For Aaron’s birthday Elijah helped me make a gluten free cherry pie. (He actually prefers pie to cake, which is a nice change).
For his birthday we got him a bike trailer so he and Elijah can go on bike rides together. Looking fashionably safe in their helmets.
Getting loaded in
Off we go…
It took a few tries for him to get used to it but now he loves going on bike rides with daddy.
The weekend after graduation we all headed to Camp Quarry Ledge in Oswego, IL for the Selle Family Reunion (Aaron’s mom’s side). About 50 people attended and we all had a blast. Below Elijah points out something interesting to Uncle Jack.
Playing trains on the floor with fellow train aficionado cousins Jack and Andrew.
Hug for Grandma Janet. Elijah loves to hug.
Photo of all the “little ones”.
We celebrated two birthdays. Janice Henrickson, the oldest, who turned 80 and Andrew Selle, the youngest, who turned 1. I made the cake on the left. 🙂
Breakfast with Daddy
Fun with homemade playdough
Of course we had to do a little mini celebration on his actual birthday a few days later.
Blowing out the candle…
You’ve gotta love the toilet paper in the background.
This boy loves cake!
We had Elijah’s 2nd birthday party in our new house this year. He loves trains so of course we went with a train theme. Below we are opening a few pre-party gifts so the kids could all play with train sets.
He is very excited!
The cake, all edible fondant over a banana cake with vanilla buttercream.
The cupcakes were chocolate with peanut butter buttercream. Mmmmmm.
Elijah’s best buddy Jackson arrived and they quickly got down to business.
Baby Kennedy slept through the entire party.
Kids playing outside.
Jackson blowing bubbles with daddy.
Cousin Jack playing with trains with his mama Megan.
Elijah’s new friend Katherine playing with play dough.
Her new sister Megan, just hanging out.
Blowing out the candle. Afterwards he said, “more”. He wanted to blow it out again!
Cousin Andrew hanging out with uncle Ron.
Gift time!
Choo choo book!
Jackson and Elijah hugging, adorable!
Elijah also loves airplanes, so we got him an airplane fork at MOMA. He loves eating with it.
Elijah is always trying to play with Aaron’s tools so we got him his own toolset. Jackson and Elijah has a blast checking them out.
Grandpa Guy giving Elijah a ride in his new wagon!
The Saturday of Easter weekend we went to the All Aboard Cafe to celebrate his cousin Jack’s 3rd birthday. It is a brilliant concept, a whole restaurant about trains! All of the kids sit at the counter and a little train drives around and brings them their food. Elijah was fascinated! He actually sat in this chair all by himself.
Here is Jack the birthday boy and his train cake (made by me).
Better shot of the cake…
Elijah and Aunt Rachael
Jack’s dad Aaron who works with my Aaron, and his youngest, Andrew who is almost 1.
Elijah and daddy and someone’s phone.
Kiss for daddy
We celebrated Megan Selle’s birthday in March. Aaron’s second cousin Aaron and his wife Megan have two boys. The oldest Jack below loves Thomas too! He has just about every Thomas train character you can imagine. Elijah had a blast and Jack was great at sharing his toys. I didn’t seem to get a photo of their youngest, Andrew.
This is the cake I made for Megan, red velvet. Mmmm Jack thought these were green worms on the cake and thereafter referred to it as “the cake with worms”. So cute!
Now that we are in Chicago we are only 4 hours away from BG. So we visit a lot. We decided to go in September for my birthday and the annual Black Swamp Festival. Here I am blowing out all 30 candles on my very own birthday cake, made by Janet.
Walking around Black Swamp
Playing the drums
Hanging pipe xylophone
He loves guitars, especially when daddy plays. He was very exited to find one his own size.
Playing by the birch tree
I swear we dress him in more than Michigan and Chiefs clothes. He just wears them on weekends a lot and that’s when we tend to take the most pictures.
Showing support for our new hometown team.
For Aaron’s birthday he specifically told me not to waste my time on a special cake for him but I was bound and determined to remake the light saber cake that started make adventures in cake decorating. So this was a very, very fast attempt but it still beats the light saber of a few years ago. (About the candles, all I could find in the house was a 2 so we improvised.)
This was the original. Trust me it looked really bad up close.
