Brody turns 1 (with a whole lotta' pictures)

 I'm definitely not a cake decorator, but I spent a lot of time on Chase's first cake so I wanted to do the same for Brody.  I found the idea for a candyland cake in Parents magazine and decided to make my own.

 Complete with Lollipop land

Ice cream cones

Gingerbread men and the candy path the follow.


I really didn't think it would take all that much to make this cake, but it ended up taking me all day.  And when all was finished I set the cake out of the way to wait for Daniel to get home.  Turns out the ice cream cones were too heavy for the cake to hold up that long and a couple hours of sitting on the table I noticed this:


 A hole in the cake that took me ALL DAY to make :(  I decided to just shove the ice cream cone back in the cake more towards the middle and a couple hours later....

a BIGGER hole in my cake :(


Oh well, I just turned that around to the back.  See can't even tell there is a complete disaster in the back.

The birthday boy checking out the cake

 The many expressive faces that came from the next twenty minutes.

 This was the only handful that made it in his mouth and it came right back out.  He thought it was lots of fun to pound and smoosh with his hands, but not good for eating!


A birthday kiss from Chase

My boys

A quick family shot with the remote (seriously the greatest invention for the camera!)

And here's my big boy.

I took him to the doctor today and he weights 23.5 lbs.  He is catching up to Chase pretty fast.  Despite the chunky legs and cheeks this kid is only 50% for weight and a bit higher for height.