Eli’s second birthday party took place Tuesday, the day after his birthday, at Grandma and Grandpa Koorndyk’s house. Eli and I spent a lot of the day getting ready – we went and picked out some balloons, chose a cake (Mommy wasn’t making two train cakes), and picked up the house together. Elijah was very excited about his cake this time as well. I was thinking we’d just get a regular cake at the store and have them write Happy Birthday on it, but lo and behold, when we got to Meijer’s what did they have on the bottom shelf of the display case but a Lightning McQueen cake! No other cake was going to do after seeing that! So a Lightning McQueen cake it was.
Dinner was a relaxing family affair again, with Grandma and Grandpa Koorndyk, Uncle Jeff and Aunt Lori, Noah, Lexi and Tori all joining us. After dinner the kids wanted to play trains a bit so the adults gabbed, but then Eli decided it was time for presents, and once again called everyone in so he could open his gifts. Another Thomas themed celebration was had, with Eli getting James the engine, Harvey the Crane engine, Annie and Clarabel (Thomas’ coaches for those not up on their imaginary-train relationships), a HUGE Thomas the Tank Engine storybook, and Thomas bath toys.
Eli was so excited to open up his new trains, and it was really funny when he opened up Clarabel (Annie and Clarabel were packaged and wrapped separately). Eli was all excited, then grabbed the next train-sized wrapped gift and said, “Now let’s open Annie!” I don’t quite know how he knew had opened Clarabel vs. Annie already, since none of us had said anything (or could tell), but he knew somehow.
Once again Elijah wanted little to do with cake and wanted to play with his new toys, but we convinced him to at least do the singing and birthday candle thing so we could all eat while he played. I think he must have gotten this no cake eating thing from Jon’s side of the family (judging from the size of the hips on my side it didn’t come from us!). :) Once Eli did eat his cake he got it everywhere, and decided that Lightning had to race all over the top of the cake. Since everyone already had their piece of cake we let him basically destroy the top of the cake with his car. You're only three once, and it's not every day you get to push a race car all over the top of a cake and get frosting everywhere! All and all, another fun birthday party with family, and I think Elijah is enjoying this two birthday party system!
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Happy Birthday Eli!!! Looks like you had some really fun parties and were spoiled with lots of great Thomas stuff!
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