Slade is 3!
Here are a 20 things about Slade.
1. He LOVES trucks! Any and every kind of truck; he can name just about every kind of construction equipment and he especially likes garbage trucks (he asked Santa for one).
2. He is obsessed with his sister. He always needs to know where “Madie Woo” is and when she cries he will always tell her that it is alright and will give her one of his toys to play with.
3. Although he is ALL boy he has a very sensitive side. If someone is sad on TV he gets very sad and says something like “that man sad, he loves that boy”.
4. He loves Vicks vapor rub, even when he is not sick. If he sees the Vicks he will come over to me and pull his shirt up to have me rub some on his tummy or back.
5. He loves going to Aunt Julie’s house. Whenever we ask him what he wants to do that weekend he always says “go to Juwee’s house”
6. He is a very picky eater! Right now all that we can get him to eat is sweets, pancakes, and chicken nuggets.
7. He wants to watch the Barbie movies (I have some at home) in the worst way but Ben won’t let him.
8. He always wants to help me pick out what I am going to wear that day. When I am getting ready in the morning he will always come in my closet and tell me that he will pick out a shirt for me. Then he proceeds to pull about a dozen other shirts off the hanger and lets them lay on the floor.
9. During church he yells at the kids that are being noisy to be quiet, he obviously doesn’t get that yelling is noisy.
10. After he gets done wrestling with Dad he says that his muscles are bigger.
11. He loves to sing and dance. If a song he likes comes on the radio in the car he bops his head along with it and if you try to change the station he gets really mad.
12. He loves to cook. The minute he sees me making dinner he asks for his stool and insists on helping. He loves to pour ingredients in and stir things. If we are making something that needs to be flipped he is ecstatic!
13. He likes to dust. Whenever I get the duster out he throws a fit until I let him get the “yucky dust”.
14. He would eat a billion Flintstones vitamins in one day if we would let him. He always tries to trick us into giving him extra “bitamins”.
15. He hates it when people are angry with each other; he always tries to fix the problem.
16. The first thing he does in the morning after he has got his chocolate milk and had cartoons turned on is build a gun out of his duplos. He then spends most of the day running around the house shooting the deers, elks, aaaaaaaaaantelopes, and bigfoots.
17. He didn’t say anything but GAAAAAA until he was 2.
18. He told our Stake President that Daddy has a cute bum.
19. Whenever he helps you do something and you thank him he says “yep I am a cop, I help people”.
20. He loves Sponge Bob, Transbormers, and Cars. When Sponge Bob comes on he screams the theme song at the top of his lungs and then “plays” his nose like a flute.
We love you mister punk! We hope you have a great birthday!!!
...The highly discussed garbage truck cake. It didn't turn out like I wanted but Slade liked it so that is all that matters. He was also excited that that he got to keep the toy garbage truck. 
...Blowing out the candles. He got kind of embarrassed and kept covering his face. 
... Slade with his new bike. 
... I think she likes it.
Madie is officially sitting up now. She is a little wobbly if she turns to look at something to fast but other then that she does pretty good. She also lays on her belly and pushes up on her arms. She seems so frustrated that she can't get herself to move foward. She tries to go for a toy in front of her but just ends up scooting back until she has managed to wedge herself under the couch. She is close though, Wednesday night we caught her up on all fours rocking back and forth. So cute but she just seems to little to be getting ready to crawl. 
This is Madie all ready for church. She looked so cute and was so smiley we couldn't help but take her picture. 
Here is Slade that same morning. We always have to bring his magna doodle to church with us, as you can see he was not going to let us forget it. Then all through sacrament meeting he makes Ben draw him trucks, bikes, guns, all kinds of construction equipment and best of all... bigfoots (again, thanks Papa Ron). 
Slade with his "gun" shooting the deers, elks, and Bigfoots. 
Finally (this one is my favorite) Every morning while Ben and I are getting ready the kids lay on the bed watching cartoons just like this. If Slade doesn't like his little sister it is hard to tell!