We'd planned to have Geekling's 3rd birthday in a park nearby but the weather has been abysmal here in Brisbane. It's been raining so long we're considering building an ark! So we had the party at home. After the party I remembered why I love birthdays in a park - 10 kids in a small house is soooo noisy!
The birthday boy requested a Thomas party as the blue tank engine is his favourite thing in the world right about now. I grabbed a few cheap Thomas decorations and balloons from a nearby party shop and a nice blue tablecloth from Lifeline thrift shop. My dear mother in law brought a fabulous fruit platter, we set out some chips and dips, vegie sticks, fairy bread and lollies, cheerio frankfurts and sausages in bread.
And of course the cake. We'd decided on a cake in the shape of a 3, with train tracks and little train on it. I made a 3 out of two round cakes (ALDI 75c vanilla cake mix is my go to cake 'recipe'), iced it in green icing followed by green tinted coconut. Now what to use for the tracks? I considered liqorice rope, but couldn't find any in any shop nearby. I decided to pipe chocolate but burned both batches while I tried in vain to multi-task. I finally did a last minute dash to the supermarket for black writing icing and it saved the day. I used a train from Geekling's wooden train set and that was that.
Happy birthday, beautiful boy xxoo
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