Blogging protocol would suggest that I finish my Florida series of posts before I switch to a different topic - However I interrupt the regular scheduled posts and bring you Sam’s birthday.  My baby turned 3 today!  We had such a fun day celebrating, especially since it was a Saturday and had Nate and Magei home with us.  We surprised Sam with a Mickey Mouse theme since he has been totally obsessed since we got back from Disney World.  I was laying in bed this morning when I heard Sam get up and go out into the living room and exclaim “WOW!” when he saw his decorations and presents.

I made Sam a birthday hat out of felt to go with his Mickey ears.  He  thought that was awesome and wore it around all day.

I also had these cute little Mickey decals to put on his presents.  Magei claimed these the second she laid eyes on them.  I’m sure we’ll see them popping up in her creations soon enough.

Magei also got in on the decorating.  The popcicle stick looking things are streamers.  She made this for Sam’s door:

And this for the living room:

We let Sam open one present right away, and he was super excited to get a new Mickey Mouse shirt to wear on his big day!

Sam begged me for days to make him a wand for his birthday party, so this is what he got:

Next, it was off to Krispy Kreme for donuts and chocolate milk for breakfast…Sam was still insisting on wearing his party hat.

Sam’s dream came true and he actually got to play outside in the snow this afternoon since Nate was home.  He was so sad when I made him come inside!  We had his official party this evening.  “Party” is a relative term in this case, since it was just the four of us.  Unfortunately, that’s how it rolls when your birthday is a week after a slew a holidays and mom is tired!  At Sam’s request we had pizza and breadsticks.  We brought out the Mickey pizza plates for the occasion.

Sam waited patiently while we sang him some birthday songs, but finally it was time to open presents!

After presents, there was more singing and then cake and ice cream.  I made the Mickey heads for these oversized cupcakes by dipping regular sized oreos and mini oreos in chocolate.

We finished off the party by playing with all of Sam’s cool new toys!  Especially fun: the new Toy Story Mania wii game!  I asked Sam what he was most looking forward to about being 3.  He said sitting on the potty.  At this point, I think he’s lying because I have yet to see any evidence that he’s taking this potty training thing seriously.  Happy Birthday Sam!!!

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