Our Growing Boy Turns 3

Seth has been growing up so much and he loves doing anything his dad does.

The toy hammer just won't cut it anymore.

He has been watching Dad work on the mowers and thinks he needs to check it out too.

He is so cute, the other day he rode in a car attached to a shopping cart at the grocery store. When I went to get him out he insisted that he had to check the engine and became very disappointed when he realized there was no hood to look under.

HIS BIG DAY

Today he turned 3!

The weather was half decent and there was an especially low tide today in the early afternoon so we hit the beach.

It is amazing just how much stuff you need to be comfortable with little ones involved. Seth did a great job of pulling the load...

for a while :)

We set up camp and prepared to have fun.

(Janice gave him the little tent with a matching sleeping bag and chair)

We found tons of "baby" crabs

Then we rolled up our pants and waded out to see the real critters.

Unfortunately while we were out checking out the local wildlife, the tide started coming in fast and by the time we headed back in we ended up wading through water up to our back pockets!

So what else is a girl to do..., so of course we stripped down

and hid in Seth's nifty new tent while our pants dried.

Did I mention this is a little tent?

Eventually we returned to a fully clothed state and finished enjoying our afternoon on the beach.

Then we had to treat ourselves to some ice cream

Before coming home and having cake!

Seth was so excited to blow out his candles and did a masterful job of it.

Seth got a few more fun things, a game from Aunt Viv

And a dinosaur from us (he thought it was a little scary at first, but he watched Aunt Viv having such fun with it, he warmed up to it pretty quickly)

What a fun day we had, and what a blessing our "big" boy has been.