Birthday kids!

Happy birthday to sweet Hendrik and sweet Abby!  Time sure flies when you're having fun!

 

 

Abby really, really wanted a pink cake with a bird on it.  A particular bird from a special postcard sent to Abby from Aunty Hilary while she was away in Australia and New Zealand.  Here is my first bird attempt!  Abby was pleased so that is all that matters. :)

 

Here is Hendrik's cake this year.  Initially he wanted a bug cake.  Then a cake with a stinky, lumpy, bumpy frog and toad.  Then a cake with a racetrack and a motorcycle.  Then he decided a racetrack with his Lightning McQueen car would be fine but it would have to be a dirt track because he has dirt track McQueen.  Done!  This was one of the least complicated birthday cakes ever.  He loved it!

Thanks to Dwayne for baking Hendrik's second cake.  The first one I baked wasn't fully cooked but I didn't realize it until too late...

Thanks to Mom for making the icing and spreading the "backgrounds" on the cakes so I could tend to Emma and get the decorating done in the same day.