Birthday Time!

Well, little Townshend keeps on growing! He's a whopping 3yrs old now. It's taken a little convincing to get him to own being three. For a while, leading up to his birthday, we'd remind him that his birthday was coming and that he'd be three, and he'd say, "No, I'll just be two and a half."

Then, the night before, Hubby and I hung up a bunch of balloons and in the morning, he came downstairs, saw the balloons and said, "Balloons! Now I can be THREE!"

Another exciting thing, a first for our Townshend, was he actually ate some of his birthday cake!

At 1 year, he touched his cake with one finger, but that was about it (even breaking it into smaller bits couldn't entice him further):

Last year, he was still seemed somewhat suspicious (this cake went completely untouched):

But this year, we had true contact:

After about two bites, the presents got more exciting than cake (even though he was very excited to discover that frosting was, indeed, tasty), which is probably not a bad way to be.