Birthday Fun: Cake

At the end of the day, we ate cake and ice cream right before bed...

"Look mom, fire."

I did not have any birthday candles, I forgot them, so he got to blow out a smelly decorative candle...
Mmmmm...



Diaper changes before bed
(Random side note: It is kinda hard to tell in this picture, but I have observed in the past week or so that Kindle looks just like William Shatner when she screams...)

"Mom, take a picture while I pose like I am calm."

(To quote Wes, check him out-he is intensely calm...)

Night Night 2 year old!

Armour Cake?!

So, my kids' birthday's are all about the cool cake that mom (that's me) makes (or attempts to make). To see the cakes I have made in the past, check out this post. So, this year Armour has been saying he wants a "joj" (Curious George) party. I went on pbsparent.org and found this perfect cake recipe that I plan to use (mostly-I would adjust a few things...): I showed this cake picture to Armour and he looked at it, looked at me (looking very confused I might add), looked at the cake, looked at me, looked at the cake, looked at me...this continued for a while...then he finally said, "Dat not Armour Cake! Dat Joj!" And I said, "Yes, Armour, that is a George cake like you wanted for your birthday." He said "No, not Joj birday, Armour, birday!" And I said, "Yes it is Armour's birthday, but you said you wanted a George cake, so I thought you might like this one." "No no mommy!! My cake look like Armour! I want Armour cake and Joj and man yeyyo hat come to pardy" I said, "What?!" And Solace and Ender proceeded to explain over each other that Armour wants a cake that looks like him and that he wanted to invite Curious George and the Man with the Yellow hat to the party. I ask Armour, "Hey Army, do you want a George cake like this," (I again show him the George cake pictured above, and at this point I am really trying to sell it!) "Or, do you want a cake that looks like Armour?" He very emphatically states that he wants to get a cake that looks like him. I start to show him different cakes he might like (that are easy and already designed) on PBS parents and on Nick Jr and on Playhouse Disney. He refuses them all. We look at a slide show of all the pictures on our computer. Following are the 4 pictures he kept picking out as what he wanted his cake to look like:

So, yeah...he appears to be a bit self-obsessed at the moment and he knows what he wants, and it appears to be an Armour cake...hmmmmm...we'll see about this...

Cakes of the past

S's first birthday-Elmo S's 2nd Birthday-Dora
E's 1st Birthday-Bathtub fun
S's 3rd birthday-Princess Party E's 2nd Birthday-ShrekS's 4th Birthday-Halloween/Witch

E's 3rd Birthday-Dinosaur Volcano Island themeA's 1st birthday-Mickey Mouse-2 cakes cause he and a friend share a birthday and shared a party. But of course each kid needed their own cake to dig in to.
What would a cake blog be without including the cake I made for my dad's 50th birthday?!

My cakes aren't perfect, but they are unique and specially made for each theme and birthday. So, now do you see why Solace's cake this year feels like a major cop out?!