Noah's Second B'day

We drove to Salem, Illinois to help celebrate Noah's 2nd birthday.  We had planned on leaving on Friday, but the threat of snow here saw us leaving on Thursday instead.  Then came the threat of much snow in St. Louis on Sunday, the day we had intended on coming home.  So we came home late Saturday night.  I think it was around 11:30 before we got here.  It turned out to be a good decision.  I'm told they got lots of snow there and we really didn't want to have to drive through it.

Noah had a really good time on his birthday.  He is a real train buff; yes, even at 2 he loves trains.  He may look like a Beasley, but there is definitely some Barnard blood in the boy.  His birthday was planned around a train theme.  Jeanette made a really cute cake, he got some train-type gifts and she decorated the hallway like a train track for his little train riding toy to follow.  Mix that up with some multi-colored balloons and he was in heaven.

He loved chasing around the balloons.

Toot, toot; here comes the Noah Express!

It was hard to keep up with the cute Hungry Caterpillar cake she made last year, but this train cake was really creative.

I didn't get a good one of him "blowing out" his candles, but here he is checking out the cake.