Our Three-Year-Old.

I thank the Lord I have been blessed with three precious children.  Sometimes it's hard enough for me to believe that I am an adult, much less the mother to three children.  It seems like I should still be a teenager.  What a wonderful, amazing responsibility God has given me as a mother.  Today we celebrated Braysen's third birthday.  My how these three years have flown by.  I remember him being in my arms and never wanting to put him down.  It's still the same way sometimes...I start hugging and kissing him, and he squeezes me back as hard as he can.  I want those moments to freeze in time. Because before we know it, another three years will slip away, and he will be six...and then nine...and well, I don't want to think about it!  He was so sweet today trying to hold up three fingers.  It took every bit of effort he had to keep his thumb and pinky down so that he would only have three fingers up.  I love his little personality.  He is so precious...and everything he says is funny.  I can't imagine what our lives would be like if he hadn't been born three years ago.  I will rock him, hold him, kiss him, and tickle him until he's old enough to be "too cool" for it. And even then, I will still try.  I love that little boy so much it makes my heart ache sometimes.  I am just going to hold on to every smile...every "Mommy, I love you"...every giggle...every second...

We went to Kandee's Frozen Yogurt tonight and boy, did Braysen have fun picking out his toppings!  Chocolate frozen yogurt, chocolate syrup, caramel syrup, Reese's pieces, marshmallows, sour gummy worms, strawberries, blackberries, and blueberries! LOL He was so excited telling me the toppings he wanted that he could barely breathe!

Seven years...

Today is Ayden's 7th birthday.  I am always so nostalgic on my children's birthdays, trying to remember every detail of the day they were born.  And I want to make the day so special for them. After all, the day that each of them was born makes up three of the best days my life. 

I asked Ayden a few days ago what he wanted me to cook him for his birthday.  He thought about it for a few seconds then said, "Dirt cake!"  So of course I had to make sure he got it :) I also had to make him a snack for his class today for his "birthday snack". I got a camouflage cake mix at Wal-Mart, and my gosh was that time consuming!!  After mixing the cake, I had to divide the batter and put different amounts of food coloring in each bowl to create four different colors. Then each color had to be dropped separately into the cake pan to create the camouflage effect. I put bright orange icing on the top, and it turned out so cute.  Then after finishing that, I had to start the dirt cake...another time-consuming recipe!  I let him and Gracelyn eat the dirt cake for breakfast this morning.  They loved that!  Then right before I went to bed, I taped streamers across his door frame so that he would have to burst through them when he got up this  morning.  He told me felt like a football player because they always run through the paper sign.