Happy Birthday Porter!!!

Today my baby turned three years old. I can hardly believe it. Time has completely flown by since he was born. He has been such a blessing to our family. It has been so fun to have such a great little boy as part of our family. He is such a little ball of energy and is always getting into things, but we wouldn't have him any other way.

We have been telling Porter for the past couple of days that his birthday was coming up. He didn't quite understand the whole time line, but last night Nate told him that he needed to get into bed and when he woke up it would be his birthday. Well, at two o'clock this morning I heard him come out of his room and climb up onto the side of my bed. He put his face right in mine, mind you it was dark, and whispered, "Mom, today is my birthday." I said, "I know, but it is still the middle of the night and still time to sleep. Get back in bed." He quickly used the bathroom, I tucked him back in and he was fast asleep...that is until around 6:45 or so. I thought that I heard him come out of his room, but I was still partly asleep. I then heard his room door close and I figured that he had gone back to bed because everyone was still asleep. Nope! 7:30 rolls around and he climbed back onto the side of my bed and showed me his mouth. It was full of something very sweet smelling. I asked him what it was and he promptly replied, "Candy". Great. I rolled (and I do mean rolled) out of bed and went to see what he had gotten into. I had just purchased a box of fruit-by-the-foot last night and had mistakenly left it out on the counter. Porter found it this morning and took it into his room and consumed five of them. Needless to say, this is how Porter started his birthday morning.

Poor guy.

Thank goodness the rest of the day went well. We let him open a couple of presents before we headed out to church. He was so excited to take his new "guy" with him.

After church was over he was able to open the rest and we had cupcakes and ice cream to top off the day. He got spoiled by his grandparents, as usual.

Thanks everybody for the nice gifts. He loves them. And Happy Birthday, Porter. We love you!