Joshua is now five years old!! He celebrated his birthday at Easter with a cake at Grandma & Grandpa's, then he had another special cake at Uncle Terry & Aunt Theresa's the day before his birthday, he celebrated on the actual day at home with Mommy, Daddy and Nathaniel and the finally the following Saturday with a party at the park with some friends! He wanted a Cars birthday party so I bought the Lightning McQueen cake pan at Michaels when it was on sale a while back...this was my most adventurous cake decorating experiment to date (I'd concocted a lion cake for his second birthday that had turned out pretty well, but the next year's Spider-man cake was pretty pathetic). We weren't sure how many kids were going to show up at his party, so decided we'd do cupcakes for that and do his actual cake for his actual birthday. 
Brian took the boys on some errands that afternoon and left me with a couple of hours and that's about how long it took me to decorate his Lightning McQueen cake. It turned out pretty good - much better than I'd planned! Joshua's one disappointment with turning five was that he couldn't start kindergarten the next day. We found something that would be an okay substitute...his own library card!!
Brian took the boys on some errands that afternoon and left me with a couple of hours and that's about how long it took me to decorate his Lightning McQueen cake. It turned out pretty good - much better than I'd planned! Joshua's one disappointment with turning five was that he couldn't start kindergarten the next day. We found something that would be an okay substitute...his own library card!!
Our library lets you get a library card once you are in school or when you are five. Since storytime and library day was the day after his 5th birthday, we planned that that day we'd get his library card. He was very excited and after storytime was over, we filled out the form to get his card. Then the big moment came for him to write his own name on the back of the card...which was hard because ball point pens had a hard time writing on the surface of the card. So we decided to use a sharpie marker and that worked. Everyone, the librarian, Sister Oliver (the storylady and a friend from church), and I were very excited for Joshua...he quickly picked out some books to take home and informed everyone (for several days) that he was now 5 and had his own library card now so he didn't have to borrow Mommy's. 
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What an awesome cake Beth!!! Mine pales in comparison. You 'ought to be proud.
Hard to believe how fast kids grow up. Hope you're enjoying every moment. You're a great mom.
Melanie
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