Choo Choo Hunter is 2!

Wow! Just wow! I cannot believe that our son is 2 already. Where did the time go?

We celebrated Hunto's big second birthday this weekend and it was a hit! We planned a small(ish) open house party for him at our house and it worked out great. At first I was a little worried about having all those people over in our small(ish) house, but it worked out fine. All that worry for nothing. We had friends and family come over and celebrate with us and because it was open house style, people were coming and going all day. Perfect.

I'm really glad that we had the party at our house too. We had rented the local daycare for his first birthday, which was fine, but I much preferred hosting the party at our own house this year. Much more personal and much more relaxed.

We had a Thomas the Train theme and one of my favourite things that we did for his birthday was the Train Cupcake Cake. I got the idea from here.

Silly me, I should have taken some more pictures of the assembly of the cake, but I was rushing to get it all done before the guest arrived.

Here are the steps to make the cake:

1. Ask mother-in-law to make cupcakes for the train cake. 
2. Forget about asking her and buy more cupcakes the day before the party. 
3. Have a bunch of extra cupcakes for the party
4. Buy Thomas the Train engine for the cake. 
5. Take engine out of the box the night before and let Hunto play with it. 
6. Search for Thomas the Train Engine in the toy box the next morning.
7. Buy 2 boxes of vanilla cookies, 2 boxes of chocolate cookies, and 1 box of lemon crackers (or something similar), and some frosting.
8. Put 2 stacks of 2 vanilla cookies together (for a total of 4 cookies) to make the base of the "cart"
9. Lay lemon cracker on top
10. Frost 4 chocolate "wheels" and stick to the side of the cart
11. Place cupcake on cart
12. Realize that you have too many cupcakes and not enough carts. 
13. Lay cupcakes in between carts
14. Decorate the cupcakes with left over Halloween candy
15. TaaDaa!!! A Train Cupcake Train

It worked out great and everyone loved it! Although when it came time to blow out the candles, Hunto and I had to walk around the cake a few times to get all the candles. 

Happy 2nd Birthday Hunter, Mommy and Daddy are so proud of you and we love you lots! Can't wait for all your coming birthdays and watching you grow into a little man!

Muah! xoxox