Almost 3

The Boy is almost 3.  His birthday in in a little more than 2 weeks.  Birthdays and I don't get along for some reason.  I think partly because I tend to forget about them until its too late.  My siblings and nieces and nephews and even my husband can attest to this.  I'm just a forgetful sort of person when it comes to these days.  Maybe there is some deep down thing that a psychologist would like to discover stemming from the fact that my family often failed to recognize my birthday even though it was only 3 days after my oldest sister's.  Indeed it was forgotten more years after I turned 10 than it was remembered.

Anyway, The Boy's birthday is soon, and he wants a "Mitkey Mou Hou Ting".  Confused?  Me too.  Looking online the only Mickey Mouse Clubhouse playset I can really find is $60-ish.  Yikes.  I'm not even sure where the boy has come up with this idea of a Mickey Mouse House thing.  We normally don't even watch Mickey Mouse or even advertisements that are on during the shows we do watch.  But he repeats over and over that he wants a Mickey Mouse House Thing. 

This is where I wonder if 3 is too old to be able to fool him by making a Mickey Mouse cake and having Mickey Mouse plates and cups.  Maybe buy him a number of Mickey Mouse toys and accessories so that he doesn't realize he didn't get the mysterious Thing he keeps asking for? 

I know I have to step up for this birthday.  The third is generally one we celebrate well.  Actually, the 3rd is the birthday we all go to Boise to celebrate, but I don't think we'll be doing that this year.  So I really do have to be serious in planning Boy's birthday and getting him something he remotely wants.  And this creates a huge feeling of stress and fear.  I mean he'll probably be scarred for life if I screw this up, right?