Each Day Something New: Let's Celebrate!

The boys had a fun morning playing with Grandma and Papa which helped Scott and I get ready for Liam's birthday party. Liam opened his presents from Grandma and Papa and then played trains for the rest of the morning. He's becoming quite the train fan! Karsten would say 'Liam, can I play with that train' and in a sweet voice, Liam would say 'Noooo' as he grabbed the train away. Luckily, Karsten settled for playing with his name train.

I put out one of Liam's presents before the party and he decided he wanted to open it... right then. I couldn't think of a good reason why that was a bad idea, so we let him open it. Better to spread out the opening so he could play with toys more when he wasn't overwhelmed with all the great new toys!

I tried all day to get a picture of him smiling in his birthday shirt that my mom made. The little stinker has been watching his big brother and is now a master at not looking at my camera. I think this is still pretty cute.

Last night I realized I hadn't planned any decorations for the party, so my Silhouette and I made this cute little sign.

We had Liam's favorite things for dinner - hot dogs, homemade mac and cheese and green beans. He ate it all and asked for 'mo'.

Karsten and Eden are so cute sitting in these chairs and talking. They're in their own little world.

I am in love with Karsten's cake. I used All Occasion Cakes and could nolt have been happier with the results. I found this adorable Thomas birhday train (see his hat!) and one of his cars was a light up birthday cake.

How cool is this - didn't she do amazing?

Family picture time! Trent and Taylor did a great job making Karsten smile and they got Liam to look at the camera. I'll consider this a win!

When we sang to Liam, he froze and stood there smiling. He wasn't so sure why everyone was watching him and singing, but I think he liked it.

Another shot of the cake, this time with a candle.

The birthday boy!

He was excited and ready to blow out his candle!

After the candle was out, he said 'mo mo mo, me!'

So we lit the candle again and this time Karsten helped blow out the candle!

Enjoying his cake!

Then it was present time. I think present time is tough for little guys because they want to play with the presents as soon as they are open and don't understand why we keep trying to give them other presents to open. He wanted this airplane out as soon as he saw it.

Grandma made him this beautiful quilt!

I love the colors in this quilt!

Posing on the new quilt! He was playing with his new card from Jenn and family on the quilt - I'd say he liked it!

Unfortunately, Gaga wasn't able to be here for Liam's party, but she sent him a box full of fun presents with adorable Disney wrapping paper. We had fun pointing out Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse before we opened it.

Karsten has one of these giant Thomas pillows and loves it. Liam has never gotten to play with it because Karsten won't let him close to it. :) He'll have fun with one of his very own!

I wanted to get pics of the birthday boy with the grandparents, but it didn't work out quite like I had planned (shocker!). This was the best I got with everyone's eyes open.