My Baby Turned Two

Saturday my baby girl turned two! Didn't we just celebrate her first birthday? Time has gone by so fast it's unbelievable. She is such a sweet girl. She always gives lots of love and kisses. She is definitely her own person. Katie always keeps us busy. She has loved books forever, especially Five Little Monkeys. I love making my kids birthday cakes. Fourteen birthdays and only one store bought cake (Spider Man ice cream cake for Eric's fourth b-day). I always ask my kids what kind of cake they want and then try to make it. My cakes are far from professional looking but I kind of like it that way. Eric and Charles can remember almost all of their cakes. I've done some pretty cool Star Wars cakes and and a really cute blue dinosaur. Back to Five Little Monkeys. Katie loves this book so I decided to make her a Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed cake. The cake turned out differently than I had envisioned, but it was still cute. The pillows threw me off. I tried different things and ended up with Twinkies for pillows. They weren't my favorite but they worked the best. I couldn't find little toy monkeys to put on the cake so I bought a Barrel of Monkeys and dipped them in chocolate put a toothpick on the back and stuck them in like they were jumping. I decorated her cake Friday for the party on Saturday. When I was finished I put it up on the counter and while I wasn't looking she pulled a chair over, climbed up and put her fingers in it. Luckily she only got into the frosting and not the cake. Saturday we had a barbecue with the family for her birthday. Thank you to everyone for coming and for the adorable presents.