Race on Over to Celebrate James 3rd Birthday

James is turning 3 years old...in 2 more days. Who says you can't celebrate early? His birthday lands on Thanksgiving this year and we will be travelling so we decided to have a little party the weekend before. James is such a fun kid with a huge personality. He is always trying to get everyone to laugh and is hardly ever serious. He loves to wrestle with Luke, follow his sister around, and play with any truck, car, airplane, motorcycle, etc. that you put in his hand. He was potty trained 3 months ago (day & night) and can dress himself--what more could a mother ask for! 

 James LOVES the movie cars and has been asking for a lightning McQueen cake for a month now. He also told me it had to be chocolate. I never knew he was so particular. Of course, I had to attempt to give him what he wanted and I thought it turned out pretty good.

For the party, we invited a few of his friends and their families over for pizza. We had the kids make a car and had a race. It was hilarious. Everyone had fun though, especially James and that was what mattered. Love that kid!

Lastly, for James' Birthday we bought him a remote controlled lightning McQueen car which he was thrilled about. However, we put the batteries in and it went about 3 feet and started smoking. Are you kidding? I was able to take it back to the store, but of course no McQueen cars. They had Francesco though and James was thrilled. Luckily, it works great and the kid doesn't want to put it down.