Happy Birthday, Keenan!!

We have a three year old! It is hard to believe but here he is, huge! We had a blast celebrating our big guy last weekend and were reminded again how blessed we are to have him as ours. He is an incredible boy with a huge heart and we love him dearly!! I will walk you through our weekend of celebrating Keenan Boy. It started Friday morning at snack time at his school. We got to take cookies and play with everyone for a bit. Everyone sang happy birthday to him and he was so embarrassed. It was fun for me to see him playing and interacting with his friends and how they love on each other even though they cannot understand one another fully.
There are 27 kiddos in his class and they are all so adorable!
Elliot and me at the party

Then came the BIG day!!! Our morning was NOTHING like we planned or thought it would be but it was fun rolling with the punches. For days before I had been trying to get out of Keenan what type of cake he wanted, what special birthday dinner he wanted, what he wanted to do, the works. And all I got out of him was he wanted chocolate pancakes for breakfast so I had it in my head that morning time would be a great family time and big celebration deal for us. Well, we woke up kinda early but were waiting for Elliot to get up when Karl knocked on the door and asked us to come to their apartment for a sec. We go over and see that their shelves on the wall above their kitchen sink had come crashing down with tons of food everywhere along with kerosine lanterns and broken glass. While we were there for a bit their boys woke up and we went into the room to say good morning to find Whittaker had pooed and smeared it all over the place. I brought Keenan and JW over to our place while Whit got cleaned up and Craig helped try to clean up the kitchen. Whit then came over screaming because he didnt want to be at our house and at the same time Elliot was constipated and screaming because he couldnt go. So, I put Keenan and J at the table with some play doh, Whit in Keenan's room to scream all he wanted and sat with Elliot while he sat on his little toilet literally dripping sweat and crying for about 20 minutes as he tried his hardest to go. Absolute chaos!! The dust finally settled and we were able to have pancakes with everyone in shifts and we finally made it to unwrap presents with our birthday boy! Deep breath!!
Here was his face when he saw his little pile of presents. Sheer happiness!
Package from Nan and Pops

They made a recording of them reading this book to him and we listened to it that night at bed time. When he heard their voices come on the computer he sat up really quickly and started talking back telling them all about his day and how he got a new book to read.
Reading Uncle Kevin's card which he did over and over and over since it sang a song
Elliot enjoyed the unwrapping of presents too!
His new clock! He can now tell time at the push of a button and knows he can come out of his room in the morning when the light turns green.
From Auntie A and Uncle John
SOOO excited
His big gift from us was a train set that he loves. I dont know if Craig loves it more though. They will sit forever and build and play together. My favorite thing is that they sit on the floor the exact same way too.
Theeen we took them to a play area at the "big giant store" and the boys played for a couple of hours running and jumping around.

The only picture I could get of the three of them. So stinkin hard!
Keenan settled for a pirate party and he had a treasure chest cake which ended up falling apart right before we did the cake part of the night but still delicious and as a three year old, he did not care one bit.
Before the corner fell off
The boys had a scavenger hunt around the house where I had drawn picture of different things things of where to find the next clue. I am not at all good at drawing and we had to give lots and lots of clues on top of the drawings in order for them to find the treasure. At one point when they found a new clue and I asked what the picture was JW cocked his head all the way sideways and said "Is it a fish?!" It was a guy laying in bed to signal to go look under Keenan's bed. It was still so fun and the boys had a blast.
The end of a long and great day!