Coobie's 3rd Birthday

Our baby is now a big three-year-old and is pretty pleased with himself! This year his birthday fell in the middle of finals week at vet school when James pulled all nighters night after night to get the grades he wanted. Right after midnight, Coobie woke up while James was getting ready to head back up to school so we all spent a happy 30 minutes jumping on our bed and cheering for our little birthday boy. Then James left to study by himself and the boys and I went back to sleep in our warm bed without him.

Our second start to the day found our whole house decorated for our birthday boy and he was thrilled!

Coobie was of course wearing his zebra pants at the time

We even found zebra balloons for our zebra lover

For breakfast, we had Rudolph pancakes:

Every good Rudolph pancake needs extra sugary sprinkles

In the afternoon, we headed over to the one theater in town and watched Frozen so that we could fit in with the rest of America. Coobie was smitten!

After the movie, we headed home for cake and ice cream and presents galore!

Zebra cake!

When it was time to open presents, we wrapped his first present in a leftover diaper we had and told him that it was a dirty baby Agnus diaper (a cute little girl in our ward that we would watch from time to time). We didn't realize that it would make him cry. Whoops! Luckily, once he found his zebra toy inside, his cheery mood returned and forgave us.

Another let-down came when he got a huge package from California that mostly was filled with a skunk costume that we loaned out and was returned with his present.

McCabe wanted a Rudolph pinata so we did our best to deliver.

Since it was so cold again outside, we beat his little rudolph to a pulp indoors.

It was a happy day! We love our McCabe!