Thursday, January 31, 2013

Caleb Ryan - 3rd Birthday!

We celebrated Caleb's birthday on January 20th! I can't believe my little guy is three! This last year has gone by fast but in a lot of ways he is still the same little boy. His birthday was on a Sunday, so after church we went to my parents home and my dad cooked an amazing Mexican dinner for the family and then we celebrated Caleb with a Mickey Mouse party, one of his favorite shows and characters. I ordered the cutest Mickey Mouse cupcakes ever from our bakers at the clovis castle. Frosted Cakery is their business name, they are wonderful.  I brought them to share after dinner. Delicious chocolate cupcakes, Caleb is my chocolate lover, just like his mommy :) He loved opening his presents, all on his own of course.

Showing off his cupcakes, he was SO excited about them!
Totally cute!
Me and my birthday boy!
Party at Grandma's!
Blowing out his 3 candles :) He took the job very seriously
Monday we took him to Chuck-e-cheese so he could have some fun! He loves this place. Had to do the Chuck-e-cheese experience with one of our kids :) All my siblings and I had birthdays there at one point.  We had a great time and they serve a great birthday package: pizza, drinks, tokens for all the games and rides, a special personalized birthday show with Chucke, dessert, etc.The boys had a blast, and so did my siblings who I think had just as much fun receiving their tokens and playing the games ;)



Dancing up front with the birthday boy and chucke haha!
He was a little unsure about chucke, trying not to look at him, but he did shake his hand good-bye and wave from a distance
The TICKET BLASTER!!! Hilarious to watch. Caleb wouldn't go in without big brother. Perfect way to end the night. They got tons of tickets and were both able to pick out fun prizes.
Caleb's Stats:
- hands on little guy
-never stops moving
-always busy
-loves to fix things and work with his hands
-a great little helper, always trying to help and copy what we do
-Daddy's mini me
-very lovey and sweet and cuddly
-independent
-adores big brother
-instigator of fights with brother too
-loves lucky charms, pb&j's, chocolate anything,  and Italian food -not a big meat fan
-very stubborn, no discipline phases him :/
-loves to play with mommy, is always saying "mommy, play?"
- he is talking a lot now, though he still has a German dialect!
- he is called pappa by Jake- I guess it's a mexican thing he learned on his mission, now I call him that too
-grandpa Garduno calls him stagoots (Spelling?)
-loves to cook and bake with mommy, work with tools and fix things up with daddy
- not big on coloring, can't sit still for movies
-will sit to play with playdough :)
-currently being potty trained and big boy bed trained, yikes!
-loves his new bunk bed with brother
-loves his blanky, like brother, he calls it -- bem
-loves stuffed animals, he has to have all of them around him when he sleeps
-has no idea or care about baby sister, it will be interesting how his world is turned around when she arrives!
-has been babied,  because coming after Ryan he is the healer of my heart, my rainbow baby and always will be so special and unique to our family because of that.

Happy Birthday Caleb, we LOVE YOU SO MUCH! 




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