Boo Boo's Birthday

Boo (and for those of you who aren't in the know, that isn't my "anonymous blog nickname" for him....it's his official, since babyhood nickname!) reached his landmark 4th birthday on Saturday! Woo-hoo!


All of the party supplies are still sitting in my closet, buy we did do some fun things to make it a special day.

Since his birthday miraculously landed on the second Saturday of the month, it was train day at the park! The stars aligned!

This is me guiding kids towards a bustling mini train station. The kids were in charge of the camera, so that is the absolute best picture of our train adventure. I think the rest of the pictures they took were of trees.


The train tracks are all laid out through a shady, ferny northwest forest. We all love to ride past the train yard, where all of the hobbyist are working on their trains. If you're lucky, one of the beautiful little steam engines will make a loud whoosh and send a cloud of white steam into the air. Heaven for toddlers - especially Thomas the Tank Engine fans.

Then we drove over to Grandma and Grandpa's house. We decided to go there and celebrate all of the May birthdays at once. It was a lovely ferry ride (going the cheap direction...you don't have to pay for passengers toward Seattle!)

Boo found two eggs as soon as we opened the car door. That there is birthday luck.


We broke out the new scooter.


....and Grandma gave Boo the ride of his life on her "tractor".


Happy birthday, my sweet little hooligan!