After getting Karlie all better after spending 3 days at Scottish Rite Hospital with Pneumonia and 2 weeks recuperating at home, we were excited for a celebration! Luckily, we had Nathan's Birthday to look forward to. He turned 3 on July 13th, and as you can tell from the pictures, he is all about Transformers right now.
On the Saturday before his birthday, Daddy was going to take Nathan to see "Ice Age 3" in 3-D. When Nathan found out what movie they were going to, he burst into tears, saying "I just want to see Transformers 2!" With Mom and Dad not being so sure about sending a 3 year old to a PG-13 movie, he ended up settling on going to Burger King instead (since they had Transformers toys in their kids meals).
Nathan couldn't wait to have his birthday cake, so we ended up making it the Sunday evening before his birthday. I decorated the cake to his specifications, and then left it on the kitchen counter and went upstairs to take care of the baby--you would think I knew better! About 30 minutes later, I heard Brandon getting after Nathan, and Nathan crying. I went downstairs and discovered Nathan covered in chocolate frosting, and half of the cake demolished! I cleaned him up (without taking a picture first, dangit), and told him it was okay, that now it just looked like the transformers got in a battle on his cake.
Nathan's personality certainly showed through as he opened all of his Transformers-themed gifts. He thoughtfully inspected each one, and then he happily played with them for the rest of the day. Sure love that little boy!
You can't really tell by my extremely uncreative and sparse pictures where we are, but we really did spend the day at Six Flags--all 6 of us! The girls earned tickets to Six Flags as part of their school's reading program, so we decided to make a family day out of it. All of us had a blast! Brandon was kind and allowed me to go on the ride with the kids where we got drenched and he stood out with Colin. What a sweetie. Nathan was most impressed with meeting Batman and Green Lantern, and he loved the Monster Mansion. Karlie loved the roller coasters--the higher the thrill level, the more she liked it. She came home, studied the Six Flags map, and wrote out her park strategy for next summer. Abby was impressed with the bumper cars. She summed it up best as we were leaving the park by saying, "It was like having a vacation for the day."
