birthdays!

We had a couple of birthdays this last month. Somewhere I got the idea that I was going to make shaped cakes for them. Well, actually, a friend on Facebook did the airplane cake for her son...and it looked so easy (and fun) that I figured I should do it too. Besides, I have a son that loves airplanes. So an airplane cake it was for Avery's birthday:

Airplane. Complete with engines, cockpit window, passenger
windows and the all-important "2" on top.

The blue icing was important because it was the only colour Avery could say. That I put it together at 10 pm, not so important but definitely not the best time for me to be trying to perfect a feat. Happily, it was recognizable as an airplane so it was all good.

Avery wasn't too sure what to make of the cake.

 

 

And he wasn't too sure what to do about the candles.

 

But he sure did master the word "cake" awfully fast. I think maybe "more" was another word that was mastered around that time as well...

After watching his little brother have a birthday and being well aware of what it was all about, it was Lane's turn.

This time we didn't have someone else's birthday cake to copy, so we figured it out ourselves! An excavator, we decided, would be fun and so it was.

It took a bit of a beating after sitting overnight but it was still recognizable. There was great entertainment to be had while we made this one - we put it together at my parents' place and all the aunts and uncles had fun watching the process. Note to self: be careful around red food colouring. Two drops is one too many and will take half a bottle of yellow to recover. The things you learn!

 

 

Lane was pretty pleased with his cake - his dad was not so pleased with the final colour and everyone wondered if the birthday boy would make a comment about it - but it turned out that the important part was that the actual cake was blue.

This cake was a winner all around - blue cake, lots of icing and Oreo cookies! Once again my boys were pretty happy to eat another cake.

 

All this means we now have a four year old, a two year old and an almost four month old in the house. Crazy!