Happy 3rd birthday Aaron!!

Somehow Aaron is now 3 years old!! Talk about time flying!!

We spent the morning at his favorite place in Raleigh - Marbles Children's Museum!! This kid sure loves his marbles and Marbles.

Leading up to his birthday, he said he wanted a Curious George cake. Good, I have made a monkey cake before for Kyle. Then Aaron changed his mind and said he wanted a digger cake. He is going through a serious car, truck, garbage truck, digger, construction equipment stage. Then he said he wanted a Curious George digger cake. At that point, I became deaf to any other whim suggestions and went with Curious George digger cake. And here you have it! Note: Curious George manning the construction site in the corner. 

And we invited over our favorite people in Raleigh: Amy, Tony, Annalise and Anthony to help us celebrate Aaron. Everyone has a great time together so it was only fitting to have Aaron's birthday party be with them. 

Happy birthday song

Aaron scored some pretty awesome trucks for his birthday. Here he is with his prized garbage truck.

Kyle & Emily birthday

After a fun day celebrating with Simon and Haiden, we had some cake together. Simon, Haiden and their families joined us for cake that evening as well.

Kyle chose fruit pie for his 'cake'. This is a dessert we have made before and was his choice for his day.

Emily chose a chocolate cake. I made what is becoming our go to chocolate cake recipe and turned it into a cat for her. 

Emily with her best friend Haiden

Our family of 5, July 9, 2014. Emily & Kyle age 8, Aaron age 2. 

Funny cute thing about this birthday: when singing Happy Birthday to Emily (we sing it for each kid), Aaron decided he was going to blow out the candles and did so for Emily and was just so pleased with himself it made everyone laugh with delight. He also learned to say Happy Birthday to you. Without a video of it, it's hard to understand just how cute it is with his sweet little intonations, but it was so sweet to hear him say that to his loves, Kyle and Emily. Now whenever he sees fire, he says, "happy birthday to you."

Aaron eating cake

Because this video deserves its own post... too cute!