Yippy Yippy LEVI'S THREE!

. October 12, 2013 .

Our first born precious Son-
Levi Elliot was born THREE YEARS ago in good ol' North Carolina.

My heart rejoices and is sad all at the same time.
I am going to choose to focus on the REJOICE part so as to not stay sad too long about how quickly time passes.

Every day this little guys  brings JOY beyond measure into my life
(He also gives me many opportunities to practice: patience, grace, unconditional love, etc...)
In it all, I REJOICE and am overflowing with GRATITUDE to a loving Father who saw it fit to allow me to be his Mama.

Ok ok ok- onto the party and fun :)
Well it's been three years and guess what Levi STILL loves?????
CARS!!!!!
So we stuck with the "car" theme:

One of my favorite memories of this year's birthday is whenever anyone would ask Levi how old he was going to be, he would respond:

"I be TRIANGLE"

(*TOTALLY unprompted- he did this ALL on his own. But you know this Math Teacher Mama was SO PROUD!)

We formed teams and played games on each side of our "race track" we made in the living room:

Everyone colored their own "steering wheel" and

 we played Pin the Steering Wheel on the Car

Everyone gathered around and we sung Happy Birthday and watched Levi blow his candles out.

(Something this little guy has looked forward to for a while- He LOVES to sing Happy Birthday and blow out candles.  And OF COURSE eating cake. hahaha)

I Love him SO MUCH!

 

Then it was PRESENT time:

(He had all the assistance he could need ;)

 

"Oh no she DIDN'T... wait... YES SHE DID! Aunt Buff bought me a THOMAS train!!!!!"

~Levi

 

*This face brings so much JOY to my heart :)

Thanks Aunt Buff for knowing my little boys so well!

This was such a tender moment captured:

Levi opened his gift from his friends- 

Sarala, Sam (pictured left), Jackson (pictured right), Parks, and Wint

It was the PLANES book and as soon as he opened it- Sam just opened it up and began reading it to Levi- Isn't that SO SWEET?!?!?!

I may LOVE that he thinks books are so much fun :)

Happy 3rd Birthday Levi!

You have grown in SO MANY ways over this past year.

You have become a Big brother, a quite fantastic one at that.

You have continued to adapt to South Asia so well.

You talk up a storm :) and never cease to amaze us with what new things come out of your tiny mouth

You always make Mama & Papa laugh (Riley Jo, too)

You love to laugh.

You love others SO well.

Mama & Papa LOVE you more than we can say, sweet boy.

And we count it an HONOR and PRIVILEGE to call you Our Little Boy!