Vroom, choo-choo, zoom to 2.

Today we celebrated Luke's 2nd birthday with a party complete with cars, trains, and planes. Luke hosted 9 lil' friends for the birthday bash. Here are some highlights. The kids enjoyed watching the Lionel electric model train (operated by Grandpa Jim the Engineer). My dad received this train as a gift when he was a kid, and now many moons later, it's still chugging along. Each child had their own personalized boxed lunch (with fun names like "Chauffeur Luke" and "Engineer Alec") with some special goodies like stickers and a matchbox car inside. Rather than cake, we made car/train/plane sugar cookies with homemade cookies-and-creme ice cream. We had all the "go-mobiles" out in the garage for kids to pedal and ride: scooter, bike, trike, wagon, etc. Luke really got into the action of blowing out the candles ... three times actually ... twice before we sang "Happy Birthday" even! We waited until after we were done with singing before lighting it again since "Windy Leahy" was ready to go!