Matt, Tana, and the Boy's: My little boy is 3!!

I can't believe I have a 3 year old. I love watching this little man. You just look at him and can see his little mind spinning with new knowledge. He loves to figure things out on his own and on his own time line, too. He wants to be like his dad. He wants to help fix things, make things and do things like his dad. He loves to help me with the house and to help me cook. He loves his little brother more then anything else. He's always there to to help him and to protect him and to give him the occasional sucker punch :).

At Age 3, Ammon....... Loves to go out with Daddy to shovel snow. He loves to read books, pointing out facts about characters of the book that aren't necessarily related to the story. He loves tweats (treats) and one of his most used daily phrases is, "Mommy, can I have a tweat?" to which the reply is usually go ask your dad. He loves to play catch, and will throw just about anything:). He is always after us to go play outside, even when its freezing out. He is bashful around just about anyone for at least 15 minutes, but warms up pretty quickly when he realizes they're not a threat. He really enjoys helping cook, especially getting to add ingredients like flour (the most messy ones). He is potty trained and loves sporting his cartoon studded underpants and likes to put them on by himself. He always wants to wash himself and gets frustrated when we get the spots that he missed (90% of the surface area). Duck, Duck, Goose is the favored game and it involves running throughout the entire house and would never end if mom and dad didn't get tired. Dad usually does most of the running since I'm is usually holding McKay. Ammon's mouth runs a mile a minute. He talks about anything and everything and often the train of thought is a little tangential. Fire is huge right now. Every night Dad gets a request to start a fire in the family room fireplace. The request is always granted as long as there is wood around. He loves to put logs on the fire (which involves holding them on the way from the bin to just outside of the screen) and to start the fires with the lighter. He often has great ideas about what will burn well and frequently asks "Can we burn this?" Both he and McKay will sit at the fire, mezmorized, for long periods of time. There is always a request to "make it bigger!" He loves his baths, and often wants us out of the bathroom so he can have some privacy. He continues with his lisp that he got straight from his dad that makes his language, at times, difficult to understand. Jumping, Running, twisting, rolling, or any other physical motion has been fully explored. Now he works on doing those things in more impressive ways. He is adorable. There is so much more. Just wanted to leave a sample.

On Ammon's birthday we spent the day flying home from Utah:) Because we knew we would be traveling on his birthday and would be away from friends and family we decided that we would celebrate his birthday early with everyone.

Party #1. Grandma Jones house. We had Michelle and her family with us as well as Brett and his Family. Ammon was so cute opening his gifts. He gets so excited to see what's next. We had a "Cars" theme, which is his favorite movie. We played a little duck duck goose with his cousins and lots of chasing each other around the house. We ended the night with cup cakes and ice cream. It was such a fun night with everyone. I'm so happy we were able to celebrate it with my family. They always make birthdays wroth celebrating.

Party #2. Grandma Pat's house.

More presents at Grandma and Grandpas Nelson's house. We had Sam and his family, Steve and Lauren, and Brad with us. It was a night full of opening gifts and hanging out with the family. Lucky little boy, he got spoil with gifts and more cake and ice cream that night. We were so lucky to be able to spend this time with family again.