3!

so only a little over a week ago, this child had a birthday:

we started the day - just like last year - with the happy birthday song (as made popular by the beetles, apparently)... but we really celebrated on our california trip (that was kind of the whole point of going to disneyland) - i was asked to take pictures of our companies 5K that morning and then i had a city league basketball game - but we did have cake on  his actual day - it's an airplane!

i thought that this sequence of pictures was funny - this was the second time blowing out the candle and it didn't quite work - he tried so hard to blow it out, and you can even see the fire move on the candle (the 3rd pic) but the last pic is the best, he was so bothered that it didn't go out...

and then he tried again...

we then opened some presents, i don't even think he looked at the gift until all of the paper was off of it!

and then that was about it.  hope that he had a good day - he said he did :)