Zane's 3rd Birthday

Zane is 3 years old! He celebrated by inviting family and friends to his house. The little ones played, ate cake and ice cream, opened gifts and whacked on a pinata. Zane liked all his gifts and had a really good time.

Since I'm writing about this more than a month after the occasion, I can't really remember what all happened.

I'm not sure if this was the day that Zane rode his big wheel out on the road. It might have been after everyone left...or it might have been on a different day. Anywhooo, whenever it was...he had been riding on the driveway as usual. He is supposed to turn around when he gets to the front side walk. The adults were talking and when they looked up, Zane was on the road in front of the house, just pedaling along. Kelly took off after him, yelling for Zane to stop. Zane ignored him. Kelly yelled to him that when he caught him he was going to get a spanking. At that, Zane started pedaling as fast as he could. Not fast enough, though. His daddy caught up with him and Zane had to suffer the consequences.

Zane's grasshopper and other things

One afternoon Zane caught a little green grasshopper and held onto it for about an hour. He held it while he played on the slide and in the sand. I asked him whether he thought the grasshopper liked being held like that. He replied, "He likes me!" He passed it off to Gage at one point and I think a grasshopper leg might have come detached at that point. Finally, it was sufficiently squished that he let go of it and went to wash his hands.

Zane and Gage practiced swimming in their little pool. Zane still doesn't like to get his face wet. Gage showed him how to blow bubbles. They both wore their water goggles. Zane didn't quite get how to wear them out of the water.

Gage needed to perform on the monkey bars, so here's a video of that.

Kelly's birthday

We celebrated Kelly's birthday at their house. Gage and Zane had carefully selected gifts that they felt he would enjoy...Star Wars characters, I think.

You can see in the video that Kelly was a very good sport...wearing the birthday boy crown and all!