We celebrated Max's third birthday last weekend. Saturday the 30th was a relatively quiet day with me and Max shopping and baking. (Rich spent most of the day in the office.) That evening we sang happy birthday over three cupcakes,with plans to have the big cake the next day. That evening I completed the birthday cake for the big party on Sunday and packed up all the decorations, paper plates and such and finished up the cardboard box cars for the party.
On Sunday morning, Max opened his presents which included a new train set with "blue tracks" that he had been asking for for months.
We had 11 kids coming that afternoon and I needed to transfer all the party gear downstairs to the community hall we rented and decorate.
As expected, it was chaotic and a mess, but the kids had a lot of space to run, play with the cars I had schlepped from our apartment, race track, speedway, etc. We decorated cardboard box cars and the girls ended up being more into that than the boys.
The cake was a hit. It was fun and easy to make and Max really liked it. And the kids devoured it so it must have tasted ok as well. More suger-infused running around followed cake time and then the guests trickled home. Our dear friends Fumie and Seiji stuck around to help us clean up and bring every thing back upstairs to our apartment, including a boatload of presents.
We have some extremely generous friends and in addition to other great gifts, Max received additional trains and track sets. His room is now taken over by a pretty big set-up that I put together. (Rich was actually impressed.)
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You definitely need to post a pic of his fabulous new train setup!
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