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Saturday, October 13, 2007
Isaac's birthday party was so much fun! The weather was perfect, even though it was pouring yesterday. I'm so grateful to Ryan and Leigh, who took over the catering. The food was tasty, and the cake was...amazing. Seriously.
Think about all the people you know, and then think about what they would do if you said you were thinking monkey cake, and Hey! Maybe it should fling poo, just like a real monkey!
Normal person: ha ha. Ignore. Cakes do not fling things, especially feces.
Leigh: Build spring-loaded monkey arm. Cover with gum paste and frosting. Load it up with Raisinets. Cake-monkeys poop Raisinets, fyi. But everyone knows that.
Poo-Flinging Monkey Cake. I think most phrases are funny when you precede them with the words, "Nothing says love like" This is especially true in this case. Nothing says love like Poo-Flinging Monkey Cake.
It tasted great, too. I'm sure Leigh is working on a full writeup with detail photos (like the one for our wedding cake), and I'll post a link when that's ready. The inside was very moist chocolate cake. We strapped Isaac into his booster chair and let him have at it.
First, he flipped the cake off its small orange paper plate and onto his tray. The cake was ignored while he enjoyed the pretty plate. Flip, flip, gnaw gnaw, ignore cake, touch ground next to chair, ignore cake.
Eventually, cake was discovered.
Cake good.
There was cake on the back of his head, too. Not sure how that happened. He was very happy, at least until we came at him with the baby wipes.
Since the monkey arm wasn't especially edible, the cake was cut away around the intact arm. Eventually mechanism was visible and it looked like something out of the Terminator. We're hoping it won't grow a new monkey.
Rita ordered custom M&Ms with his name and First Birthday on them, and they were adorable favors. I also had little rubber ducks with birthday hats (Isaac enjoyed his in the bath tonight), and Dennis made a mix CD of kid-friendly music.
I taped three 1-lb boxes of baking soda together (with a bit of cardboard between them for extra length) to make a block that was 15" long and 3lbs, just like Isaac, and wrapped it up and labeled it with his birth stats. It was so tiny!
He had a good time, and loved having everyone sing Happy Birthday to him. Hooray for the first year!
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