Happy 3rd Birthday Joe!

I can't believe I have a 3 year old! Happy Birthday Joe! We absolutely love having you in our family. We have loved watching you develop into a sweet, caring, sensitive little boy. I can't believe how smart you are and am amazed at how much you know. You are such a good big brother and Lynden loves everything you do! You have quite the sense of humor and I wonder sometimes where you learned to act the way you do. You are the perfect mix of your dad and me, having a little bit of stubborness and sassiness in the mix. You LOVE being around family and are always entertained by your wonderful cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents. From a young age you knew everyone by name and look forward to vacations to see family. I love that you love reading and being read to. You love the park, dancing around, shooting, playing with light sabers, trains, cars, and singing sweet little primary songs. Hopefully one day you won't be so shy and be more social, but as of right now you run to us when kids get too close that you don't know very well. It takes 5 minutes for you to warm up to people. As much as you love your mommy and let her know it often, daddy is your best friend and you can't wait for him to get home from work. You enjoy playing hide and go seek with him, baseball, tennis, and soccer. You are the light of my life and I am so lucky to be your mom. I thought you were the hardest baby ever, but now that I have another one, I'm thinking I had no idea what I was doing so I probably brought on the difficulty myself. I think you are a pretty easy toddler. You can sit in a car ride for 7 hours and watch movies and I don't feel like pulling my hair out by the end of it. Airplane rides are the same, you only ask for more peanuts or pretzels. Laughing is what you do best. It isn't very hard to make you laugh and you think I'm a pretty funny lady. Lately you have had a mind of your own. You tell me what you want to wear, what radio station to listen to, what you want to eat, and if you don't want to eat it you tell me Grandma Sue is coming to pick you up. You adore your Aunt Chelsea (your snoopsy poopsy, Chelsea Belsea) and think that you are going to go to school with her one day, which the day will come very soon that you will get to start preschool. You think you need to check your email once a day, you can call family by yourself, and you take pictures with my camera by yourself. I love that you sleep fabulously even though it took awhile to get to that point. It is fun for you to go shopping with mom even when it's a rainstorm outside and you have recently discovered that you like the snow. I hope that you love us for a long time and stay sweet! Today you looked at me and said, "Mom, here is my pinky and my pointer finger, and they are saying I love you!" All you were missing was the thumb (sign language I love you), but it was the sweetest thing. You got more calls for your birthday today than anyone else I know and they were all from your family and a bunch from my friends. You are loved by everyone to infinity and beyond! Happy Birthday Joe Bo bear! We love you the mostest!