Happy 5th Birthday Isaac!

Tuesdays around here are pretty busy. Isaac has speech therapy in the mornings, and pre-school in the afternoon. Then I clean the pre-school after the kids all get home from school (I get a killer discount). My mother-in-law also comes on Tuesdays to help watch little Jared while Isaac is at speech and so we can work on craft and sewing projects together. So throw in a birthday and a sick hubby and I was frazzled. Isaac wanted a firetruck cake for his birthday and I was determined to make him one. I was making the fondant instead of buying it and the red would not cooperate! After 2 hours of fighting it I had to go to the store to buy more marshmallows and make another batch. Why in the world did I wait so long!? I also had to do the birthday shopping the day of because Jared was sick and I have been busy taking him to the Dr, filling prescriptions, and just taking care of everyone. I had to take him to the Dr 2 times and we still ended up in the ER after Isaac's birthday party for IV antibiotics.

Anyway, on to the birthday. Here is the cake after I cut it and started to assemble it. We decided to make Red from the movie Cars, Isaac's favorite movie.

crumb coat

 This is the final cake. I was a little disappointed because it didn't turn out just like I wanted, but considering I didn't have all the time I needed and I was rushed, I was happy with it. I ran out of time to put all the finishing details I would have liked on the cake, but the whole thing is completely edible. The kids LOVED it!

 I tried to use silver pearl dust for the bumpers, mirrors, and a few of the lights to make them look chrome, but I couldn't get them to paint right. Hopefully I can figure it out by John's birthday in 2 weeks, because he wants a Lightning McQueen cake. I better get started on his right away!

 Here is Isaac opening his gifts.

 He was so surprised to get a new bike!

He was happy to ride his new bike! It makes all the stress of the day worth it to see the smiles on his face!

Side note: Jared is finally doing a little better now that we have some antibiotics on board that are working. We have gone to the ER 2 times for the IV antibiotics and we still have to go again tomorrow, hopefully for the last time. I am thinking he should be able to eat tonight as the swelling in his ear has gone down a ton and he can almost close his jaw completely. He has both inner and outer ear infections in his left ear.

Thanks for reading!