First Shave

He's three now. It's time to start shaving those whiskers! Beckett got a (pretend) shaving kit for his birthday, so we tried it out. I took a ridiculous amount of pictures, just because it was so much fun. He absolutely loved it and thought that it was so cool to be able to "shave like Daddy"!

Thomas the Train Party, Part III

Thomas the Train Party, Part II

Aunt Nicky and Uncle Andrew bought Beckett this cool Ziggle

Thomas the Train Party, Part I

Choo choo! Beckett's third birthday party was a Thomas the Train theme. If you know him at all, you know that he is obsessed with Thomas and trains in general. He is still at the age where his friends are the kids of our friends, and many of our close friends have little girls. So this year he was the only boy at the party. (I could only handle one train critique at the party anyways). They all pretended to love trains for the day and we had a blast! Maybe next year we will invite some boys, too. 

                           

Fun with train whistles and Thomas bubbles

Basketball, fun marching games with Uncle Mark, and scrubbing the
chair with bubbles. Who knew that cleaning would be
 one of the favorite activities of the party? 

Painting their initials

Uncle Mark drew chalk outlines around all of the kids

Beautiful self portraits of the kids ;) 

Aunt Nicky helped Beckett trace Mark

SC Surprise

In March, my mom planned a trip for Beckett and me to surprise my Dad for his birthday. Blake was gone during March Madness, so we picked up and headed to South Carolina.

We had a snow storm in Oklahoma the day before we left.
We were ready for some warmer weather!

Birthday cupcakes for Grandaddy's birthday.

Grandaddy and Beckett had so much fun together.

Uncle Stephen raced Beckett on his motorcycle...with his car.
Redneck accident waiting to happen.

Beckett tried boiled peanuts for the first time and actually liked them
(proud Momma here) and slept in a big boy bed for the first time.

We visited the zoo with Aunt Serah and Kaki.

Then, our friend Sarah visited and we went to the zoo again. 

Aunt Serah and Uncle Chad got a new black lab. She is so fun much fun.
They also started breeding Golden Retrievers. So cute! 

Aunt Serah and Uncle Chad also have a pretty big fish pond. They let you
 and Grandaddy feed the fish and use the net to clean it out.
You thought you were pretty special.

It was so much fun having the whole family together. 

Easter 2014

We had a busy Easter. We attended church in the morning and Blake and I helped with the kids. I snapped a few quick pictures of these cuties in their Easter attire. After church, we went over to Blake's Aunt's house and spent time with some family members that we don't get to see very often. We had a great time and enjoyed a fun Easter egg hunt. Beckett has some really great older cousins who are so sweet to him. 

   

Minion Misunderstandings and Cake Chaos

So, here's a funny story. I still don't find it funny, but maybe one day I will. Beckett loves the minions from Despicable Me. Does he love the movie? No. Just the minions. I'm not sure how this all started, but my brother won a big stuffed minion from the fair about a year and a half ago. Beckett really enjoyed playing with it and carrying it around the house. Then, my mom bought him minion underwear for Christmas (I'm not going to lie, we have had so many laughs over this underwear. It's funny to walk around the house with those two little eyeballs on his bum staring me down...see pic below). 

Since the minion undies are his fave (he loves them even more than the Thomas underwear), I promised him that after he was finished potty training, we would have a "potty party" and make him a minion cake or cupcakes. The boy doesn't forget anything, so I should have known that he was going to hold me to that. So...I set myself up for that one. And yes, we are finished potty training and I was planning to have a minion cake...well, one day. 

His birthday came and went and there was no minion cake. I didn't realize that this was what he was expecting for his birthday cake. We originally had our community group on the day of his birthday, and since our Sundays are usually packed, I was going to just swing by and pick up a funky birthday cake from Walmart and call it done. Our community group got cancelled for the night, and it was cold and rainy, so we just decided to bake the brownies that I had in the pantry and cut it to look like chocolate cake. All good parents say "*gasp*...lame." But that's not the worst part. I didn't realize that the brownies were actually mini muffins, so that threw the cake idea out the window. Still not the worst part. We thought we had left over birthday candles from last year, but of course, we didn't. So, I found a tea light candle and set it on top of the mini brownie and we sang happy birthday with guilt. As I tucked him in, he let me know that all he wanted for his birthday was a minion cake (with one eye) and that we gave him cake, but without the minions. He doesn't usually ask for much, so I really did feel guilty. He was so disappointed and just kept saying "I really really wanted a minion cake, but I didn't get it. Not this time." *Cue well deserved mom guilt*

I didn't plan to be one of those moms who make their kids birthday cakes (I have nothing but total respect for them, and both my mom and Blake's mom were great at it). I didn't want to be that mom because it's too much work for a non-creative mother. However, that night after I listened to his sob story, I told Blake that I had to get up early to run to the grocery store for all of the supplies for a minion cake. I couldn't live with the guilt, so I threw together a cake so that we could have a real birthday celebration that night. Whew. Motherhood card saved, at least for the moment. 

Needless to say, his birthday party is coming up and I haven't decided whether or not I will buy his cake or try to make it myself.