Peyton's birthday party!

Craig ended up having to work all day today, which was a bummer because he really wanted to have a huge party for Peyton. Craig loves to make homemade root beer, but for some strange reason here in NC the only place you can get the dry ice is in Winston-Salem, which the place is 45 minutes away. Round trip of 1 1/2 hours is a bit much for dry ice, but he wanted to do it, but then ended up having to work. He rolled in our doors at 5:15 and our party guests were coming at 6:00 and he still had to decorate the cake. I thought he was going to make just one cake. He had baked 2, 9 inch round cakes last night and then said he would decorate them when he got home. Well, he decided he wanted to make one Curious George cake and one Cookie Monster cake instead of 1 double layer cake. Fine and dandy if you have the time. Remember our guests were arriving in 45 minutes. He decided to make up the frosting and do both. I have to say, I was impressed. He did a great job with the cakes and really didn't make too big of a mess. An added bonus was that Peyton knew exactly who the cakes were supposed to be. Last year Craig decorated Peyton an Elmo cake for him to eat and it was such a mess with the deep red frosting, so this year, with the blue I assumed it wouldn't be much cleaner.


Here are the awesome cakes that Craig quickly decorated.

Having 2 cakes worked out great too. The kids all wanted the blue cookie monster cake and so that is the one that I put the candles on, and that is the one that all the spit went on to. All of us "smart" adults took some unspit on Curious George cake. Yummy!

Here is Peyton after eating his cake. Not too bad. At least he is over putting everything in his hair. I am wondering how his socks got covered in frosting. Maybe a new napkin?

Peyton was so cute, he kept saying "Cookies, yum, yum, yum"