Monster Truck Jam

Wow, all I can say about Monster Truck Jam is that it is definitely an experience!  A few weeks ago we had planned a trip to go visit Jarrod’s family in Greenville, SC for a family birthday celebration for Bo.  A few days later my sister in law, Kim, emailed me and mentioned she saw that Monster Truck Jam was going to be in town that same weekend.  So of course we had to take Bo…what little boy wouldn’t love it!  Well, we were right, he did!!  I was so proud of him for keeping his ear protection on, I think it helped that all of the other little boys had ear muffs on too.  In addition to the ear muffs, we also had child size ear plugs in his ears.  I’m so glad because I can’t even describe how loud it was. It was so loud that it actually made my ears hurt, I’m not sure I’ve ever experienced that before.  We walked in right when it was starting and the adults had not had time to put their earplugs in so we got a quick 30 second glimpse of just how loud it really was.  We were also really close!!  The arena wasn’t very big at all and I swear there were times I thought “what if he looses control, he’s going to be in the seat next to me”!!!!!  It was so funny to watch Bo’s reaction.  At first he was just frozen, just eyes as big as they could possibly go!  I don’t think he realized he was going to see real monster trucks, he’s just used to his toy monster trucks.  He did great and when it was over he kept asking for “one more”.  Oh and what was really funny, was that baby was going nuts during the entire thing!!!  The sounds and vibrations probably had our peanut wondering where in the world they were!!

After the show we headed back to Jarrod’s parent’s house for pizza, cake, and presents.  He loves, loves, loves his cousins Lily and Josie, he had so much fun playing with them.  I say this every time but I would welcome a weekend visit from them anytime, they are so good with him and I don’t ever have to worry about if he’s getting into something he shouldn’t.  It’s a very nice break for mommy!!!  So his second birthday party of his 3rd birthday was definitely a hit!!!  Oh and he now wants to crash everything he sees, which is what I was afraid of haha!

    waiting to go in!

Right at the beginning…this expression just says it all!!  Can’t you just imagine the thoughts in his head!!! 

 

Josie, Lily, & Aunt Kim

 

   

pictures just don’t do these things justice, I can’t tell you how big they are!!

   

almost 6 months pregnant, can’t believe it!!

Of course I had to order a monster truck cake too!

   

He was so excited to get a new Dr. Seuss book!!!! 

   

Bowling!!!!

Ever since the snow storm Bo has been obsessed with bowling.  It all started by watching it being played on the Wii!  It had been a while since he had seen it and all it took was one time and he was hooked.  He would constantly ask “play bowling”.  If you have a wii then you know the bowling game takes a little more than just waving your hand you have to actually push buttons at the same time so it required mommy or daddy to do it with him.  Then soon after the snow cleared we went to see James’ baby sister Maggie.  It was complete coincidence but they had a child’s bowling game set up for the kids so while mommy loved on Baby Maggie, Bo played that for an hour and had a horrible meltdown when it was time to go.  Then to top things off it turns out that Janice planned James’ birthday party at Stars and Strikes, which is basically a grown up Chuck E Cheese, except they have kids things too.  If you want to go somewhere and come home with a massive headache this is for you!  However, the bowling was separate from all of the games, so that wasn’t bad at all.  The kids got to actually bowl on a real bowling alley.  Bo was beside himself!!  He had so much fun!  Even to the point of when it was time for pizza and cake he wanted to keep playing and while he did sit to eat a quick bite he was watching all of the people in other lanes play.  Looks like this may be something daddy and I have to take him to do again!  He’s still talking about it and today while I was picking up some “potty training” incentives I found a kids bowling set at the store so I have that stashed away in my closet if he goes potty all week!

     Who knew they had such small bowling shoes!!!

He was so intense about it all!!

Later they brought out a ramp for the little kids.  They just set the ball on top and push it down it was great!

Bo & James…they were very serious about the game

  If I remember correctly there was about to be a little heated disagreement here on who should get the balls!  They play like brothers and they fight like brothers!!

3 Years Old

I still can’t believe it, but yesterday our sweet baby boy turned 3!!!! 

A few hours old      1 year old

2 years old

3 years old

He had such a fun day!  Yesterday morning he woke up to decorations and presents.  This year he actually understood what was going on.  He had been asking for cake and presents two days before his birthday.  As soon as he finished his presents, at 7:30am the first thing out of his mouth was “where’s cake?”  At least I had an answer for him…he would get cupcakes later that day at school.  Later that morning I took some fireman themed cupcakes to his class.  They loved it!  Bo was a little unsure of everyone singing happy birthday to him, he just sat there and stared at his cupcake!  Last night, daddy came home a little early so we could grab an early dinner and of course we knew he’d want pizza.  After dinner we came back home for another celebration including a small icecream cake and playing with his new toys.  It was such a special day and he had a blast.

This year we aren’t having a full blown kids party, which is completely unlike me, but I’ll be honest…for a January birthday you need to start planning in Nov/Dec, which was the height of my morning sickness.  So…we will be dragging it out over a few weekends.  Next weekend we are going to Greenville to see Jarrod’s family and while we are there Bo will be attending his first Monster Truck Jam!!!!  He is going to be beside himself, I can’t wait!!!  We will celebrate there with the Lawson side of the family.  After that we are still trying to decide if we want to just have a few friends over to cook out and celebrate one last time.  January is such a hard month for us, because Jarrod is always gone two weekends out of the month, so it’s very possible we may have one last celebration in February! Something tells me he won’t mind!  Happy Birthday sweet boy, we love you so much!!

     

It’s early but he was excited to see presents!

 

 

   

out at dinner

    

 

 

Playing with his Lincoln Logs from Aunt Emily and Uncle Bubba, he loved them!!!!