Sesame Street

Kyle's third birthday is tomorrow! I can't believe he's already three! Time has flown by... it seems like just yesterday he was a tiny baby and now he's a little man. He can do almost everything all by himself. Just ask him, "I do it all by myself!"

To help celebrate, I nominated myself to make his birthday cake again this year. The theme is Sesame Street and Kyle's only birthday wish for his Aunt Nerned was an Elmo cake. Easy enough, right?! Not quite so... do you know how hard Elmo Red icing is to make? Yeah, I didn't know either. Until now. Now, I know! Six gel colors and one tube of already-made red icing later, the icing is Elmo Red. My sister-in-law, Brandi, helped me out tonight... thank the Lord! I told her that I'd do it all over again because it wasn't that bad. But next time I might just buy the Elmo Red icing at HyVee.

Here are the pictures of the Elmo cake and his cupcake friends - Bert, Ernie, Cookie Monster, and Oscar. Several tubes of icing, a few M&Ms, and this is what you get!





Now I must head to bed and pray that when I clean the bathroom tomorrow, the Scrubbing Bubbles will take the red food coloring out from under my fingernails and cuticles!