Happy Birthday Eli

Our little boy is three years old and more awesome than ever. I just love him more and more as he grows. Sure, there are frustrating times when dealing with a little one, but most of the time, he is just pure joy. His speech and vocabulary is incredible. He makes me laugh all the time with the things that come out of his mouth. I am constantly asking, "who taught you that?"

Birthdays aren't a big deal here. However, this was the first one he understood and could look forward to so we did a three day celebration. On Tuesday, we hosted playgroup, a weekly meeting of moms and their kids. Since Eli loves music and instruments, George found a couple local guys to play songs for the kids with a guitar and drum. Their first song... "Edelweiss" from "The Sound of Music." An odd choice for a kids party, but I was thrilled. That's my favorite movie. (Monica... I needed you there for that!). Other than the musicians, we had cake and snacks for the kids and they just ran around and had fun. Guess who didn't have fun... the birthday boy. He was pouting and grumpy the whole time. It was frustrating because we wanted him to enjoy his special day and he had been looking forward to it so much. I assumed he was overwhelmed by the attention, but it turns out he had a fever of 102, poor guy. I discovered that when everyone left and he asked to go to bed, which he never does. I am not sure what the problem was since he had no other symptoms and was fine the next day. On Wednesday we went a restaurant that offers a free piece of cake on your birthday. He had been looking forward to having his special cake. Then on Thursday, we went to the place he most wanted to go on his birthday.... Nakumatt, the big grocery store in town. That is his favorite place in the world to go. Overall, it was a fun, cheap birthday extravaganza.

I will end this post with a quote from Eli.

Me: "Eli, your birthday is coming soon and you'll be three!"
Eli: "And then I get married?... To Elsa?"