Choo Choo!

While on vacation a few weeks ago, we celebrated Dan-El's second birthday.


It was a rockin' time. Even the bears came into celebrate.


We made a Thomas the Tank Engine cake in honor of the occasion. This was an idea that I cribbed from the PBS Sprout Web site. A day after I decided we'd make this, the husband jokingly said "Oh, I saw this Thomas cake on one of the Sprout shows Dan-El was watching. It had close to a dozen train cars. You should make it. Ha-ha." I know about that, and we are making it, I said. It was at this moment he again remembered that he married a crazy person.


The whole shebang took about 3 hours to make, and the combined efforts of myself, the husband, Ma Lane and Jak-El. At one point, as the cake started to look a bit goofy, I decided that if anyone asked, we'd say it had been purchased from the Short Bus Kids Bakery.


Note the level of detail. My programmer/engineer husband constructed one of the many windmills from the island of Sodor, where Thomas lives.


And, there's a duck pond! There were two other ducks, but I ate them they swam away.


Thomas has a melty eye because (a) we inadvertently put the cake under a spotlight in the kitchen or (b) it's a ZOMBIE Thomas the Tank Engine, in honor of the then upcoming Halloween.


Still, Danny was pretty impressed.


Happy Birthday, Dan-El!