"Now is it Time for My Party?"

And then he was three.
Cannon loved his Old MacDonald Had a Farm birthday party.  This event was highly anticipated at our house and with the exception of some light rain near the end, it was all we hoped it would be.

We invited the families of his nursery friends and had a great turnout.  Considering that it was Memorial Day weekend we were glad anyone was in town to come.  We had sandwiches, chips, watermelon and veggies.  I didn't want to mess with the mess of birthday cake for little ones so we just had an assortment of hostess cakes.  Kind of gross, but in a tasty way.

He had a grand time and was so impressed with Grandpa Cannon's confetti gun that he fired off after Cannon blew out the candles.  "Hey!  That was a gun shot!"

We wanted to hurry a bit through the presents before the rain started.  We told him he had to wait until we got home to play with the presents.  After two presents he really wanted to play with them so he asked, "Can we go home now?"
It was so fun for me Cannon to get a bunch of cars and trucks for his birthday.  With Clark it was all animals, bugs, and dinosaurs.  I loved it, but we played with animals A LOT!  One time I bought him a Little People City in the hopes that we could get some variation in our play.  Nope.  He just put animals all over the cars and city.  

Our after dinner activity was feeding the ducks and visiting the animals.  The party favor was a loaf of bread!  Grandma and Grandpa Cannon were Cannon's companions and they kept him safe from the rushing creek waters nearby.  Grandpa was very patient with a very energetic 3 year-old!

Grandma Barbara fed the ducks with Faith.  She also royally spoiled Cannon with a battery powered Toy Story 4-wheeler.  We are all so excited to see him ride it--  Clark wants to teach him what to do.  Elinor made up a driver's license for him.

It seems like often times we get together with families that have kids the same ages as our older kids.  It was fun to be with families with younger kids that match up with our littler ones.  Faith and Cannon are good friends with these little cuties.  We quite like the parents as well!

Philip (Abe's brother) and Katie and their 5 boys always add an exciting element to any event!  Katie was so good to stroll George around in her double stroller.  She was doing a trial run of six kids!!

Perhaps you had to be there to appreciate this picture, but Bethany was doing a drunken farmer routine and it was really funny.

  We have great neighbors.  And might I take this moment to plead that no more of my great neighbors decide to move.  Several families are leaving our ward in the next month and I am very sad about it.  I'm especially sad because I will be losing both of my counselors in Primary, plus a whole slew of other Primary workers as well.  Blah.  Blah.  Double blah.

But let's go back to happier thoughts.  He is three.  He is so funny.  I would say I want to pause him right where he is right now, but I'm so curious to see what he'll be like when he's older.   He is my comic relief.  Yesterday at lunch he was "not being appropriate" at the lunch table.  I was going to count to three and then put him in timeout if he didn't stop.  

MOM:  Cannon, that is a one.

CANNON:  That's two! (smiling and laughing)

MOM:  Cannon, please don't be yucky at the table.

CANNON:  1-2-3-4  TIME OUT!!! (said very quickly with hysterical laughing)

Well, I just don't know what to do with that.  As you can imagine, there was no time out.  Point for Cannon.

I'm so glad he is ours. Thanks to everyone who came to celebrate with us!