Happy Birthday Benson

Of course I am partial to my own children and think I have the cutest kids, the cutest dirty faces, the cutest temper tantrums, the cutest personalities. I can't believe Benson is 3 years old! He is the most polite little boy I have ever met. Every time some one said happy birthday to him he said, "Thank you" or Thank you for my birthday," in his most enthusiastic little voice. This morning when he woke up I gave him his first present, a "birthday outfit". About 5 time this morning he said, "Thank you for my birthday clothes mom." Josh got to come home early from school because he had a dentist appt. so that worked out nice (he usually doesn't get home until 9 p.m.). Then we gave him the rest of his presents and had some pizza and cake. Then played some games he got for his birthday. Ok, so it might sound like we got him a lot for his birthday, but we got him everything from garage sales. The beauty of it is he doesn't care, nor does he know the difference. I can think of very few things that are more fun than celebrating your own child's birthday. This is the first year I feel like Benson knows and understand the birthday thing and is so excited about it. Saturday we are doing a water birthday party with family and friends. It will be interesting to see how well that goes over with 10 children 5 and under running around. On top of that we are having a garage sale that morning. I guess I was feeling a little ambitious when I made all these plans.