Cat in the Hat cake

Sweet G and I decided to throw a surprise bday party for Teeny Bopper.  Because of the Seussical play, we decided to do a Seuss themed party.  Naunee made this SPECTACULAR hat cake.  It came out exactly like I had hoped!  Only better!!  :)  She is amazing.

She had Dr. D help her blow out the candles.  As you can tell, he was quite proud to help.  And even the candles were "Seussy". 

It was a fun party.  The best part was when I gave her a special present.  In Seussical, JoJo (the part my Teeny Bopper played) dies.  Yes, I cried.  So, everyone is sad and serious after she gets killed in the war, and the Cat in the Hat comes out.  He is holding this doll that they dressed exactly like JoJo and he is all sad.  But wait, he says, maybe JoJo didn't really die afterall.  How to tell?  A re-enactment!  So he does this little re-enactment of JoJo's last scene and...  JoJo comes out alive afterall!!  Back to the gift part.  I went to TB's school and was able to get the JoJo doll!!  I knew it would mean the world to her, and it sooo did.  I wish we had video taped her opening it, it was the best reaction to a gift since her American Girl doll years ago.

Thanks to Sweet G for all her work in helping plan it, and to TB for being so appreciative.  Love you girls!

cake balls

Sweet G wanted to serve cake balls for her birthday party.  I thought we could use something cute to present them on, so I made a merry little trip to the Dollar Tree.  (there is one right by our new house.  the lady that works there knows me now!  LOL)  Anyway, I've seen these little stands all over the web and have been waiting for a good excuse to make one.
What I bought:  a candlestick, a pack of 2 small candlesticks, and 2 plates.

And a feather duster.  That's not part of the necessary materials, but Dr. D found it and we couldn't leave it there.  Look at it:

I digress.  I just hot glued the bigger solid pink plate onto the tall candlestick.  Then hot glued the small candlesticks together.  Then glue them onto the solid pink plate, and topped it off with the polka dotted plate.  I used hot glue because that's all I had for a super quick thing like this, but it will probably come apart eventually.  I would suggest E-5000 or something like that.

Party perfect!!

The boy and his birthday

Here are some pictures from Dr. Destructo's birthday.  We had family over to celebrate with cake and ice cream.  He wanted a race car cake, which idea comes from a cake book we have.  It looked so easy in the book...  Well, it wasn't quite as easy as it looked but I made do and it came out alright.  (was supposed to be standing up and be bright red and dark blue.  it ended up lying down and was pink and blue.  oh well, he loved it anyway! :)

He got some boy dress-up-

a remote control car which lasted most of the night, and no more-

and Woody and Buzz!!  He LOVES these!

He also got some shrinky dinks which were super fun and we want to get again.

Blowing out the candles-

He had a great day, thanks to all the fam and friends that we have.  Happy birthday, Dr. D!  I love you!!