Cake Wreck

Lets just start with, it's going to be Logan's 3rd Birthday in a few days. Not to be all stupid/sappy or anything, but WHERE THE HELL DID THAT TIME GO? How has my precious baby turned into a English speaking, in-dirt-playing, wild, funny, monkey of a little KID? He's not even classified as a Toddler anymore...he's a kid!? It's nuts & its exciting & makes me a little sad at the same time! So there's my mommy whinning. Done.

To the matter at hand, birthday cake. We usually pay someone to do a birthday cake for Logan's birthday. This year I decided that is stupid. I'm not paying the stupid amount of money to do something that I should be capable of doing myself. You see that "should" word in the previous sentence. Well, you know I got to thinking, you can Google anything & I do mean ANYTHING these days (as a friend so hilariously pointed out to me the other night at dinner...I haven't thought something was so funny in a long time....Thanks to you know who you are & NO I'm not gonna blog what you googled!!!) Anyway...tangents are something I'm really good at! :) So, I googled a few tips on how to make a great cake. I'm thinking to my self, how hard can this be...I paint a little...sometimes those turn out alright. So I should be able to do the same with some icing right? Not so much. I gave it a little shot last night. Again...bad. So I will admit that the cake part was so awesome, and the cake does taste really good actually. Its. Just. Ugly. ;)

Have you seen those things on TV that make the Giant Cupcake Cakes? Well every time that commercial comes on TV Logan gets all excited & talks about how much he wants some "birthday" that looks like that! He calls cakes, "birthday"? So I got one for free at the market in Las Vegas, so I thought I would use this for this little Birthday cake.

Here you go. This belongs on the Cake Wrecks website.


However I must admit, my little research on google about how to make a moist cake, did work...This cake is Yummy!!! (even though it is so ugly)



Moral of this story...don't try to make a pretty cake. Not possible. ;)

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I've seriously got to get to work on this blog! Damn School.

1 Step Forward, 2 Steps Back. . .

Forward step. . .
Logan hit a huge milestone in his potty training efforts tonight. We usually don't go out in public without a pullup on, because he IS NOT going to tell you he has to go to the potty. He's been doing pretty good for the past couple of weeks at home of starting to actually tell us he has to go to the restroom. He asked me this evening if we could go to Bass Pro & since he hasn't been feeling well tonight...I just couldn't tell him no. So off we go to Bass Pro. I tried to put him in a pullup before we left, but he refused & insisted that we stay in his "big boy underwear". . . So I thought to myself "what the hell, it's just pee, I'll just take a change of clothes." Then we get all the way over to Bass pro & guess what I forgot. . .YOU GOT IT, A change of clothes! So I decide to give it a whirl anyway. About 45 minutes after we got there he blurts out "MOMMY, I GOTTA POTTY!". . . WHAT? I say to myself! YES YES YES!!! Whoot whoot! He has finally gotten it! He may be potty trained! I all but squealed in the store! I was stoked! We headed off to the bathroom & it all went just like it is supposed to! Woo HOO!!

So obviously I'm excited that my kid may have hit a milestone, we may be well on our way to NO MORE DIAPERS!! Woo Hoo! A step forward in life! I'm so proud of my little man. I decided to reward him with a little toy from bass pro, a toy pop gun, he picked out himself. I know I know...probably a bad choice but what the hell?

Step Backwards. . .
We get home from Bass Pro & continue on with our nightly ritual as usual. Bath, PJ's, ect...you get the point. Well after bath time, we are in his room getting ready to put on PJs & Logan finds this in his drawer. . .

I cannot get this thing away from him without him freaking out? He gave these things up at 9 months old all on his own. He just stopped taking a pacifier, now this? WTH?

Art

Art isn't just what you paint, it's what you snap! :) (and then carefully revise in a photo editing program!!) This one is so going on the wall. It is a picture of Logan & Acey at the zoo back in March. This one I LOVE!


The original post is HERE, but so you don't have to look back...this is the unedited version. It's still supercute...because they are of course...BUT I just can't leave well enough alone. (this should come as a real shocker to those of you who know me! he he he)

No Time to Pee?!

A few minutes ago I attempted to go t o the bathroom...alone. Big mistake.

Logan was sitting on the couch, totally in a trance watching SHREK! I don't even think he was blinking. He had a bowl of Cheerios in his lap. I thought,. . .he's totally hooked up & he won't move while I go to the bathroom...I mean, it's just to pee?

So off I go, only about 15 steps from where he was sitting on the couch. I bet it wasn't 2 seconds later & I hear, "uh-oh, Mommy...come clean it up". I thought, Oh Hell!?!

This is what I came in the room to find. . .







At least he had fun cleaning it up! Gotta love the life of parenting a Toddler!! :)