The White House

What a great day we had with our Birthday Boy — The Mighty Quinn! We started off with the train table (which lasted almost all day). Then some of Grams\’ famous Apple Pancakes for breakfast (I think this is a new birthday morning tradition). Last year Quinn was not happy about his bday cake, candles, or the singing so we decided to do a trial run at breakfast. Quinn seemed to know exactly what to do (not sure how – Sesame Street?) and blew out the candles. Breakfast should always be this fun!

As you probably know, Quinn is Thomas the Tank Engine c-r-a-z-y! So a Thomas Train cake was in order. I worked on this pretty hard and I have to admit it looks pretty good from about 5 feet away 😉 Just don\’t get too close. The Thomas face is pretty good too (I freehanded it out of fondant).

Quinn was pretty intrigued and fascinated by the cake too. He was sitting on the barstool checking it out. I think he wanted to do much, much more to/with the cake.

We were lucky that Marlini could join in on Quinn\’s Feliz Cumpleanos. She had breakfast with us and then helped out until it was nap time. I know Quinn loved having here there too.

Papa Rocks!

Here\’s Quinn munching on some strawberries.

Chugga Chugga Choo Choo — hop aboard because Quinn is TWO!!! I think all of Quinn\’s dreams came true this morning when he walked in to his playroom and his Thomas train table was loaded with tracks. He walked in and said \”wow!\”.

Here\’s a picture of the table and Quinn heads down. We could not get him to look up for a picture — he was so engrossed!

Can you tell he\’s saying \”Choo! Choo!\”

The train table was a hand-me-down from Joanne (and Jameson) Taylor. Joanne gave us the table when they were moving from SoCal and I was still pregnant. At the time we had no idea how valuable of a gift she was giving us. Now we couldn\’t think of a better gift! Thanks again Joanne!

Here\’s our little conductor. I really don\’t think there is a cuter kid on the planet 🙂 This birthday outfit will double as a halloween costume.

Happy Birthday Mighty Quinn!

This morning as Quinn was climbing the stairs he counted from 1 to 10 with no mistakes! Amazing! Looks like he'll have his fathers mad math skills.

(here's a pic of him playing in the mulch — he was too busy to look at me)

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