Planes, Trains and Automobiles

At 2 Big Boy loves anything with an engine! His very favorites are Cars and Thomas. For his cake I used a train shaped pan and then decorate it like Edward, the #2 train from Thomas. I used a plastic google eye and crushed oreos for the coal. We had Thomas party hats and Cars tableware. For the other cakes (we had a lot of guests) I made a sky blue one with a plane on it and a green one with crushed vanilla wafers as a road for a car. We sent out plane ticket invitations. Big Boy's Birthday Airlines: passenger name was the invitee, for the flight number we used Big Boy's initials plus his birthdate (MMDDYY), Destination was the party address and check-in was our phone and email address to RSVP. We had all his favorite food: animal crackers, goldfish, m&ms, peanut butter and nutella sandwiches, individual mac and cheese in Cars cupcake holders. We kept the decorations pretty simple. A Cars birthday banner, 12 pictures of the birthday boy (one from each month of the last year) and Daddy made a few different paper airplanes we hung from the ceiling. For our goody bags we made "Motion Sickness Bags" with our Big Boy's birthday airlines logo on it. The bigger kids thought those were so funny! I was 8 months pregnant at this party so most of the creative aspects were done on the computer (invitations, goody bags). Sleeping was still taking priority over most everything else!