Three years old!!

David turned three years old last Saturday. We decided to try and put a little more distance between his birthday, and Christmas, so we're celebrating this weekend, and to avoid any confusion/frustration, we did not tell him that his actual birthday happened last Saturday. For the last few days he's been counting down "fweeps" until his birthday, and tonight is that last one. He is so excited!! As a matter of fact it is ten minutes past nine, and neither him nor James seem anywhere near going to sleep they are so excited.

For David's birthday we decided not to do a big party, but instead to celebrate as a family and have a day all about David. We gave David the choice of going to the aquarium, the museum, a giant indoor playground or the pool for his birthday. He chose the pool. I expected him to want to do something more out of the ordinary, but he is insistent that for his "bir-ey" he wants to go to the pool, and go down the slide and do swimming in the big kids pool. Not the baby pool, because he's three now!

I'm planning to take lots of pictures (maybe not at the pool, but before, after, and during presents and cupcakes!) and will hopefully manage to come back in the next few days and post them. In the mean time, here's a little bit about what David is up to as a three year old!

He loves Mike the Knight, Jake and the Neverland Pirates, and Fireman Sam. He also loves to pretend play knights, pirates, and fireman.

He's very excited to join James in the preschoolers sunday school class at church.

His favorite book is "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and when I read it he tells me "dat not how my teach(er) reads it" and waits until I translate everything into German. Especially on the page with "one piece of chocolate cake, one ice cream cone, etc."

His favorite stuffed animal is a stuffed dog he got a few years ago, and he has named it "nyeah, nyeah"

He says "peepee mach" (from peepee machen) whenever he has to go to the toilet.

He can say pretty much anything he wants to, but still struggles with grammar, l's, th's and r's, and any words longer than two syllables. He improves constantly though, and his daddy had the same issues at this age, so we're not worried.

If he's trying to say something to you, and he feels like you're not paying attention, he's stick his hand on your face until you're looking right at him.

He loves going to the Kinderpark, and always calls it. "Not my baby school, my big kid schoo, nex a' Chames' school"

He loves his big brother, more than I could have imagined possible. On days when James goes to school and he does not, he asks me at least every 30 minutes, if not more frequently, whether it is time to pick up James yet. Anytime we go places without James he will insist we get for James whatever he gets. If they give him two candies at the bank, he will save this both until he is with James and can share one with him.

He's really a joy to us, and we all love him so much!!