Daddy's Girl

Caroline gets so excited when she gets to spend time with her dad - she really lights up when she sees him:

Memorial Day Fun

We started off our Memorial Day weekend in the mountains, and Mommy made the mistake of forgetting her camera!!  It was lots of fun though - Wells played with his friend Mason and there was a retirement party for Poppy.  Caroline got to meet lots of family and friends too.

Back in Charlotte, Wells spent time with GG at MPCC and then wrapped up the afternoon with Mommy & Daddy at the pool:

They had bouncy castles and slides

Wells jumping to Daddy in the big pool

Little fish

Splashing around

Our sweet girl always along for the ride

3, 2, 1

I had a family member request a past birthday party posting (sorry for those of you who are reading for some type of actual update):

3rd birthday

2nd birthday

1st birthday

It sure is going by fast!!

Pool Party!

We wrapped up Wells' third birthday celebrations yesterday with his alligator themed pool party.  He had such a great time!

Hooray!  His pool party is finally here.  I think he has asked me every day since May 1st if today was the day...

The setup:

Drinks:

Sweet treats:

Adorable cookie pops thanks to my friend Liza (she should seriously start a business with these things)

Favors:

Wells loved having so many of his friends & family there:

Mommy & Daddy with the birthday boy

Caroline in her bathing suit

Daddy & Aunt Laurel

GG and Wells showing me their pool toys

Big pool with Carson

The cute Hardin family

The always adorable White twins

Charlie & his daddy

The Simmons boys

Reese & Liam

Courtney & baby Bridget

The Rogers on Caroline duty

GG & Aunt Ann with Caroline

Wells & Granddaddy

Cousin Kim

I have no idea how many cupcakes, cookie pops, and alligator cookies Wells actually consumed over the course of the day.  But he was so happy that his Uncle Beau decided to join the fun and also go for the "icing beard" look.

Happy Birthday to our sweet and wonderful Wells!  We love you!

Party On...

Wells had his third birthday party at school on Monday.

Here he is with his lunch bunch

He was SO excited that his Daddy came

Reluctantly wearing the birthday hat with three candles

Enjoying #3 cookies

Then today we celebrated his teachers' summer birthdays.  Wells brought Miss Carrie and Miss Dianne pretty pink peonies.  The class sang happy birthday and performed their favorite dances (this is Wells doing a fast version of Jump Up & Down).

THREE.

It's a popular number around here this weekend!

Matt and Wells, 33 and 3 today

Hard to beleive my sweet baby boy is 3 years old

Caroline, 3 months old tomorrow

Celebrations began today and festivities continue through next weekend...more to come!

Cute Caroline

Here is some recent Caroline cuteness:

How Could I Miss This?

I want Wells & Caroline to be able to look back at this one day...and sometimes I feel like I am missing some of the everyday activities in exchange for fun posts about outings and events.  So today I realized I had not one post dedicated to W's favorite daily playtime activity:  TRAINS.  He is obsessed - he knows the name of every single Thomas and Chuggington train (as do I now), he loves building extensive track systems on the floor, and he contantly is talking about getting more trains!

He shares the love of trains with next door neighbor Carter.  Here they are showing me their favorite trains.  They have their own train lingo and it cracks me up to listen to them when they are playing.  They talk about what they need to pull in their "tray-wers", which ones are the fastest, what they are going to do when they stop at the station, etc.

Here is an extensive track set up that Wells built.  I am often very impressed!  He is pretty proud here too.  Note that this activity has completely replaced naptime.  I put him in his room in the afternoon to take a nap and he says, "No!  I not tired.  I will play trains quietly."