Adam's Birthday

Apparently I'm doing things backwards today. Alex's birthday actually came first, but I figured out what pictures I want to use for Adam's first so here you go...

Adam turned 4 this year. It's still hard to believe sometimes that my BABY is 4. On the other hand it's fun to see him grow up. I really love watching him learn new things. He's been a counting fiend lately and can almost make it to 20, though sometimes 14 gets left out... He starts preschool in the fall. He's excited now, but he's still shy so here's hoping he'll like it.

Adam had been telling me for MONTHS that he wanted monkey cupcakes for his birthday just like last year. I had all the ingredients to decorate them. Unfortunately, about a week before his birthday he decided he did not want monkey cupcakes so after searching through some cake ideas he decided on a panda cake. As you can see, my work would NEVER be featured in a Betty Crocker cookbook and no bakery in their right mind would hire me. Alas, my 4-year-old LOVED it so life was good. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who notices that the panda has an abnormally large head. Not sure how that happened since I made two 9 inch round cakes. Oh well. Maybe real pandas do have very large heads??

He does have cute eyes though.

Cute pic of Adam with his itchy allergy eyes. He always starts pulling on his eyelids when they itch. Spring was not kind to him...

And this is the AFTER pic. Unfortunately, the cake was kind of gross. It sounded so good from the Betty Crocker cake book. It had Hershey syrup in the batter and everything. Never experiment with a new recipe for your kid's birthday...

We really just had a family party and watched The Gruffalo that Adam selected from Redbox. It was very cute. I think we ate chicken nuggets or hotdogs. I can't remember now 2 months later. (Yet another reason to blog as life happens, right?? Don't hold your breath.) He also got some Star Wars action figures and a Star Wars Legos set. He still plays with them, which is a good sign...