would pop out the other side and say "I made it through the mountain"  And back in he would go and pop out the other side.  Unfortunately the tent had a bent pole and is having to be taken back, this caused major melt down because the tent would not stay up and he could not 'sleep' in it.  He stayed in the tent even after it slide down on him and then he wormed his head out and said, "mommy fix it" I am thinking that the big tent will be making an appearance in our yard sometime this summer. 
Thanks to everyone for helping make Xavier's 3rd birthday such a success!  He had a blast, we had a blast and we hope everyone else had a blast too! 

Spring Happenings

Warmer Weather means we spend all day outside.  With the time change Xavier's outstide play time seems to have tripled and it is all we can do to get him to come in for dinner and bath time.  When he woke up this morning he told me that it was the morning because the birds were signing.  Gotta love our little outdoors fellow.  Below are some pictures of the last month.

Warmer Weather means smoothie making has come back to the Fish household.  Obvioulsy Xavir was a fan of the smooth.

Xavier and his serious face.

Whenever we go grocery shopping and if Xavier has been good in the store he gets a little treat.  That treat is almost always a big chocolate muffin.  He is extremely picky about which muffin he picks.  He points to the one with the "crunchiest" top.  I always have to vaccum the carseat after grocery shopping!

Kite flying with Jeremiah, Kyra and Kelly! 

Helping to get the kite back into the air.

Having so much fun!!!

Helping daddy paint the bee hives.

He figures out how to pop my truck and climbed right on in!

Roasting hot dogs with Papa. 

Preparing for the Easter Bunny.  Bunny cup and Jelly beans!  Thank you Target for having everything displayed right when you come in the store...

SNOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Officially we love snow!  Xavier likes all the WHITE SNOW.  He kept saying how much he loves all that white snow.  His voice gets a little higher as he starts talking about it.  He kept saying things like, "I'm just running in the snow."  "I'm just sitting in the snow/standing in the snow.."  But the best of all is when he is "just chopping the snow"  He uses a great karate chop motion and says "yah"  We went all around the yard chopping the snow, "yah" "yah" "yah".  gotta love the little guy! 

As many of you know, Xavier is all about digging, he has a great big dirt pile down at my parents house.  We typically hit up "dig a hole" at least once a day, good weather and bad.  The days that is rains, we dig marbles inside.  We are serious about our digging, digging snow is a new activity and we spent a good bit of time at "dig a hole" with our front end loaders to do a little snow removal. 

When I dropped Xavier off at my parents this morning before I went to work, Xavier stood at the door and told Papa, "Papa, come out and dig in the WHITE SNOW"  You gotta love this little guys dedication to his digging site. 

Here are two really cute pictures from our snow adventures yesterday!  Xavier stopped long enough in his chopping to take a pictures with daddy, which he then said to Jeremiah, "that was a good one."

 After a fun filled afternoon of playing in the snow, digging up some snow, chopping some snow and warming up with Papa by running around the house, we got bundled back up and headed back up the hill for dinner and bath time.  As we were walking back up the hill Xavier leaned into Jeremiah and said, "I love you daddy" and gave Jeremiah a nice long hard nose and proceeded to tell Jeremiah that is is nice and warm in here!!!   We had to stop walking so that I could get in the cocoon too.  Melts the heart!

Pity Party, Table for One!

Last night as I was leaving work, I slipped and skinned my knee.  I pretty much thought I was going to pass out and all I could think was Autum, get up and make it to your car because if you pass out in the parking lot someone is going to run over you.  So I hobble over to my car and get in and look down at my knee to my horror not only did I skin my knew, but I also created a beautiful knee skinned hole in my FAVORITE black pants!  This is probably more tragic than the actual skinned knee.  That will heal, I will never be able to replace these pants.  I have tried for many years to find them again or at least find a replacement, but to no avail.
So on the way home from work as my knee is throbbing and I was ticked about my pants I started my pity party.  When I got home I cracked open a box of girl scout cookies and preceded to consume them at a rapid rate.  This made me feel a bit better and helped as I had to pick asphalt out of my knee.  Skinned knees are for the birds, they stink, your knee gets soar and it hurts to walk, thankfully the majority of my skinned knees happened when I was a little kid, I just don't remember them being so painful (granted it could be because I have passed the young person category and moved onto middle aged??). 
So as I am sitting there eating my cookies I see this little bugger come to the door

He came in and sat on the couch with me and asked me if I had a boo-boo on my knee, gave me a big hug, a kiss and a hard nose (hard noses are a big deal in our family currently, this is when Xavier comes up to give you an Eskimo kiss, but opens his eyes real wide and pushes his nose on your nose hard).  How can I continue my pity party after that?  Couldn't, I just gave up feeling bad for myself.  Then Xavier pulled up his pants leg and showed me his skinned knee and told me his boo-boo hurt too.

So in love with my little guy!