Matthew's birthday finally came. He has been so excited to have his birthday since about Hailey's birthday in August. We had to keep telling him that his birthday wasn't until after Christmas. Then, he told everyone he saw that his birthday was after Christmas. Well, Christmas came and went and finally it was time for Matt's birthday. I kept asking him what he wanted for his birthday dinner. He named just about everything. Once he told me he wanted strawberry shortcake (because it is food and it is crunchy). He decided on Hawaiian Haystacks--one of his favorites. He also decided on a funfetti cake that he wanted decorated like a race track and strawberry ice cream.
The morning of his birthday he woke up and immediately wanted to play with the car Grandma and Grandpa Wilkins gave him. That all changed, though, when he went down stairs and saw the streamers and balloons and a present sitting on the table.
Somehow I managed to not get a picture once the present was actually opened. He got a scooter. He had been wanting one ever since he saw Rachel open hers and was thrilled when he saw it.
During naptime I frosted his cake. It did not go as planned. I made a white chocolate butter cream frosting that I had made for Rachel's cake, but my white chocolate hardened up when I put it in my mixer bowl. I ended up with chunks of white chocolate in the frosting which made it impossible to pipe. Oh well. He liked it (except for the fact that I made the grass green--apparently he wanted it yellow) and it tasted good.
When it was time for cake and ice cream Matt was so excited to blow out the candles. After we sang to him he blew them out one at a time. I guess we have yet to teach our kids the whole make-a-wish-and-blow-the-candles-out-in-one-breath thing.
We are so glad to have Matt in our family. He is such a sweet little boy. And now he is finally three (though, for the longest time he would tell people he was turning eight on his birthday).