Thing 1 and Thing 2 would not listen to me, and decided to turn 2 even against my advice to stay babies for a little while longer. And since I couldn't stop them, we had a great birthday weekend full of trains, friends, family, cake, and gifts.
On their birthday, we spent the morning lounging around and opening a few presents. They love playing kitchen, so we got them their very own little kitchen set up and they LOVE it!!
Yeah, our boys are rarely fully dressed. Especially on lazy mornings. It's just too much work with two : ). I think the adorable diapers work as an outfit anyway!
Then I made them a Fishing Hole game I found over here. They have been fishing non-stop and love to show us what they caught!
"Momma!!!" Translated to, look what I caught!
A little birthday loves on the way to lunch. They love to hold hands in the car or the stroller until one gets tired of it and starts screaming. Which, of course, causes the other one to hold on tighter. So, it's cute while it lasts.
We went to Fritz's for lunch at Crown Center which was a smashing hit. I wasn't sure we'd even get them to eat because they were so busy watching all the trains and letting us know when a new one was coming out. (Fritz's is a local restaurant that uses motorized trains to bring the food to guests. It was started during WWII - I think- when the owner didn't have enough workers to service the tables.)
After lunch, we walked out on a bridge connected to Union Station that crosses over the "real" train tracks. Luckily, after a few minutes of waiting, a big freight train came through and we got to watch it rumble right underneath us. The boys were mesmerized and just stood and stared as it passed.
The next evening was their party, and we were lucky enough to have about 20 of our closest friends and family sharing with us in the festivities. The boys had so much fun seeing all their family and close friends from church. We ate some food, opened lots of presents, watched the fabulous movie S makes each year of the previous year's highlights, and ate some yummy cake.
I have always made the boys' cakes, but I started branching out of the typical molded cake frosted with stars when Bub turned 5. He was having a pirate themed party, and he had to have a pirate ship cake to match. So I created this for him and it's still one of my favorites.
The next year, our party was all about Legos. So I scanned a Lego guy and blew it up on the copy machine and then traced the cake around it. The babies were only 3 months old, so I'm still not sure how I pulled this off.
This was Thing 1 and Thing 2's 1st birthday cake. They each had their own monkey cakes to smash/eat.
But this year, I was in a bit over my head. I saw a cake with four different Thomas engines coming out of tunnels and I knew that's what I wanted to make. Needless to say, I've never covered a cake in fondant before or made train engines and covered them in fondant...but why not??
By Wednesday, the four trains had become two and I was totally fine with that.
So, we had Thomas and Percy coming out of tunnels.
I have never been so happy to have a birthday cake done as I was this year. S estimated I spent about 20 hours on prep time (practicing) and the actual making of the cake. But the boys loved it and went crazy when they saw the trains coming out of the tunnels, so it was all worth it in the end!
Even though it has been hard watching my babies turn 2 and enter the world of being toddlers, I am blessed every day by my three boys and so excited to watch them grow up together.
So, in the immortal words of Thing 1 and Thing 2 " I Two!!!"
