Don't drink the bath water!

Aren't I on a roll getting two blog posts in on one day?

My boy has already learned to fake me out. Last night during bath time, he kept picking up one of the bath cups and going in for a drink of bath water. I'd say, "Yuck! Don't drink the bath water!". But, the kid kept doing it! After a few times, I got up to move the cup from his mouth and again tell him that was gross, but ya know what? The cup was empty!!! He continued faking me out by letting the water dribble down his chin occassionaly, likely so as to throw me off guard by putting a cup with water up to his lips.

Brown Eyes not so Brown..

Well, this week E has been battling the dreaded pink eye. Luckily, it hasn't spread to anyone else, but the poor kid looks so sad when he looks up at you with those goobery, pink eyes. We've been using the prescription eye drops since Sunday, but it's slow going clearing up. The problem though may be due to the extremely difficult task of getting stinging drops of medicine into a 2-year old's eyes.. Though bribery is encouraging him to cooperate, it's still a natural reflex to close your eyes when you see something coming at them!

Here's hoping for a bright and clear holiday weekend, with no pink except for the frosting on the cake! (Yes, I may be baking a cake because I just got the COOLEST giant cupcake shaped baking pan and I reaaaally want to try it out!)

Success! Sort of ...

So if you talked to me much at all last week, you would have known how utterly excited I was to begin construction on a Barbie cake for my wonderful daycare lady's little girl's birthday. I was so excited that I dreamt about it for at least two days before and the night before, I had to will myself to go to sleep! Well, the construction was a success! We made it on Friday night and cut it at the party on Saturday afternoon. It looked great and tasted great, stayed standing overnight, and the birthday girl thought it was pretty neat too!

It's triple later, with the top later being a trimmed-up bundt cake. The layers had home-made chocolate frosting, and the outside was vanilla frosting.

After having such a success with this, I thought I'd try making a double layer cake with easy-pour fondant on Sunday. Well, that didn't work out so well.... In fact, I didn't even get to the fondant because I had made such a mess of the cake. But Bill and I cut ourselves a piece and happily ate it anyways. It wasn't pretty, but it was still good.

Next on my list... Red Velvet Cake Balls.

And next on YOUR list if your a baker at all, wander around Bakerella's blog. She's got so many fun ideas! I love it!

Give. me. coffee!!!

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My next big project!

So I'm going to attempt to make a Barbie cake with my wonderful daycare lady for her little girl's 4th birthday this weekend.
Here's the detailed plan:

We're going to use cake mix and 1 or 2 round cake tins and a rounded bundt pan, all layered to make Barbie's skirt. We're then going to use home-made buttercream frosting (powdered sugar, butter, vanilla, milk) for the outside of the cake and then maybe some chocolate buttercream for the layers (by adding cocoa powder).

Here's what the cake will HOPEFULLY turn out like. I'll be sure to post a picture of the actual cake when it's done!

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Open Skies

I don't blog much (obviously), but this seemed blog-worthy to me this morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwM8vgulzdI

This song feels like a breath of fresh air! It's got momentum that could just carry me right through the day. And it got me thinking too about how God is like an open sky. Big, wide and emcompassing, and always present - no matter where you are geographically (or emotionally, spiritually, wherever you are in your life journey). You have to only be able to open your eyes to see it right there with you, always. Although, even if you keep your eyes closed or if it's dark, the sky is still there, whether you acknowledge it or not.