The Swin Life: B is 3

There are lots of different emotions coming to mind now that B is 3 years old. He is growing up so fast!

The biggest thing for me is more the fact that this is our last year at home together. He's going to be leaving me to start PreK in the Fall of next year. How can that be? Anyway all the sad momma emotions about my boy growing up aside we had a great time celebrating his birthday!

This was our first time to have his party at a place other than our house. I was a little stressed about loosing the control of the party by having it somewhere else but it turned out perfect. We went to Skyzone Trampoline park on Saturday. I think the adults had as much fun as the kids! We had our private trampoline court to jump in. We had 19 people kids and adults jumping with other adults watching. We jumped for an hour. It was so fun to watch B run and bounce and giggle. He would throw the dodge balls at people and take it when they threw it back at him. I loved watching B and his daddy play together! It's always is one of my favorite things to do but during his birthday party it was even more fun! After we jumped we had pizza, cupcakes and opened gifts. I felt like this part of the party was really rushed but it was still so much fun! B loved all his gifts and his cards. He kept stopping opening his cards and reading them "Happy. Birthday Blake!" he'd say! It was precious! Just before we sang happy birthday I asked everyone to sing it quietly bc he hates loud noises. As soon as everyone started singing he had his hands on his ears and he yelled "LOUDER LOUDER!"

One of the things I wanted to be sure of while having his party at the trampoline park was that I was able to stick with his firefighter theme. He loves everything firefighter related! I made all of the decorations and the invitations. It turned out perfect! Here are some pictures from his party!

On his actual birthday he woke up to balloons in his room and a few on his bed. His daddy and I blew them up the night before and put them in there right before we woke him up! He was so excited when he woke up! We played with all of the balloons for as long as we could before daddy had to leave for work! He kept telling everyone about playing with the balloons when he woke up! I don't have any pictures of that of course because we were in the moment and enjoying it so much! His Meme, Papa, Aunt Amber and cousin Chloe came up to hang out for the day. We went to the zoo until it started pouring down rain on us! We left the zoo had lunch then went to the aquarium. When we finally got home just in time for daddy to be home from work B was exhausted. His visitors headed home and we went to eat pizza for dinner. I have said before that he loves pizza! We had a great dinner followed by a yummy birthday dessert. Pictures from our fun on his birthday!

Rain at the zoo