Happy Birthday Christopher!

I'm basically queen of posting things out of order and late.. deal with it. :)

This post is from Christopher's birthday a couple of weeks ago. He had to work, so while he was gone the girls made him a cake. I did very little to help and pretty much let them do it all on their own with a little instruction. It was SO messy, but SO worth all the clean up to watch these two little girls working together for their Daddy.

The week before the girls and I went to the store and picked up all the things we would need for the cake. Lorelei picked a strawberry cake, Addison picked pink frosting. Lorelei picked green decorating frosting, and Addison picked a bottle of pastel candy sprinkle flowers. Their favorite parts were mixing it, decorating, and of course.. eating it. What kid doesn't love cake, right? Here are a few pictures of the cake baking fun.

Step one: dump it all in a bowl.

Lorelei cracked an egg and did fine. Addison cracked the egg, which went down the front of the cabinets, and tossed the shells in the bowl. hahaha then she said with a shrug of her shoulders, "its okay, Mommy." As if, as long as some part of the egg was in the bowl its all the same.

Mixing. Wow. Talk about messy! Lorelei in the background 'reading' how to put on the frosting, as she told me.

After Lorelei wrote Dad in green frosting, they both sprinkled the little pastel colored candies all over the top.

Yes, they used the entire bottle of sprinkles. SO gross. But Chris was a very happy Daddy when he saw this.