Happy Birthday, Miles!

Miles turned 3 today so we celebrated all weekend with family visiting from far and wide. He'd picked the sandcastle cake (below) out of a magazine so we had a beachy party complete with sand(box), wavy sprinklers and a kiddie pool. But he also wanted the iPod cake from the same article, so we made it chocolate to match Wayne's black iPod.
We were so glad to have our family visit, especially newlyweds Uncle Kyle & Aunt Megan. They stayed with us on our lovely air mattress and enjoyed super-early wake-up calls from the birthday kid. We laughed with them as we all went to bed at 9 o'clock Saturday night - 8pm in their home time zone! Why did we turn in so early? The hurricane that hit us was not called Fay, but MilesEvanKateKarleyAbbyAudrey. Whew! Amazing that the mobile kids can be outnumbered 4:1 and still manage to wear out every single adult! We did our annual birthday family shot.... (I love the remote control to my camera!!)
Miles got a Big Wheel and LOVES it. He walked in on Wayne assembling it, shouted "What's THAT!??!?" and proceeded to "help". He's been riding it around our circle in the house, finally learning to not crash into things on purpose.
Here are the kids enjoying our (almost) complete breakfast nook. Many meals were enjoyed here this weekend, I'm so glad we added this! We're still going to paint the tabletop a deeper blue chalkboard paint. That will come, someday! And my stain resistant cushions were thoroughly tested by this crew:
We ended the afternoon with some sprinkler fun!
More pictures of the fun to come...