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It's hard to believe that 3 years ago I became a mother. I still remember holding him for the first time after a long labor. I was exhausted because I didn't get much sleep. But there he was, straight from heaven right into my arms. On Saturday the 14, we tried to make that whole day special for him. I was up already because I had a class meeting online at 8 am. I heard him crawling down the hall barking like a dog for fun. (almost as if he could sense the excitement for the day) When he came in the living room we sang happy birthday to him. I hugged him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. Then I asked him if he wanted a bath. (His favorite activity in the world!) He had so much fun "swimming" as he calls it. I got him dressed along with cassie. I was going to go get the ingredients for Navajo Tacos. Cory said that he would watch him as he worked on a project that I'll tell about when it's done. So cory set Neve loose to play with Deven and me and Cassie were off. After we came back I found Deven in Neve's dog house. He has this habit of "cleaning" it out.We put straw down for our dog to sleep on when it's cold out. Deven thinks that it doesn't belong in there. So I took him out and got him cleaned up again. About this time my parents showed up. We started cutting stuff up and preparing dough. An hour later people started showing up and everything just came together.The party them was based on Disney's Cars. His favorites are Lightning McQueen and Mater. The decorations centered around those two and so did the games. We played pin the car on Mater's hook so he can tow him. We did the fishing game and a pinata. My sister-in-law made a cute Cars cake that was a race track. This was the first birthday that deven was able to blow out his own candle. After he did that I took the toy cars off the cake and it was funny because he was going to race them around the cake race track! I thought he would do that! After he opened all his gifts we found that we had Cars coming out our ears! I did appreciate the change up of the homemade theater that the Hinojosa's made and the clothes that both grandma's got. We are guilty too because we got him a Cars bicycle. He was super excited to see that. He had a good birthday and loves everything that he got. He especially likes the Mylar balloons that my brothers got him. He takes them by the end of the string and runs with them. He even says "Ready, set, GO!" It's cute!