Sweet Pea turns 3!

Sorry I’ve been missing in action again lately. A combination of strange, suddenly shocking muscle spasms in my shoulders, colds in the family and the holiday combined with Sweet Pea’s third birthday have had me putting things on the back burner. (I confess I don’t like to schedule posts too far out in advance, so there was nothing to fall back on.)

3 Year Old Sweet Pea!

Little Engineer

Printed and original signs

One of the many toy trains

Diesel train cake

Cousins playing trains

It’s a little hard to make a second birthday party with the train theme unique, but instead of going with the steam trains, like last year, we made a diesel train cake and decorated with pictures of all sorts of trains and an assortment of train-related signs (low-quality and from various places on the internet, printed onto paper and taped to the walls). My mom and I made a train-themed centerpiece for the food table, which I think turned out pretty cute!

Centerpiece

My RR Crossing masterpiece (not!)

Cricut assisted trains

We also set out oodles of toy trains on almost every flat surface in the main three rooms of the party. And of course, train music was playing with announcements such as “Attention passengers, please do not flush the toilet while the train is in the station.” All of this with the promise to Sweet Pea that he would get to play with his Daddy’s trains after the party was done and everyone went home.

Daddy’s trains!

When it came time to open the gifts Hubby asked if he’d like to open them to which he replied, “No, you open them. I want to play with your trains.” He finally managed to open the gifts, with a prompt thank you to each gift-giver and then, much to Sweet Pea’s delight, the trains came out! Which meant, of course, Cutie Pie got to play with all the new toys because Sweet Pea was too busy to notice!

I can’t believe my little baby is 3! However, he says “I’m one and I’m not a big boy, but a little one!”