Birthday cakes

[dadof4]

Well, we have a lot of kid's birthdays happening around here. I thought we could share some pics of the cakes we have done for our kids.



Top left - Esther's second birthday - watermelon

Top right - Esther's first birthday - baby quilt

Middle left - Nathaniel's third birthday - barn

Middle right - Nathaniel's fourth birthday - boat (he colored a picture of the boat and Elizabeth decorated the boat the same way)

Bottom left - Nathaniel's fifth birthday - army camouflage

[Psalms18_28]

They look great!

[Anon]

Hey your wife decorates cakes! Great job! :thumb I love 'em.

[Bakershalfdozen]

Nicely done! I enjoy decorating cakes for my kids too.

[Kayla]

I like the army cake the best, you all did a nice job with the camo

[Flourgirl]

Those all look great! I like the barn cake the best!!! But, they all are great! :smile

[HappyChristian]

Those cakes are great! I did cakes for my son when he was younger, and by far the favorite one of all of us was the accident. He was in a dinosaur stage, and wanted little candy dinosaurs all over the cake. I made chocolate, with chocolate icing to simulate mud, right? Well, when I took the cake out of the oven, a big chink of it stuck in the pan. Josh was very upset and figured there wouldn't be any cake for his party in a few hours. But he didn't figure on a desperate mommy! :lol I looked at that mess and thought "Flood!" So, I began to ice the cake as it was, mixing in some of the cake with the icing, and sticking the dinosaurs all over - some inside the "mud" and some partly sticking out, etc. We called it the flood cake. It was a big hit with the kids ("Wow! I never saw a flood cake!" :cool ), and Josh was thrilled that he had a cake on his 3rd birthday. Never made one like it since, but maybe if I have a little grandbaby some day.... :smile Unfortuantely, we didn't get a picture.

[Anon]

LuAnne that's great! My mom always taught us to try to make something out of a "mistake" but I think that's tops.

Cool!

[dadof4]

Well, we just had Nathaniel's 6th birthday party this week. It was a monster truck party with a monster truck cake.

[matie-k]

Looks yummy! I can't believe he's 6! Are you all home schooling or does he go to FBCS?

[dadof4]

We are homeschooling him. He just finished 1st grade (by age, he should be in K-5). We are not pushing him to get ahead, he is doing it on his own. You should see the books he reads! Sugar Creek Gang, biographies of famous people - Harriet Tubman, Albert Einstein (sp) - and others like this. He wants to learn, and is enjoying it.

He is even learning sign language and Brazilian Portuguese - so he can talk to Samuel Gilley.

[matie-k]

That's so good that he has such a hunger to learn. :thumb

[Will]

Personally, I'm kind of a simple fella. Bake me a chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting and I'm happy.

[dadof4]

Personally' date=' I'm kind of a simple fella. Bake me a chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting and I'm happy.[/quote']

That sounds good, but it is not fair to my family. :Bleh Nathaniel has peanut allergies, and I am now reacting the same way my son does if he has peanuts. My wife used to LOVE peanut butter, but we no longer get it due to the allergies.

[Bakershalfdozen]

My son's b/d was this past Tuesday and he wanted an ice cream cake this year so I made him this one: