Yesterday Mommy took me to Cheekwood Botanical Gardens to see the Scarecrow display and to get some good pictures of me. But her camera battery died! Believe me, she missed some great shots. Here are a few she got before the tragedy.

"Axl Crows" This was my favorite scarecrow because he had a guitar!

Herbie the Hare

Today, Mommy took cupcakes to my class for my birthday. They had blue frosting (my favorite color)


This is my teacher "Ms. Beth". She is a wonderful preschool teacher. I like it when she reads to us .

This is our reading circle.

Today is My THIRD Birthday!

For my birthday, I got to do lots of things I love. I went to ToysRus and Chuck E Cheese's. I ate birthday cake and opened presents from my family. Thank you everybody for the presents!

Happy Third Birthday to Me!

Today I celebrated my third birthday with a Monkey-themed party.

Mommy went a little ape with the decorations.

There's an episode of "Curious George" (my favorite show) where George paints a room in Mr. Glass's apartment building to look like a jungle. So, when my friends arrived, we finger painted on the wall.

While my friends painted, I preferred dancing to the music.

From left to right: Will, Brayden, Drew, David, Ben, Lucy and Carson.

Then, Daddy set up the target he'd made for my first birthday and we threw water balloons at it.

Daddy taught us how to "ambush" the target by each having our hands filled with water balloons and charging to the target while screaming. So now I call the game "a bush". It was fun.




















It was very hot outside so we went back in to play a Curious George game like Pin the tail on the donkey (not pictured) and "Banana Toss" where you try to ring a grocery cart with bananas. That's my friend Drew getting ready to toss the banana.

While my friends played the banana toss, I preferred playing my keyboard. (You might notice that daddy is pretty wet from the water balloon game. He's wearing one of two monkey shirts he owns. It says, "Who Flung Poo".)








Next it was time for lunch. "Monkey Tails" (Hot dogs) were served. That's my playgroup friend David next to me.

Mommy made my monkey cake.
Next it was time for PRESENTS. By this point in the party, I'm getting a little overwhelmed. But, now that the party is over, I sure am having fun playing with my new games! (And watching the video daddy made of the party over and over.)




"It's my party and I'll cry if I want to!"

PS -- I'd like to give a shout out to my neighbor Keeli Mullican who could not be at my party because she is in China bringing home her newly adopted sister. And another shout out to my friend Caroline who lives in Florida. A special thank you to Lucy for being my token girl guest!

Later that day ... our neighborhood had a block party. Here's me and Lucy in a bounce house.

Here's me and Lucy sitting on a blanket and listening to a band.

My Third Birthday was a BIG day.

Here are a few pictures from my party that Mommy is including for Mimi because Mimi likes to see Mommy's decorations. Mommy moved the monkey clock from my room and put letters around it that spelled "Party Time" on one of the walls. There was a Curious George birthday banner at the top and Mommy used "Curious George" Uno cards that my Aunt Amy gave me last Christmas to decorate above the bead board.
Mommy took pages from a Classic Curious George calendar and decorated the walls. She tied helium balloons to bananas and there's a gorilla in a "cage" on the other side along with my "Brayden train".

The green streamers behind Mommy are supposed to be vines and that's Curious George swinging from one.

My First Day of Preschool!

Mustard Seed Preschool

Me and my friend Will during Devotion time.

Ms. Diana and Ms. Vickie singing songs.