I missed most of Charles’ birthday because of a bad stomach flu. Charles got a lot of cars, which he liked. One of them is so cool that it has replaced his normal pile of cars as his night cuddle toy.
Mom also got him a big rug with a city and roads printed on it. Charles immediately loaded it up with most of his new cars. He carefully parked the cars in the little parking spaces on the rug (yes, he can barely talk and isn’t potty trained but parking spaces - those he understands).
We didn’t have anyone over for the birthday party, which given the state of the household was for the best. Charles isn’t the most social child and so we thought that he probably wouldn’t appreciate guests too much. Maybe when he’s four. He did have a party at daycare on Friday,so he wasn’t totally cut off. Mom also got him a cake with a road-side scene frosting and a toy fire engine. It was all Mom could do to keep Charles from grabbing the fire engine before he blew out the candles. Charles quite liked the cake - as soon as he was downstairs this morning he started asking about it. Sadly, Dad doesn’t feed cake to little boys for breakfast so Charles had to eat normal breakfast food.