Party Time!!

Couple of months ago, I asked Mariah to find out what kind of cake Gabriel wanted for his birthday. . . . Soldier cake.  Hmmm, does that mean a cake that looks like a soldier, or a cake that is a battle ground, or just what?

Ends up it is  a cake with a hill with grass, pond and of course the blue sky.  Not a flat cake with all of this depicted on it, a blue sky above it, that's realistic (Who the heqq taught him that anyway, I would like to have a talk with them).  When I checked on it a couple of days ago, he very nicely and patiently described it to me, again.  He forgets how often that little mind of his changes, sometimes.  I told him it would be doable except for that sky and he took that pretty well.

 Of course he took it so well and maturely that it got my pea brain going . . . . Hmmm, can you tell this has become a challenge for me?  Now that I have my creative juices turn back on again, well some of the time, it has been fun to pull off what the kiddies want.  If Jon is home, he seems to enjoy helping me come up with ideas . . . especially when it will pull the big kids' chains . . . AKA . . .  their legs.  Watching Mariah trying to cut the construction cake with dinosaurs buried all over it put a big ole smile on his face!  I have thought of a way to make a sky with clouds even . . . how to have stuff flying, that would be way fun, dontcha think? it?

Here are some ideas I found on the internet:

1.  Cute but don't want to buy or store shape pans.  2.  Cute but too predictable  3.  Little dudes too big and not enough.

Then there are these:

1.  Nothing to play with afterwards, HELLO!  2.  Kind of cramped.   3.  Wouldn't he just die if I did this?  Poor kid would probably try to act happy, but definitely not what he has in mind and he is too little to pick on.  I'll wait until he deserves it.

So what do you think?   I know, just make sure it's edible . ..  I have that down now, I think.  I must like the beating motion, I over beat cakes, so I set timers now, it's a big ole help.

What surprise can we come up with this time?  Dead bodies or skeletons buried between the layers?  Hmmmm  . ..    Maybe I'll stick to flying stuff, if I can find some that it small and light enough!