The Big 0-3!

In November we celebrated Cole's 3rd birthday, and it is so hard to believe that he is already 3-yikes! We had a lot of fun because not only did his cousins from here get to come and celebrate (and all the adults), but his cousins from St Louis also got to be here since they were already in town for Thanksgiving. We had a little party, and though he LOVED blowing out the candles, he still doesn't care much for actually eating the cake. After everyone had cleared out from the weekend, we went to Chuck E Cheese's with just Scott, Cole & I and had a GREAT TIME playing all the games.
The really big story about him turning 3 was that he came to us that morning and said that he was ready to throw away his binkies AND he no longer wanted to wear pullups at night. We were cool with the pullup thing because it had been a LONG time since he'd had an accident overnight, but we were a little sketchy about throwing away the binks. Daddy was smart and lined the trash can before he tossed them-just in case. After a few hours of playing freely (and mommy shedding some tears about how big he was getting) he settled down for nap, and rethought the whole "no binky" thing, lol. After a little while of mommy trying to talk to him, daddy said that if he wanted to get them from the trash, that was fine, but he had to get them all on his own. Needless to say...we still have the binks when we sleep. Oh well! There are worse things :)