Happy Birthday GQ!

The big 3 today!

Three years ago you flew into this world and you havent stopped since. You are charming and sweet. You are a daddy's boy but fight with your brothers saying "MY mommy". You have learned to keep up with your brothers and to stick up for yourself. I love you and am proud to be YOUR mommy. (my facebook status this am)

I can't believe how fast time flies! My facebook status really does say it all. GQ is always on the go lately....so much so that he fights bedtime always worried he will miss something and he is up early every day. Crazy kid. The other night he made himself a bed on the floor. He is a kid with a mind his own. GQ refuses to sleep on his bed some nights.

He had come out of his room and was sent back to bed. I went in to check on him a little while later and this is what I found. Lights on and everything.

This morning we did gifts for GQ for his birthday since Dad has class this afternoon. This school he goes to...I'm telling you. All his classes are at night or weekends. I really wish his classes were NORMAL class hours but I guess they are after the working adults.

GQ is excited to get started.

He loves the transformer robots but most of them are too hard for him to do on his own so he always asks for help to transform them. This one is from Doc and transforms very easily so that he can do it on his own. It turns into a fire truck.

 Mr. X got him some hotwheels because he keeps stealing his brothers' cars. This package even came with one that to him looks like Bumblebee.

Oma got him a shirt and shorts.

And a bean toss game also from Oma and Opa.

Mom and Dad got him a bike with training wheels on it. It's a 12" bike and perfect size for him.

 

He only has a hard time riding it because of the pedaling. He can pedal a trike but for some reason this is giving him some troubles.

GQ is now 3 so that means I am past the infant and toddler stage! I am so excited to have my children growing up and past those stages. Of course each stage brings new challenges. I am so excited to see what this next stage in life holds for us. Happy birthday to my youngest, may you be blessed by all that God has to offer you in this life!

Legoland!

We got a great deal on Legoland tickets so we took the kids out of school on Friday and went. It was a lot of fun! The boys are so into legos and were so impressed with all the lego things built throughout the park. This was their first trip to an amusement park and the first roller coaster ride for Doc and GQ. Mr. X has been on a rollercoaster at the fair but that's about it.

 

Most everything is made completely out of Legos! At least all the figures and stuff.

They had a minicity made out of Legos. The shuttle was Doc's favorite I think.

Made completely out of Legos!

The first rollercoaster we went on. Doc and GQ were able to ride this one. It's the only one GQ could ride but he loved it!

The dinosaur outside Coastersaurus made out of legos.

A model of the rollercoaster car outside Project X.

Doc and I are in the front of this car.

Project X

WB and Mr. X rode in the front of this car. Mr. X wasn't sure about this rollercoaster. It had some sharper turns and one large drop.

Technicycle.

Jr. Driving School

They got Driver's Licenses!

Driving School. Mr. X was old enough for this one.

Duplo Farm play area.

This is a rollercoaster within the Lego Kingdom area. It was Doc's favorite. Unfortunately, it's hard to get a picture of the rollercoaster because of the castle. GQ was too little for this one.

 

Royal Joust

Doc is excited about the ship wreck.

Do you see the ship wreck on the bottom?

Every 8 minutes or so, the shuttle "engines" would start for lift off. Of course it doesn't actually go anywhere but it does send out billows of "smoke".

The treasure chest outside the Pirate show.

 

The pirate show was a water ski show with tricks.

With some acting, dancing, and water-fighting thrown in.

R2D2

Another part of the minicity

Safari Trek

All the animals are made of legos.

Pharoah's Revenge. As we rode through the ride, we had little laser guns to shoot at different things.

It rained while we were there but the kids still had a blast. We actually made good time through the park and were able to do most everything that we wanted to do. We even rode a few of the rides more than once. The kids didn't get overstimulated or cranky until the very end so that was good too (especially considering they were up at 4:45 am and hadn't gone to sleep until 9 pm the night before). The lines had lego stations that you could play at while waiting. The food was a little expensive but it wasn't outrageous like you might expect. The yearly passes are reasonable considering the cost of admission and later this year they will be opening up a water park area as well. We didn't get an annual pass or anything but I was overall pleased with Legoland. I like it better than Disney for sure.