Eli's Third Birthday Party

Eli's third birthday was January 31st, but since we were traveling on his birthday, we did his party in February. He has been really into trains lately, and he especially loves Thomas and Percy (which were recently introduced to him and Kolby when they got some Thomas toy trains for Christmas from my mom). He wanted a Thomas the Train party, so I made an attempt at decorating a cake with Thomas on it (it didn't turn out professional-looking or anything, but the kids liked it a lot). The main event at the party was getting out the train set and letting all the kids play with it (I think that at this age most of the kids are too young to really get into organized party games, and they are too much work to organize, so playing with trains seems good enough to me). And then he opened presents. You can see in the pictures that the coveted gift by the kids at the party was the ice cream cone that launched the foam "ice cream" ball into the air at the push of a button, from Jordan and Carter Hedgecock -- each kid wanted a turn shooting the ball. Eli loved all of the nice gifts from his friends and had a lot of fun playing with everyone and eating cake and ice cream. I love doing these little birthday parties for the boys, especially while they are so young and it takes so little to please them.

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