Happy Birthday Patrick!

My precious Patrick turned 3 years old on Wednesday!  How is he already 3 years old!?!? He looks so big I can hardly stand it!

Michael and I have taken off Patrick's birthday each year and have a day filled with fun activities.  It is always one of my favorite days of the year because we play all day! The past two years we have gone to Loveless for breakfast, but restaurants are not really Patrick's cup of tea since he is such a picky eater. So this year we decided to change it up a little bit and start Peyton's birthday off at Loveless (which is much more fitting for his personality) and celebrate Patrick with donuts at the park. I asked Patrick the day before his birthday if he would rather go to a restaurant or eat donuts at the park (already knowing the answer :)). Without hesitation he started jumping up and down and saying "donuts at the park, donuts at the park!"

 

It was a beautiful day so we packed the car and headed to the park to eat donuts and play first thing in the morning. When we drove to Margaret's house to drop off Peyton, Patrick said that we could not drop off baby and that baby had to come to the park to celebrate his birthday…..melted my heart! I pray that these two will be the best of friends some day! 

Ready for donuts at the park. "I eat donuts, they make my tummy happy!"

Patrick only eats the top of the donut (aka the frosting) so whenever we get donuts he eats the frosting off about 3 of them!

Grumps joined us at the park 

Peyton had fun walking around the park too

Brothers at the park

Next on the agenda was Bounce U.  We asked Patrick whether he would rather go to the zoo or a bouncy house and he chose the bouncy house.  They had pre-school jump time from 10-12 and we happened to be the only people there for the entire two hours! Patrick was a little nervous at first, but then he warmed right up and ran around and jumped and played for the entire two hours! Mom and dad  jumped and played too and we were exhausted afterwards!

Hitting baseballs which he was surprisingly really good at!

Next up was the slide, which we probably went down 100 times.  I don't think I am exaggerating, we literally went down it 100 times and Patrick had the biggest smile on his face every single time!

He insisted that mom or dad go with him each time, since it was more fun that way :)

Michael's turns were a little more rough than mine, which Patrick thought was way more fun!



He was pretty upset to leave the bouncy house, can you tell?

After the bounce house we asked Patrick where he wanted to eat lunch and he said "the shoe." Michael and I both asked a few times and finally figured out he was talking about the zoo! We both couldn't say no to that precious little voice asking if he could go see the Tigers and Zebra's at "the shoe," so since we were pretty close, we headed to the zoo. The zoo was PACKED! We were surprised it was so packed at 12:30pm on a Wednesday.  Patrick was most excited about seeing the Tigers and Zebras. He kept asking to see more animals. It was pretty cute.  It was 80 degrees outside and very hot so we decided it was time to head to lunch after about an hour at the zoo.

We let him pick out a birthday toy at the zoo gift shop and of course he found the only trucks in the entire store.  So we came home with more trucks…  He was exhausted and fell asleep for a quick nap on the way to lunch.

Before he fell asleep he asked for a milkshake for lunch, so on the way home we googled good milkshakes and The Pharmacy came up.  Michael had never eaten there so we decided to try it out! Patrick did great during lunch and loved the milkshake the most.

After The Pharmacy we headed home to have a few minutes rest before it was time for his birthday dinner.  We had his birthday dinner at Nana and Grumps house and Big and Allie joined us as well. Patrick's favorite meal is chick-fil-a, so we ordered chick-fil-a for everyone.  Michael also picked up a "Queen" cake, balloons and lightning mcqueen cups and plates. Patrick loved it!

Patrick is shy and gets nervous when the attention is on him, so he cried during the Happy Birthday song. 

Peyton decided to dig into the cake! Wish he had been this excited about his smash cake!

A few family pictures after a fun day!

Michael and I both had a blast with Patrick! It could not have been a more fun day! I think it was just what we needed!