Blake is 18 mos old today!

Blake is 18 mos old today! I can't believe my baby is a year and a half today. It's late but I can't sleep and I think I'm getting a cold again. So I decided to come out and write something about my munchkin. I have no stats on him until the first week of November but I can say that developmentally he is just fine. Regardless of how small he is he climbs on everything. I don't know how he does it but he does. He is sooooo fast and is into everything. He loves his big brother soooo much. It is monkey see monkey do around here. If Ethan does it than Blake must do it too. It's so cute to see their interaction. Blake loves to laugh, have fun and be soooo silly. Pretty much everything Ethan does is funny in Blake's book. Hopefully it stays like that. Blake is also such a lover too. I never imagined how strong the mother child bond could be until I had my own. He loves me to pieces and even though he is a handful and still doesn't sleep well, that love overwhelms me and makes me forget any negative I think he might have. He also loves to dance. One of these days I will video tape it and post it. Any time music is on you will surely see him dancing. It is the cutest thing. He loves music and he has started singing in the last few weeks. I love listening to his songs and wonder what he is singing about. This morning he was singing to Wonder Woman. Hysterical. I love him sooooo much. I am so lucky to have my boys. They are such good kids. Well after Blake's appointment with his GI doctor and his pediatrician I will let you all know what his stats are. Please keep him in your prayers. We are still trying to figure out why he isn't growing or why he still has no teeth. We aren't so worried about the teeth though because there have been cases where babies didn't cut their first tooth til they were 22 mos old. It's rare but it has happened. Still, we have no good conclusion as to why he is not growing but we have a great pediatrician so I have confidence that we'll figure it out. Maybe God just knows that I'm not ready for my baby to be a big boy any time soon. Happy half birthday Blake! I love you!

Fun on a beautiful Fall day!

We had a beautiful day on Sunday so we decided to take full advantage of the nice weather and jump in the leaves. We were at my in law's visiting them and Doug's Aunt Darlene from North Carolina. The kids absolutely loved playing in the leaves. Even Blake loved it. It seems that almost nothing bothers him. As long as I'm around he pretty much likes everything. We burried the kids and had a leaf fight that included mommy and Auntie Sarah. It was soooo much fun but poor Auntie Sarah got slugs in her hair. Serioulsy gross!

For anyone who doesn't know but the two in the yucky Packers jerseys are my adorable niece Abbie and the handsome nephew Ryan.

A Fright Fest Weekend!!

So for the first time in forever Doug and I went out on a date. Crazy right? Where did we go? To Fright Fest at Six Flags ofcourse. We love going there and we are total adrenaline junkies. We had such a good time and went with some of my fav people in the world. Tim and Rhi came with us on Friday night and there was no one there so we walked on every ride. I was kind of dreading our date night because all day it sprinkled and was cold but we bundled up really well and it dried up outside. So it turned out to be perfect. We had soooooo much fun and it was nice to feel like a couple again. We even went out to dinner and had a good laugh with our friends. Mike and Carson joined us and it felt like old times again except that we were tired and home before 11. Ah well that's what happens when you have kids. Well thanks to all who was involved including my mama for babysitting. We love you guys!!!

New Cakes!

Ok so these pics printed last to first and for some reason my little post is after all the pics. I'm still learning how to do this blogging stuff. Here is a birthday cake I made for a little girl. This is from the back of cake.

Here's the front obviously. One of these days I'll learn how to edit out the backround of these pics.

This cake was for our first customer. It was a german chocolate cake and she wanted a cape cod, New England kind of feel. So this is what we did.



Yes it says Mommatula!



Me finishing the cake with just minutes to spare. Don't I look lovely? Don't answer that!

So my friend Tina and I are starting a cake and dessert business which is not quite officially started but even so we have already had our first client. We were soooooo nervous but I think it turned out great. It was a huge hit with the family. Can't get any better than when they say it was like the big O for their mouth. Their words, not mine. Who thought I'd be a baker and really enjoy it. Anyway the second cake was for my friend Kelli's daughter Maggie's 6th birthday. I ran into a few snags making this one and it was my first topsy turvy cake that I learned a lot from. I still think it turned out pretty cute. Still can't believe that people actually like my cake. Even more my family is really enjoying all of my practice recipes.

And then there was cake! A lot of cake!

Here's the cake that took me days to make but it was soooo worth it. The top tier was a cocunut cake that I think I overbaked a little but was still yummy. The bottom tier was chocolate with chocolate chip. It was huge! Thank you soooo much to my friend Tina!!!! She came over and helped me make the superhero logos because I had been up late everynight for three nights. Thank God for her! Seriously. We made the Batman logo, the Green Lantern logo, the Flash logo, Superman's logo and Wonder Woman's logo that you can see on the pic where Ethan is blowing out his candles. Spiderman was made out of chocolate. I piped it in stages in a spiderman cake pan. I thought it turned out pretty good. There are a few things I would have done differently but oh well. Now I know for next time.

OK I'm sooo new at this. Here's more pics.

This was a training course that Batman taught the kids. I loved how Ethan's cape was flying.

He is just too ridiculously cute. He really liked wearing his costume too.

Batman and Wonder Woman. AKA Ethan and Abbie. I loved her costume!!

They just realized that Batman was behind them. It was really funny. He came behind them and when I said to say cheese for a picture he said "cheese" in his deepest voice with all of the kids. Once they heard him, they turned around and were amazed that the real Batman was there. It was soooooo funny!

This was them just before they heard Batman say "cheese". Awesome!

Superhero Birthday Party!

For Ethan's 4th birthday we decided to do a superhero party and I'm soooooo glad we did! He had soooo much fun. All the kids came dressed up as superheroes and daddy came as Batman. Ethan had no idea that it was daddy. I think he was just really excited that Batman was there. Best party ever!



























Ethan blowing out his candles with Uncle Timmy, one of our best friends.

















Ethan with his favorite cousin and one of his best friends.
















If you look closely at the decorations you can see that most of the pictures of superheroes were colored by Ethan. I printed 4 pictures of superheroes and then a bunch of coloring pages for Ethan to do. We put up about 15 pictures that he had colored himself. I think it added a really cute touch and he was proud to put up his creations.



Blake coming out of the training course tunnel. They all really got into it. It was a lot of fun.















Group picture of all the superheroes. It was awesome to see them all dressed up. I think that was my favorite part. Ethan loved his costume and, like always, really got into character. I love this boy!!!