A Kitchen and a School Bus Cake

So, first off, my flowers.....they kicked the bucket 2 weeks ago (shortly after this post) when the temperature plummeted quickly. They went from glorious to gross in about 6 hours. Oh well, they made it way longer than I'd ever thought.


In more important news, my little man is turning 2 years old later this week. Our gift to him is his own little kitchen and a bunch of play food. We gave it to him over the weekend and he LOVES IT!!! You know it's a sign of the times when a little kid kitchen comes with "stainless steel" appliances and a cell phone with a designated holder on the counter top.

Walter and X assembled the kitchen. I got to put on the sticker decals!



Isn't this cute! X was putting a turkey in the microwave.


And as if there are not enough little things floating around this house we've now added 101 pieces of play food to keep track of. Oh yeah! So far X's favorites are the "bagels" and the "celery".

We're not doing a b-day party, but we did have our parents over for dinner and cake this weekend. Since X is really into school buses lately, I got the bright idea to make him a school bus cake for his birthday. I found some examples online. It took me awhile (and a trip back to the grocery store for more frosting and food coloring!) but I'm really pleased with how it turned out. X seemed to enjoy it, but I'm sure he would have taken anything since he doesn't even understand what a birthday is!

I started off with 3 13x9 cakes.


Then I stacked them and cut them to the shapes I needed. (Disregard my swollen pregnant self...there are no good camera angles these days!)


Then 2 layers of icing. One thinned out "pour over" layer to smooth the cuts, and one traditional icing layer. It kinda looked like a big hunk of cheese at this point.
But once it was decorated it came pretty close to looking like a school bus! Complete with mini chocolate donuts for the wheels and gumdrops for the lights.





After cake we tried to get a few pictures but X wasn't really having it (unless he was held down and tickled like in this one)



Birthday post with milestones to come later this week! Happy early Birthday little man!!!