Drew turned six years old today and we celebrated with tacos, fondant everywhere, and talking about electricity until my brain hurts.
After Daniel visited his brother Ben (who was giving a presentation in Detroit) this morning, we piled into the living room for Present Time.
Our family lives throughout the United States now (South Carolina, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, and West Virginia) and they generously sent boxes of birthday gifts for Drew. So we began with those.
You can view the entire set of pictures here.
Of the presents we gave him, Adventure Time and science won HANDS DOWN.
[Adventure Time, for those who don’t know.]
This is the face of Drew the Human who hasn’t been able to stop putting snap circuits together.
I was incredibly worried that his birthday cake would flop but thankfully it didn’t! I made a rainbow cake with fondant so he could doodle on the cake. But fondant normally tastes gross so I used the recipe for rolled buttercream fondant on allrecipes. It was perfect! Well, it tasted perfect but as you can see in the picture above, I did have a wonky mistake on that one side.
However, it was impossible to use the edible color markers without sinking into the fondant. Maybe I should have let the fondant sit for a few hours first? I’m not sure. Either way, Drew added a few things to the cake and it was quickly evident that I needed to finish the doodles.
I had wondered if this cake would be an annual birthday tradition but the three of us agreed that the fondant was a little much. It’s a LOT of work and very rich and since the doodling didn’t turn out like we planned, this is probably our last fondant cake.
But I will totally make a rainbow cake again. It was easy and yummy.
Drew has such a sneaky, wiggly, and joyful disposition. I love him dearly and I’m really thankful that I get to be his mama.
And lastly, here is our yearly birthday video:
the questions: age six from Jennifer Bergey on Vimeo.