Collin's 3rd Birthday

Collin had a great time at his birthday party this morning. The following friends came to his pool party:

Mimi and Pappy
Grandma Filla
Grandma H
Timmy, Lisa, Paul and Dustin
Matthew, Jacob, Maria and Tony
Isa, John, Jenny and Jay
Jacob and Susan
Saige and Todd
Alex, Ellie, Chad and Diana

We swam first. Collin, Jacob and Alex where swimming in floats and decided to have a race in the pool. Jacob is REALLY competitive and kicked he way to the front each time. Collin still had a good time even though his float was losing air (maybe that is why he was last?). Everyone seemed to have fun in the pool. After about an hour, kids started getting out because they were hungry. Good, because I was ready with hot dogs, peanut butter jelly sandwiches, strawberries and grapes. I could not believe how quite it was when everyone was eating....especially with that many kids under 4 sitting around a table.



Then, it was time to sing Happy Birthday and for Collin to blow out his candle. As soon as we finished singing, Collin knew to blow his candle out. He had a cake with Mickey and Minnie Mouse on it plus a Monkey cupcake cake. Collin LOVES Mickey Mouse if you have not already figured that out yet, so the theme of his party was Mickey. Everyone left after eating cake and getting cleaned up. We did not open presents in front of his friends because 3 year olds don't understand that it's a present and not theirs just because they brought it.





Some of the kids hung out and destroyed Collin's play room in a matter of minutes. They were having a great time so why stress over it, right? Collin did help us clean his room up after everyone left.


We did open his present from Mimi and Pappy before they left. They gave him a grocery cart which he loves. He plays with Saige's cart every time he is at her house so now he has one of his own. Later, he opened most of his other presents. Toy Story themed toys were mainly what he got in addition to some puzzles and lots of books from us and Grandma H.

Here is a video of Collin opening some presents from us and Grandma H (that is her voice you hear in the background). He is MUCH better at opening gifts compared to last year. :)

Even after all of that activity, it still took me 30 minutes to get him to take a nap. He slept for less than 2 hours.