Happy Birthday!

Tobias turned 3 last friday. Unbelievable!!! We celebrated twice: On his actual birthday we had my parents, my brother and some close friends over. The next day, last saturday, we had some friends with their children over. Both parties were nice and Tobias was spoiled to death!

First of all he had a cake on both parties. On friday I took half a day of and picked him up early from the daycare. That was nice and we spent the afternoon together baking an apple pie. In this picture he has a hat on that was made for him at the daycare. And as you can see he is sitting close to the kitchen scale because he wanted to weigh everything... It was quite funny because he started telling me about what the daycare teacher had told him and he was saying "I don't fit in this scale!". Apparently he had talked about the scale at the daycare and they must have thought he was talking about a bathroom scale... :-).

Oh, I have to tell you this anecdote...: Tobias pees on the toilet these days, but he has been pretty persistent in refusing to do No. 2 on the toilet. He kept telling us "When I am three I will go poo-poo on the toilet." Well, a couple of days before his birthday he received some cards with the number three on it. So, I tried to convince him to go no. 2 on the toilet because he was almost three, and while telling him that I referred to the cards with the number three on it. Well, that strategy blew up in my face on his actual birthday because I told him in the morning: "You are three now Tobias, are you going to go poo-poo on the toilet now?", to which he thought for a little bit and then replied: "Papa, I am still a liiiiiiiiittle bit two." :-) Brilliant?! Not? (By the way, he did go poo-poo on the toilet yesterday...)

Anyway, on his actual birthday we had a nice dinner (that I cooked) and a nice party. He got a typical Dutch gift from my parents: a "Sjoelbak", a game where you have to slide wooden discs into holes. Lots of fun. We gave him a scooter.

The next day we had lots of children in the house which was fun too, and messy :-). Lisa made a chocolate cake this time and once again he got quite some gifts. His favorite was probably an airplane that makes a take-off and landing noise when you push the button. He also got some playmobil, games, books and such.

It was a good birthday, but I can't believe my son is already three years old!!!