I still wish we had a hat - I've asked for an Indiana Jones hat at Christmas for years and I still haven't gotten one. Well, Micah got his cake just the way he wanted it - boulder and all. It was an ingenious spectacle of construction with cake, icing, and a number of toothpicks and skewers to keep the ball from squishing the temple and rolling over Dr. Jones. It was a pretty good representation of the scene, if I do say so myself. This is particularly what Micah asked for and he got it. As far as the cake is concerned, "It belongs in a museum!" Now it's buried in some tummies.
By the way, he's never seen the Indy movies, though a bunch of his friends claim to have seen them, and a few of them I believe (one of them said that his parents just started letting him play games rated "Teen" on the computer). I think Micah may have played the LEGO Indiana Jones game at school, though I am unsure. It's amazing how little supervision these kids get at their free time on the computers...
We also went around town finding clues from a treasure hunt (how fitting) that took us a good half-hour. They had to look pretty hard, and each one of them had to read the clues out-loud, something none of them would have been able to do last year at this time. I also came to realize how wonderfully Micah reads compared to many of his classmates. We also played on the trampoline, played soccer, Micah's tennis-tetherball game, and tried out one of his cool new toys. Lunch was calzones AKA "Pizza in Disguise" and veggies with dip. The kids each got to eat a piece of the cake's boulder - and then at least one more piece with vines and rocks and dirt attached. I thought it was a good thing we had made the big rock out of cake instead of using a fake one like most of the examples we had seen.
Micah really enjoyed himself. I'm glad. I got pretty tired out in the sun when we were playing 6 against 1 in soccer! At least the weather cooperated with us today. The two days leading up to this one were miserable and wet. I don't ever remember having a birthday that ran from 10 AM to 1:30 PM either, but it worked out pretty good. I was happy that we could kick all the kids out at the end and spend the rest of the day doing what we needed to do instead of preparing for the whole day and cleaning up in exhaustion after the chaos subsided.
6 comments:
Faith - again I am in awe of your amazing birthday cake! I don't think I can show this one to Jaxson because then he'll want one like that which I'm pretty sure would be impossible for me! Seriously, you could make this a business for yourself - people pay lots of money for store bought cakes and yours taste way better!
Happy Birthday Micah! I can't believe you're 7 already! Hope you have a great summer! I wish our yard was big enough for a trampoline - what a great way to burn off that energy!
Faith, how did you make the gray icing?? If I am going to make a sky scrapper for Noah I need to know how to do gray!!!
Happy Brithday to Micah!!!
The cake is great as usual!!
Joy
That is one amazing cake!!!
I was going to ask if you had met Rob and Jenni, I guess you have :)
Lisa -
I doubt Faith will go into the cake-decorating business anytime soon. She's working on a few quilts as well (one or two of which might get posted sometime around - I don't know - Christmas?). The amount of time it takes to make these cakes makes us wonder whether or not we should have bought one. We had to bake about three cake's worth of materials to build this sucker. And it was dangerous trying to eat it with all those toothpicks holding it together. We watch the Food Network on the rare occasion that we frequent a hotel and watch in amazement as the professionals build their 4' tall cakes. Insane. Tell everyone hi, BTW.
Joy -
Skyscraper. Sounds interesting. The icing is just whipping cream and vanilla pudding with a bit of black food paste / coloring added. It's the stuff we used for Judah's Cars'(TM) tires, only in moderation. It'll make your teeth darker than a pirate if you use too much. I'm imagining that now - he he he!
Beth -
We barely know Rob and Jenni. Our kids play together a fair amount though since we are just three doors down from them. I guess seeing Luke in the pictures tipped you off. Hope you're doing well...
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