Happy Birthday, Dylan!!

Happy Birthday, buddy! You're 3 now! It feels like your age has finally caught up to you. You are smart, happy, energetic, and loving. You still love animals, so this year we went to Purina Farms and the Zoo for your family birthday activities. You also insisted on having a "farm" cake and you wanted to play with it more than eat it. Everyone loves your smile and your goodness.

There are many things you enjoy doing. Here are a few of them:
Playing outside
Taking a bath
Watching Kung Fu Panda, Toy Story 2, Land Before Time, Word World
Teasing Colden, and Evelynn
Running...and running...and running
Digging in the dirt
Cutting with scissors
Drawing
Using keys on locked doors and locked drawers
Helping Mom put the clothes in the washer
Jumping...off of anything: the stairs, the couch, the raised flower bed
Playing in the car
Fishing
Swimming "all by myself"
Baking with Mom (especially licking the batter off of the mixer)
Eating Chicken Nuggets, Cheese burgers, bananas, pears, bread, and "peanut butter on a spoon"
Taking naps
Reading stories, and napping with books
Being curious
Playing computer games like Puppet Playhouse, Usborne vocabulary, Wonder Pets Save the Baby Dinosaur
Throwing and catching balls
Getting stickers on your charts
Chocolate (the farm cake had to be chocolate)
Dumping all the toys out of a box to find the one you want
Pretending
Sword fighting
Going to the zoo, the "airplane" park, the "animal" park, the "train" park, the Science Center, the "bird place" (Wild Bird Sanctuary), the Nature Center, Costco, and Mc-an-Donald's
Watching movies with the family

I hope you always enjoy life and find things to smile about. I sure love my happy Dylan!!

Love,
Mom