Blog Tales from the Broxtermans: Happy Birthday Jacob!!

Jacob turned 3 on Saturday and it was a super fun, eventful day. He didn't complain about his ears once so thank goodness for that! The whole family was here including Nanny and Papa, Grandma and Grandpa, Jacob's cousins Hudson, Hayden and Hallie and his soon-to-be cousins Joshua, Hunter and Brooke (who also turned 3 the exact same day!) Last year, we didn't have any family in town to help us celebrate his 2nd birthday in San Francisco, so Jacob was spoiled with love and attention this year!!

We started the day off by going to the Jump Zone in Southlake for some jumping fun with the cousins. There were a TON of birthday parties going on that morning so Jacob was so confused that all the kids running around there were there to celebrate other kids birthdays and not Jacob's! Whenever they'd announce another birthday, Jacob would start pouting and say, "but it's my birthday!!" I didn't even think that he'd be upset watching everyone else celebrate their birthdays at the same time. We still had a great time and headed home around noon for a much needed nap before the REAL birthday party started at 3:30 pm.

We planned Jacob's birthday party at The Little Gym in Southlake. He took classes there for a long time and stopped when they closed down the location near our house. It just reopened so we jumped on the opportunity to have his party there! Of course it had a Disney "Cars" theme since he is absolutely obsessed with Lightning McQueen. There were 19 kids there to help celebrate!! It was a load of fun and I am so happy we decided to do it there. The instructor was fantastic and all of the kids had a great time. Including the birthday boy -- he was smiling from ear to ear for the entire party! After the party, all the family came back to our house so we could open presents and also have a little celebration for Brookie's birthday. Jacob got so many presents I lost count. Mark and I got him the Leapster game system since he loved playing with it when his cousins (on Mark's side) had visited over Thanksgiving. As soon as he opened it up, he wanted to play with it and didn't want to open anything else! What kid does that??

I was sad to see the day end. Sometimes I think we have more fun on his birthday than he does. :) Now we get to look forward to Maddie's 1st birthday!

At the Jump Zone in Southlake