2 Birthdays

If I ever had cause to worry that Ethan would feel bad about a birthday so close to Christmas, his choice of birthday cakes would calm that worry. He ALWAYS wants something Christmas related. Normally I force suggest he make a different choice, but sometimes I give in. Since he is having a friend party in January with a cake, I didn't mind making him the Santa cake he wanted. I did try to talk him out of the lemon frosting (clashed with the red), but he persisted. I was pretty happy with the results. Unlike my regular cake decorating (described by my sister in this post), I hand drew this one.
Getting his gifts (he asked several times for those Perplexors- the level C was too easy, he wanted level D and Expert). If you look closely at his gifts you'll notice I'm still in love with Mindware. Almost as much as Amazon and Google.
Blowing out the candles. We picked up my parents on Ethan's actual birthday. Why we thought picking someone up in a NYC airport on the day before Christmas Eve was going to be easy, I don't know. It took WAY too long and the presents were opened late that night. The cake had to wait till the next day (because I hadn't decorated it yet- I underestimated the driving time for my parents by hours). I just noticed that he is wearing the same shirt two days in a row and the second day it is a LITTLE dirty. Oops!


My sister has a birthday 2 days after Christmas. This happened to be Ethan's baptism day and she happened to be at our house (a mere 12 hours away) so we had cake. Actually we had cheese cake.

This is her husband lighting the candles and everyone digging in.