Saturday night, we were sitting around and enjoying some pre-birthday pizza, when Billy was asked what he wanted for his birthday. His answer took about ten minutes and most of it was about who knows what, but, the gist was that he wanted Samuel and Steamer and the Ghost Tunnel from GeoTrax. There was no doubt in Billy’s mind that that was what he was going to get. Of course, he only started talking about this desire a week before his birthday and I had already purchased his gift way ahead of time …
but I won the “best mom of the year” award because I’d gotten him Steamer the train, Samuel the driver, and some track with a tunnel!
His third birthday was made!
We visited at Grandmama’s house after church where Billy got another favorite meal for dinner – spaghetti!
Billy’s cake was not all that wonderful this time, but I was so sick, he was lucky to be getting anything creative at all! I thought he’d be so excited to see his Thomas train on the cake, but I was wrong. I lit the candles and he nearly started crying because he was so concerned that Thomas was going to be burned up! We sang fast …
He blew the first two candles out with ease, but that last one just wouldn’t go out for him. He blew and spit and blew some more (Ricky started helping from across the table as well).
Billy finally conquered that candle! Then he ate his big piece of cake as all three year olds should — frosting first! Rusty just went for it by the fistful.
Happy birthday to my blue-eyed, train-loving, pasta-eating, good helping, cranky-face-making, teasing, gabby, bossy, funny, little charmer. We love you, Billy!
