With families spread across states, and no house to host them in anymore (yay!), Elijah now has the privilege of having more than one birthday party to celebrate. He doesn’t have a problem with this of course. More parties equals more cake!
His first birthday party this year was at Grandma Amanda’s house, with Jon’s family. We headed over there on Friday night and the party was on Saturday. We had a nice relaxed lunch together first (after convincing Eli that cake comes after lunch and presents), and then it was present time! Elijah helped Daddy and Uncle Jeremy clean up his toys and carry in his presents, and then Eli tried to corral the adults in to the living room for the opening. The adults were having a good time talking though, so Eli had to come in to the dining room quite a few times and say, “Present time! Come in here, present time!”
Once the opening began, it was pretty clear that Eli was having a Thomas-themed birthday. He ended up with a whole new setup for his trains, with a big blue suspension bridge, a roundhouse for the trains to sleep in, and Knapford Station (complete with a little announcing microphone that he can use). And he got Cranky the Crane and Salty, so he was on cloud nine. He also got a new blue sand bucket (his was taken at a park and when I replaced it with an orange bucket he was most upset because it wasn’t blue), a new dump truck for his sandbox, and a new game called Feed the Kitty, which we had been looking for everywhere and hadn’t been able to find. And he got a new Cars racetrack, a Thomas game and a Nemo game for his Clickstart computer.
There was a big difference in opening presents this year from last year. Last year Eli opened one and wanted to play and then not open anymore. This year he knew that there were MORE presents to be seen and would open one, look at it for about 5 seconds then put it to the side and grab for the next one. He was sidetracked by Cranky the Crane for a minute or two but then was off and ripping open again. Once all the presents were opened though he asked, “Can we open this one?” for each of his presents. I think we had everyone opening something and getting it out for him!
Eli got so caught up in presents and playing that when the adults said it was cake time he said, “No, I’ll have my cake tomorrow.” We had to talk him in to having cake; that’s how excited he was about his presents! We did get to eat cake though – another train cake by Mommy, with help from Eli this year. Eli put the M&Ms on the big train wheel and the front of the train. And he insisted on being RIGHT NEXT TO MOMMY while she was decorating (imagine how well that worked when I was piping icing, and you’ll understand why the cake this year isn’t as nice as last year). :) Eli was very proud of our cake though, and did a great job blowing out the candles (another improvement over last year when he wasn’t quite sure about those candle things). He ate only the frosting though (camera battery was gone so I don’t have pics of him), and then wanted more cake. Since it was his birthday we gave in. You can eat as much frosting as you want on your birthday, that’s a rule in our house!
Choo-choo train cake!
I made Mom put a 6 on it instead of a 3.
My proudest moment as a Mommy came when Elijah was saying goodbye to Grandpa Bob and Grandma Sherry. He gave them a big hug and then said, without any previous coaching by us, “Thank you for my wonderful presents!” I was stunned! What a polite little boy. He must have good parents. :) And that was a great end to a great party! What a fun day!
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