Kyler's birthday today. We only invited 2 friends, since he's 2! That's a great rule. One family got sick, so we just went with the other family, the Natsuharas, to Auburn Family Fun center. It has a back room that has ball pits, slides, and tubes to play in. It's supposed to be just for little kids under 10, but usually there are only kids under 5 or so. We had the place to ourselves for quite a while, and then some older kids came in for a party. They were throwing balls and being quite rough. So we decided to have our cake then. As our kids were finishing up the cake, the older kids went into a room to have pizza and their cake. So we got another 20 minutes of play again. It worked out perfect. Nori is a little younger than Ilea, and Koji is almost the same age. By this time they were getting pretty tired anyway, so we called it quits when the big kids came back. All in all, it was a fun party. Kyler had a train cake. I had frosted it the day before, and Ilea wanted to help me decorate it. So I had frosted all of the cars a different color, and pushed it to the back of the counter. I was sitting at the computer while Kyler was awake, waiting for Ilea to come home, and Kyler comes over with a hand full of different color frosting and says "CAKE!!!" He had pushed a chair over, and run his finger down every one of the cars, getting different frosting on his hand each time! What a mess! But, since it was his cake, no big deal. I tried to smooth it out, and we put candy over the bad spots.