Nick's Birthday

As if there was any question that I did indeed do Nick's cake this year, I have proof that I was caught blue-handed. :)

I was so excited this year. I always do the kids' cakes but this year I was working in a bakery. And I was given free reign to use all the cool tools to make Nick's birthday cake. I was counting down the days. Put in the order 3 weeks ago with "I WANT TO DO THIS CAKE" in big letters. I started by asking Nick what he wanted. First he told me a Thomas cake. Well, I've done that before with Nate's cake. Not only that but Nick had a cake last year in Wisconsin with the same kit that we carry. So I told him to think of something else, to think "outside the box". What else did he want on his cake besides Thomas. He thought about it for a minute then turned to me and said, "Candles." Finally I got an answer I could use. "A pig". We had one kit with a pig that was pretty cute. It just happened to be Little People which Nick loves. So a week ago I was telling him about his cake. I told him it had a rainbow. "I don't like rainbows." Then I told him there would be grass. "No, Mommy. Pigs don't go in grass. Pigs have to go in the mud." So I went to work on Saturday knowing I was going to have to make some adjustments to the cake. All in all it turned out pretty good. I regret not taking a picture before I put it in the box and brought it home. The box nicked it on the sides and the back and Kyra got her fingers in it before I got a picture. :( But here it is...

I got home to a very excited Nick who was so excited that when his daddy called to wish him a happy birthday, Nick answered with "Happy Birthday". I asked him how old he was and he told me 4. But we had some trouble holding up only 4 fingers. So he just took the other hand and tried to hold down one finger.

This wonderful child of mine wanted spaghetti for his birthday dinner. :) I made the comment that he was definitely my child and my mom said, "I wasn't going to say it." I can't even remember how many spaghetti birthday dinners she had to make for me. After dinner we did cake. Everybody sang. Even Kyra. "Happy Dirfday to Nick" Then Nick proceeded to blow out one candle at a time. When he was done he immediately started pulling out the candles to lick off the frosting. Then he dug in.

Next we started with presents. He loved the dinosaur and clothes from Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Miille.

Then he opened his present from Grandma and you can see how much he loved his new Henry.

He also got a new Thomas movie, a soccer ball, and a frog. He wanted a Webkinz like Nate so today we went online and registered Oscar and set up his room. He had fun. Overall the birthday was so good that he's already planning his fifth. :-P

Promised picture

I have been asked pretty much every time I get excited about having completed another cake if I took a picture. Well I just so happened to have a camera with me one of the last times I made one. This was my first kit cake. In other words a cake made with a character kit so I actually had a picture I was trying to make the cake look like. The cake went in our case and someone bought it the very next day. :-P I was very happy. They must all think I'm such a dork. But here it is...

Train trip

Its a yearly tradition at the boys' school for the 4 year old preschool class to take a field trip on a train. A group of parents drive the kids, some extra adults to go on the train, and the teacher down to Sedalia and drop them off. That same group of parents then drive from Sedalia to Warrensburg in an attempt to beat the Amtrak in order to pick up the group that rode on the train. The trip this year happened to fall on my day off so I volunteered to be one of the drivers. It was fun. :) The boys' teacher rode with me so I got to have a very long interesting talk with her about all sorts of fun stuff. Then I led the caravan of vans from Sedaila to Warrensburg where we did indeed beat the train. And were there to see the kids arrive. I regret to say that I didn't get a picture of the whole class. I wanted to but just didn't seem to catch them at the right time. Nate had a blast and Nick can't wait for his turn next year.

The clueless looking one would be mine. ;)