Birthday Fun

Happy Birthday, Malachi! You are 3 years old.

Malachi's birthday presents (Lightning & Mater Chair, Mickey Mouse figurines, and a pirate counting book) waiting on him this morning

This is the first time that I remember Malachi truly interested in opening all the presents himself and looking at them all. He had a blast!

Birthday breakfast with his little brother

Since Malachi's birthday is today, and Wednesdays are always SUPER BUSY for the Honeycutt house (especially Dad), I wrapped the presents that we had for him and opened them first thing in the morning. He'll get lots more presents at his party on Saturday. Since Daddy was busy today, we met Malachi's good friend Kyla for lunch and a stroll around the mall. He seemed to have a really good time. We also turned our free (thanks Pastor A & K) double stroller into a triple. You see Kyla's Mommy didn't realize that the car that she had didn't have a stroller, SO we laid down the back seat and let Kyla & Malachi sit together. They always enjoy that. Malachi opted to get out after a few minutes and walked beside the stroller.

On Monday, we got Malachi the other part of his present. We went to Build-A-Bear where Malachi chose an elephant (only b/c they didn't have an alligator) to make and wanted it to have a race car suit. While we were stuffing the elephant, Malachi put his bop inside the animal. We both knew that he totally didn't understand, but it was time. So, now he is not sleeping with a pacifier. Unfortunately, that also means that he is not sleeping much (period). He was up until midnight Monday night and 11pm last night. He's done a lot of crying for that bop, but we're not giving in. We should have done it a long time ago, but we knew it would be difficult, and we would lose some sleep. Last summer was an awful time b/c Malachi was sick a lot, and we were remodeling our torn-up foreclosure purchase. Now, it is ok if I don't sleep because I don't have to get up at 6am to get ready to go to work. I'm just tired and not getting all the painting and organizing done that I had hoped. It will come, and potty training has been put on hold until Malachi has come to complete terms with losing his bop.