Henry's 3rd birthday, a day in review

This year, Henry's actual birthday fell on a Monday.  We started an ECFE class (Early Childhood Family Education) that morning, which Henry calls "school."  The teachers were so sweet.  When we got there and told them who we were, they knew that it was Henry's birthday that day, made him a birthday crown, and we sung to him as well.  It was a very nice welcome!  Our first day of "school" went great, looking forward to next week. 

Phil & I got Henry a new big-boy bike for his birthday.  We got him a balance bike, no pedals and no training wheels, his feet are his pedals.  It'll take some practice to get used to, but he'll get it!

He chose his favorite restaurant, McDonald's, for his birthday dinner - cheeseburger and fries, please!  No complaints from me, as I love me some McDonald's burgers and fries too.  I did manage to talk him into going to the Big Dipper for ice cream, where he enjoyed a scoop of 'birthday cake' ice cream.

construction machines

We kept is simple this year for Henry's birthday - burgers on the grill for lunch with the family, it really was nice.  We lucked out with beautiful weather outside, no complaints here!  Henry's absolutely loving "construction machines" of all kinds these days - excavators, dump trucks, road scrapers, you name it, he loves it!  So, I incorporated a "construction" theme into the day as well.  I made dirt cake (which Henry later called it 'dirt-day' cake, how fitting), Henry and Greta got to eat theirs out of their dump trucks, which they thought was pretty cool!

The singing of Happy Birthday :)

The candles are out!

Somebody loved the worms after she found out "they were just squishy worms, not real ones."

After lunch, we tried to get a few family pics (which is a difficult task in itself)! 

Oma & Opa

Grandma & Grandpa

Auntie Sonja

first fish

The neighbor boys have been raving about the number of fish they've been catching off the bridges in our lakes lately, so Henry wanted to get in on all the action.  Phil wormed up Henry's new fishing rod for him this past weekend and we walked down the block to the bridge.  His line wasn't in more than 10 seconds and this is what he had on it, a real whopper - his first fish!  Henry gave it one small "pet", then Phil threw it back and it swam away happily :)

Happy Birthday to Henry

Three years ago today, WOW!

Happy Father's Day

bowling buddies

Can't you just picture these two being in a bowling league down the road some day?  On this rainy and cold morning, we met up with Harrison & Becky so the boys could get their bowl on :)  Toddler bowling shoes really are quite adorable.   

Complete with a ramp and bumpers, Henry & Harrison bowled a mean game.  They were the only two bowlers in the whole alley, it was great, we had the place to ourselves!  They both carried their orange ball to ramp by themselves each time and nobody walked away with any injuries, success :)  Harrison even bowled a strike once, no joke!

Twins vs Mariners

Phil took Henry & I to the Twins game on Saturday.  It was Henry's 2nd game that he's been to, the first one he lasted 3 innings and this time around I think we made it 5 or 6 innings - progress!  We had some good ballpark food and a great view of the game.  Apparently we missed a good Twins walk-off game winner in the end!

Working on his swing with Harmon Killebrew out on the plaza :)

Flashback to Henry's 1st Twins game - about 13 months old here!