Patrick's 3rd Birthday

Patrick's birthday celebrations started while we were in Wisconsin. Grandma & pa Hatton got him a castle.


Here Patrick meets the dragon Uncle Chris got him to go with the castle.

Here he is at home enjoying the castle, the royalty and their squires.

After spending who knows how much time setting it up, Becca is able to destroy the train set up in a matter of seconds.

Here the kids and I are enjoying the bin for the train tracks.

Grandma & pa Sullivan were able to make the trip over for Patrick's birthday. Here Pat finds a open lap and willing reader.

And the kids love to hang out with Grandpa.

Here is Princess Becca.

Jan got me a stadium cake pan for Christmas, so we naturally used it for Patrick's birthday cake. If you look closely you can see that Mike made it look as much like Notre Dame Stadium as he could.


Patrick got some great gifts besides the castle. A soccer ball, size 3...

...a shirt with a firetruck on it...

...and a helicopter!


He also cleaned up with some gifts from the Showalters who came over for brats and cake.

Here is Sam enjoying the castle and looking like a princess.

It took a couple of tries, but Patrick did manage to blow out the candles.


We'll end with some silliness and play-doe.


And one mighty cute picture of Becca.

Becca's vocabulary is expanding quickly. She added "bubble" to the list during her bath the other night. She's also saying something that sounds a lot like "grandma" on top of "ma", "Hi Da!" and the high pitched "ahhhh!" which means four-legged creature.