Collin's Birthday

So hard to believe that Collin Patrick is 3.  Here are Collin's Stats from the doctor: 
Weight: 33 pounds....75 percentile
Height: ?.....25 percentile

When at the doctor she listened to his heart over and over and over and over.  Till I finally asked if everything was okay.  Well she was feeling as though she was hearing a skip in his heart beat.  She checked it a few more times and sure enough she still heard it.  So that day she sent us over to have an EKG done on Collin's heart. I must say I thought I had a healthy little dude and the next thing I knew I was watching him get 13 stickies to his chest to check its rhythym.  Luckily it all came back NORMAL:)  Nothing to be worried about....Phew!

What Collin is doing/loves
Collin LOVES...
*the color yellow
*to run....he begs Eric and I after we get home from running to go for a run around the block with him
*to be outside....he could spend every day of his life out there
*to help daddy mow the grass, use the weed eater and the blower
*Chocolate Milk, yogurt, pudding, apples and peanut butter, peanut buttter and jelly, string cheese, apple sauce, pancakes,
*his train table
*Mickey Mouse (STILL), Chuggington, Cailou, Fireman Sam, Cat and the Hat, Olivia,
*to color....he has recently become an excellent colorer.  He really takes his time and almost stays in the lines.
*his monkey, kitty cat, and doggie..they are a must. He really only has to have one, not all three at a time, but you never know which one it may be that day.
*Music...he loves to carry my phone around and listen to Pandora playing the Mickey Mouse channel

Collin can....
*he has a very large vocabulary...no that may just be a biased momma, but he is constantly saying words and phrases that I never knew he knew!  For example, we brought Maracas home from Mexico and he said, Mommy will you please hand me the instrument?  It was so proper:)
*get himself dressed all by himself and put his shoes and socks on by himself....when he wants to!
*make his bed
*put together big puzzles (with a little help)

For Collin's birthday Grandma Shelley came in town and between it being his birthday and having Grandma Shelley come visit he was SO excited!  We pretty much just spent the weekend at the park, hanging around the house and just playing.  I do have to say it wasn't until just a few days before Collin's birthday that Eric and I realized we really had not planned or even bought anything for Collin's birthday.  So we took him to Party City and let him choose whatever "decorations" or theme he wanted.  Of course he went straight to cars.  So....that of course led it to be that I was to make a Lightining McQueen cake!  I do have to say after spending quite some time on it I was pretty impressed with how it turned out:)

Doesn't that look like McQueen:)

My parents came over for cake, presents and icecream that evening since my Dad had just had his surgery they didn't stick around too long.  However Collin was so excited to have them all there celebrating "him"! Here are some of the pics. 

Collin's favorite gift was his "big boy" bike and helmet:)  He gotten so good at riding it and is such a big kid on it.  He rides to the end of the street, stops, look both ways and asks if he can go on.  He makes me feel like he is a 6 year old by doing that!!  How did he grow up so fast already!