Growing, Growing!

We sadly lost a lot of the pictures from the hospital and when Jaiden was brand new when we were doing some transferring of files.  But I do have a few.  These are mostly from his first few weeks…

Now, he’s six!  His birthday was on Friday and he was really excited to be six.  Last year, he wanted a Star Wars cake, and the one I did was not really a Star Wars cake, so he has been asking for a “Real” one this year.  He said he just wanted everything that had to do with Star Wars on it, but I (of course) didn’t really start looking at ideas in time to go out and get everything I might need.  So, the night before, we decided to to an R2-D2 cake.  Carlos had the day off, so he was able to help me with some of it and help hold down the fort while I worked on it.  We wanted to use fondant, but the Wilton stuff tastes horrible and the local cake store only had orange.  I haven’t made marshmallow fondant before and didn’t want to try for the first time that day.  So, it’s just with buttercream icing, but I think it still worked okay.  I finally finished just before we had his cake and ice cream, so it was really sad to cut into it!

 

Afterwards, I asked him if he liked it. He said yes, but asked why I didn’t just put lots of Star Wars things on it! Oh well!

More cousin photos!

We tried to get a family picture.  This was the 9th try and about the best one!

This was the inside of the cake.  I used three colors of cake batter and the swirled in a cool way while baking!

He got some clothes which he badly needed because he’s the oldest and has outgrown everything!  He also got a fun McQueen car, a wallet, some Play-Doh and a Star Wars Lego set.  I think it was a fun day for him!  We love you Jaiden!

Once again, I’m having a hard time with the video, surprise, surprise!  I’ll get it up when I can get it fixed!