Birthday Cake Retrospective - Obsessions through the Ages

People have been commenting on Facebook or the comments of the blog or in person about the Trampoline cake. I agree with every comment - the cake is wonderful and I love that Rachel is committed to always making the kids's cakes. Here's a review of the cakes so far:

Asher's one year old cake was a model of his favorite toy at the time, a castle shape sorter (the link is Wal mart just because they had the best picture, not because I encourage you to shop there):



Asher's second cake reveals his obsession with letters and the letter blocks. He chose what letters should be on each block on the cake.


Asher's third birthday cake showed his interest in calendars. Note that his birthday is circled.



Asher's fourth birthday (I guess this retrospective could be called "obsessions through the years") was a map of the world:



Asher's fifth birthday was the trampoline with a kid playing. This is the only one that I don't think represents an obsession although he does love the trampoline.



And the first of Chiara's cakes was her first birthday - a puppy cake based on her love for both puppies and the word puppy.

Rachel's Birthday

Hmmm. I thought there were some adorable pictures here of Chiara smiling and floating in the bathtub. I'll have to make those their own entry. Ok.

We had a little birthday lunch for Rachel at Freddie's this weekend. It was short notice so not all our guests could make it but those who did enjoyed the weather and play scape and of course food and cake. When we told Asher who was coming he said, "Those are all my best friends!" Very exciting.

I baked the cake and Asher and Rachel iced it:




It was my first time to meet Dylan Sullivan and hold him. What a cutie!

Audrey, Will, & Keegan ordering some lunch:

Ash getting some snuggles:

It looks like Rachel is whistling or maybe singing to Chiara:

I wonder if Asher is telling Audrey about a country: