birthdays and baby girls.
Wednesday marked two special occasions—one of my babies turned two weeks old and another one turned three years old:
Ah, homemade birthday cake! There’s nothing like it. Isn’t this just a work of art?!
Joshua would have liked to have a “Monkey George” cake (thanks to an issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine where he saw a Curious George cake that a talented mom made for her son) but obviously, as you can see, we just don’t have those sorts of talents… ha! Nor could we find a shop that still carried Curious George cakes or decorations! So, we did the next best thing. We made him an official Cake Wrecks cake! Only a truly geeky family would go to such lengths… (hee hee!)
At least it was delicious. Confetti cake with Lemon icing. Yum! The birthday boy approved:
Here’s a cute family photo that we took the day after Penny was born:
Ignore Joshua… he was whining to Grandmom about his water cup for some reason. Everyone else in the photo looks happy, though. LOL! I can’t believe there are so many of us now…
So, Penny sleeps a lot. Can you tell? So far every picture of her on the web has been like this:
Here is a rare snapshot of her when she was awake:
Precious little snook-ems. The kids love her! They kind wish she’d be awake more, too:
(Actually, I think she was awake in this picture. The look on Katie’s face though was too much. I could resist a good joke.)
And last but not least… and anonymous present came for Penny:
Aren’t these adorable?! But the one bad thing about Etsy—the shop owners don’t always think to provide a note to say who the gift is from! So, anyone want to claim these? LOL! They are super-sweet. I just love them!
Now… to work on writing up that birth story!
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:37 pm
The family picture is so sweet! Love all the pictures! Your kids are adorable! 🙂
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:09 pm
LOL! Love the cake! Happy birthday, Joshua! You did cake wrecks proud;) Thanks for the idea as we have some birthdays coming up, too!
Love the family shot. You should definitely scrap it!
Penny is gorgeous. Sooooo beautiful!!
July 4th, 2009 at 3:01 am
Adorable photos! You birthday boy looks very pleased. That family photos is precious too! Fab job on the cake wreck!
July 4th, 2009 at 9:26 am
WOW Penny looks just like Katie when she is awake. Happy birthday to Joshua! And I am claining the baby Mary Jane’s! Well they are from Nett as well 😀
Oh and I love the family shot. You look gorgeous but tired.
July 4th, 2009 at 10:22 am
What a sweet family you have! Congratulations on the birthday and the baby. 😀
July 5th, 2009 at 1:57 am
Gorgeous photos, and love those shoes. Congratulations.
July 5th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
What a gorgeous family!
July 6th, 2009 at 12:36 am
Gosh you crack me up with your cake comments! That’s why I don’t bake as mine would fill the Cake Wrecks site LOL! I don’t think kids really care what a cake looks like once they start hoeing into it anyways.
And your family pic is so adorable and Joshua’s face is a classic! You all look so proud of your new little Penny too 🙂
July 6th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Penny’s just adorable! And so are all those pix!! Congrats again on this gorgeous baby girl
July 6th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Cute little shoes!! Penny is just so dang sweet!!! Katie looks like she’s thinking “sigh… will she ever wake up so I can hold her?” LOL
July 6th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Aww, she is just so precious and those shoes are too cute!
October 1st, 2009 at 11:05 am
I’m trying to find the Creating Keepsakes issue with the Curious George cake you mentioned. Do you know what year and month it was? Thanks!
September 26th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Your little family is so precious! I would love to meet the kids sometime. Let me know if you’re ever coming by here in the near future. Hope to see you soon. I hate we all got away from each other but I am so proud and excited that you and Tara have had such great things happening. I prey they continue. I’m always here if you need me!