Monday, February 13, 2012

He's 3! How Can It Be?!


Dear Austin,
I'm not quite sure how it happened, and I certainly did not approve of this plan, but you grew another year older - again!  Although you claim, "I the baby" at times when it works in your favor, you are no longer a baby.  Somewhere along the way this year, you started talking in complete sentences expressing your every opinion whether we wanted to hear it or not.  Gone is the toddler who just followed after all of us without wanting to go in another direction.  You now have wants, needs and desires and you're not afraid to let us know what those are.  Sometimes you have to repeat yourself before we either listen or understand.  You LOVE to sing and dance which keeps us in stitches with your renditions of "Happy Birthday" and "Jingle Bells" or whatever else pops into your head.  You are truly a boy and will turn ANYTHING into a gun to shoot the bad guys.  You have a fondness for marine life and Finding Nemo is still one of your favorite movies.  

Recently, you discovered Scooby Doo and dubbed him "Scoo Boo".  Until your birthday gifts arrived, you had only ONE item with Scooby on it - a pair of jammies.  Yes, there have been multiple nights when the Scoo Boo jammies were worn AGAIN just to keep the peace.  Now you have 2 T-shirts, a 2nd pair of jammies, cartoon DVDs, action figures, a swamp buggy and a game for your vReader.  You couldn't be happier with life.

So, Happy Birthday, Austin.  When you came along, you changed our lives for the better.  Yes, I said for the better.  Don't listen to your sister when she says you ruined her life and that you are the "annoying one".  She's just the family drama queen.  We love you, buddy!