Thursday, May 22, 2008

Celebrating Makayla's Birthday

I really struggled with the decision to throw Makayla a birthday party or not. I read all of the advice given. Twice. Okay, it was more like four times. Believe me, I agonized over what to do.

About 2 weeks ago, I went with Makayla to a birthday party for one of her friends. I came away from the party with a sure answer to my internal turmoil: NO PARTY! Makayla did not do well with all the chaos; and quite frankly, neither did I.

Instead, Kasey and I decided that we would take Makayla to the zoo for the day. She loved it!! We all had so much fun, and I left with my sanity intact--something I don't think would have happened with a party populated by 4-year-olds.

I thought that since we had celebrated Makayla's birthday at the zoo, she wouldn't really care about having a cake. Wrong! She woke up this morning and said, "Mom, can I have a cake for my birthday?"

*Sigh*

Okay.

While Makayla was at school, I thought up what kind of cool cake I could make. I had to out-do her cake from last year. I thought it might be fun to make a Cinderella carriage cake since Makayla loves Cinderella so much. This is how it turned out.

not too shabby

Cinderella peeking out the window

Makayla with the cake. She wouldn't look at me, just her cool cake.

singing "Happy Birthday" to herself.


She was loving all the attention.
Blowing out the candles

Hooray!
When I was cutting up the cake, Makayla said to me, "Thanks for making my birthday, Mom."

13 comments:

Unknown said...

AWWWWW HOW SWEET!

The cake is SO adorable! Once again you DID IT!

Oh I remember holding her in the hospital *sigh*

Happy Birthday!

Charity Smith said...

That cake is so cute look how creative you are!!

Anonymous said...

I like it- It is cute:)

Jayson & Carrie said...

Wow, good job on the cake Laura! What did you make the wheels out of? And did you use the pampered chef mixing bowl for the cake shape? It turned out well! :)

Laura said...

The wheels are a sucker recipe that I have. Instead of pouring it into sucker molds, I swirled it on a pan to get the vine effect like on the movie.

I wish I had that Pampered chef mixing bowl. I used 2 other oven-proof bowls that I have. Then I trimmed the tops off both cakes and put them together to form the sphere.

Not too difficult. Just time consuming

ann said...

you did it again!!! Great job the boys are going to wish we were still their Ha!

Paige said...

Totally cute cake! You are such a fun mom.

Veronica said...

I can't believe she is 4 now holy cow! You did a wonderful job on the cake and she look like she quite enjoyed it.

Jill said...

Awesome Cake!!! Where did you get the Cinderella? You are a great mom and not just because you make cool cakes!!! :)

Laura said...

We have sooo many Cinderella books on the shelf. I chose a Cinderella that was the right size, made a color copy, and stuck it to the frosting.

I can't take too much credit for that idea. I saw it on another cake.

Amanda said...

You are way more creative than I am, I think where can I buy a cool cake pan?

Tam Tam said...

that is a pretty cool cake!

Kami said...

Wow!! You are creative, I wouldn't even know how to start! This cake is so cute, I love the wheels!!