Charlie Beckett is 3!

My sweet little man is three today.

All day long he asked for cake.

He's got a major sweet tooth like his mama.

I call him "my little sweet potato" [in reference to Toy Story 2, I do the voice of Mrs. Potato Head and everything]

He replies with, "I not your lil sweet totato".

I say, "oh yes you are..."

he says, "oh no i not"

:)

Speaking of Toy Story 2....someone is a fan.

He watches this movie every chance he gets.

When I ask what movie he would like to watch, this is his reply.

He's a big fan of buzz lampyear.

I think it's so funny when he hurts himself and will come to me and say, "Mommy, I hurt meself"...

arghhhhhhh matey!

anyways...

When I tell him I love him, his reply is, "I love you mommy, more, more, more, more, more"..this can go on for a solid minute....

so cute :)

He refuses to potty train. I mean, he's never sat on the toilet. He's terrified of it! We've even tried to bribe him with candy, animals, a trip to the toy store where he can pick out ANYTHING he wants....nothing is working for this kid.

[Suggestions would be highly appreciated]

Tonight we took him to eat his birthday dinner at Houston's.

My sister works there and she happened to be working tonight, so she got to sing Happy Birthday to him too.

It was a really yummy dinner and the kids are learning to behave more and more in a nice restaurant.

Except when Charlie launched his fork across the room.

and when he threw his napkin across to the other table beside us...

oh and when he took his straw out of his lemonade and blew it in my face.

that was lovely.

but other than that,

lovely dinner...really.

Aunt Lana brought out this yummy warm apple pie with ice cream.

The General Manager of the restaurant came to our table and personally asked Charlie what he would like for dessert.

This is what he chose.

[good choice chuck]
His face when we [including waiters/waitresses] were belting out Happy Birthday to him...

...too cool!
Going in for the blowout...
and this is about as good as it gets for a Gilmore Family pic.

Lana refused to get in our picture.

Whatevs!

Happy Birthday to my sweet boy.

I love you too much.