Three

Our happy 3 year old

Happy Birthday, Dear Isaac!  It's been eerily weird being this pregnant around Isaac's birthday.  Isaac, very appropriately, came to us on April Fool's Day.  He's been full of surprises ever since.   Isaac turned three last Sunday.  Due to being very pregnant, I am naturally up every couple of hours at night.  I kind of relived some of the climactic moments of Isaac's birth throughout the Sat into Sun as I woke up often.  I woke up at 1245, took a shower, braided my hair.  1 hour later - called my mom.  1 hour later, arrived at the hospital.  2 hours later, labor really kicked into full (and painful!) gear.  2 hours later - began pushing.  7:07 AM - our beautiful Isaac was born.  Wouldn't you know it, I woke up at exactly 7:07 AM on his 3rd birthday.  So, happy birthday to Isaac, and happy BIRTH day to me.
Isaac continues to be smart, enthusiastic, silly, happy, stubborn, charming, adorable, bossy, gregarious, quite imaginative, and fun.  Some of the pros:  he is a constant source of entertainment for all of us, including himself.  He makes amazing connections between what he knows/has learned, and the world around him.  He fits in just about everywhere he goes and is able to read peoples' feelings pretty intuitively.  He is fully potty-trained now!  Hip Hip - hooray!   Some cons:  We still have a difficult time getting him to eat enough of anything.  He was never picky, up until about 6 months ago.  He's still not super picky, he just isn't interested in eating more than a couple bites of anything at any given time.  The boy knows how to throw a tantrum.  It doesn't happen extremely often, but when it does, watch out! 
His stats comparisons: 
birth:  20.5 inches - 87%   9 lbs. 2 oz - 94%
3 years old:  35.5 inches - 19 %  27.2 lbs 10%
Nobody can believe I had such a giant baby when they see him now.  :-)
I'm thinking three years apart for these kiddos is going to be perfect.  Isaac has been helping more around the house and has been much more independent lately.  I guess we'll see!
And now, a few birthday pictures.  We had his birthday on Sun, April 1.  Since our house is undergoing some major construction, our fantastic neighbors - the K-Ps, asked if we wanted to celebrate at their house (they are just a couple houses up the street.)  I was hoping that the weather would be lovely and we could enjoy their very kid-friendly backyard.  Not so much.  But their cute house did just wonderfully, and we had a good time with some close family and friends.  A few photos from his 3rd!

He was SO happy to be greeted by this when he woke up.

Entertaining himself before his guests arrived for his par-tay!

He requested pizza (so we got the biggest ever pizzas from the Pie) and he wanted "kid beer," so he got sparkling apple cider.  Despite my telling him that beer tastes icky, he's obsessed with this idea of kid beer.  oooooooooooh man.

awesome possum

He found a pineapple in this gift box :-)

He was very cute, thanking everyone by name for his loot.

Train cake made by nana Margaret.  He didn't cry during the happy birthday song like he did last year :)

Pull string pinata.  Maybe we did it wrong, but it didn't work, so I had to yank the bottom off with my hands and let the stuff fall.  Anti-climatic, but oh well.  They still liked it :)

Uncle Nate and Isaac by his cupcake pinata

3!

Thanks for the balloon Aunt Mary/Margaret!