We had a “Choo Choo” birthday party for Gates last weekend. It was a lot of fun having friends and family over to help celebrate. The weather could not have been more perfect. Gates had a blast playing with his friends but I think his favorite part was eating cupcakes. He kept helping him-self to the mini cupcakes until we had to pull him away kicking and screaming after eating 4. For his first birthday I thought it was really important to keep his birthday special but small and simple. For some reason I got carried away with this birthday and set the bar pretty high for future birthdays. It was all worth it though because every one including Gates and myself had a blast.
Playing in his choo choo train with his buddy.
Singing happy birthday.
Blowing candle out
Gates was really good at ripping open all of his gifts.
Teddy and Jack where the train engineers.
Party inspirations came from http://www.hostessblog.com/2010/07/real-parties-modern-train-birthday/ and the train idea came from http://mrmcgroovys.com/shopcontent.asp?type=Project%20Plans%20Gallery.
I will never throw away a large box again with out making something fun out of. Gates loves playing in the card board box train we made for the party. We didn’t use the rivets though. I assembled the train with some tape and a lot of wood glue we already had on hand. It is really sturdy, it survived the party with some pretty rowdy 5 year old boys climbing all over it. It took me a couple of days to assemble and paint. I used just regular craft glue and it surprisingly only took one large bottle of each color. I am thinking we might need some more boxes to make a rocket or maybe a fire truck next time.
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