I didn't want to have to make the Kiddo another cake. Call me lazy but one (make that two, since it takes two pineapple upside down cakes to feed 12 people) is enough every couple of months.
Because I didn't want to do the work of making one myself I went to the bakery near my mother in laws house and ordered a dozen cupcakes. I figured little extra I'd pay (they charge 5 and change for 9 on the 'pre-made' rack) would be comparable and I could get what I wanted written on them.
My words to the lady (when placing the order Saturday afternoon) were that I'd like 12 cupcakes, half of them chocolate and half vanilla. I wanted thinner icing (one reason I didn't want pre-made was the inch of frosting on the top). I wanted half of the cupcakes to have the number 4 on top, and the other half to have "old" written on them. She wrote all that down and assured me that the decorators they have there are all "very very good at making things cute and will add some fun decoration too".
I left thinking we'd get exactly what I wanted with maybe a little extra cuteness and was, naively, very excited to pick them up on Sunday.
6 bucks and some change later this is what we picked up. I'll give them credit, half of the cupcakes were chocolate and half were vanilla. The rest though... yeah I was cranky. That's a good inch of icing, and sprinkles (oh yeah they know how to decorate cute alright). The word old apparently wouldn't fit on each cupcake so she spread it out over three and left it. That meant she better do a four over two cupcakes or gosh it might be unbalanced.
I take sollace in three facts. First I didn't have to bake the things. Second if 9 cupcakes cost 5 and a half, then I am going to tell myself I paid the extra dollar for the extra three cupcakes and NOT the bakeries steller decorating skills. Bonus fact is that my lesson is learned at a time and event where spiffy cool cupcakes weren't really required.
I left thinking we'd get exactly what I wanted with maybe a little extra cuteness and was, naively, very excited to pick them up on Sunday.
The kiddo's was given his first camera yesterday. It's a blue vtech kidizoom and I was lucky on Ebay in order to be able to get it for him. It was a late birthday present (since the Man couldn't be in AZ with us when we celebrated we saved our gifts for him till we were all home). He loves his camera. He's taken at least a hundred pictures with it and every time he takes one he figures out a little more how to get what he wants. It's really fun to see the world through a 4 year olds eyes.
The other present we gave him was a little einstiens vtech laptop. You can get them at target for not to much and the Kiddo looooves his little einsteins. It's a cute computer and he lugs it around everywhere. I think we did very well this year staying in our price range and finding things he really loves.
*sniff* they get big so fast
Like pretty much everybody else around heren I really dislike daylight saving time. It makes me cranky. Maybe it's the fact that all the sudden my day is one hour shorter when it matters (the morning). That or it's trying to get the Kiddo to get to sleep when his little brain is telling him it isn't really bedtime yet.
The mans mom wanted initially for me to do another full party for the Kiddo. I balked. Not only do I not want to do the work, but selfishly I want this year to be my families year... I want that one to be the party he remembers. So we're going to do a lunch get together vs a party. We're having mini subs and chips. And I'll buy some store bought cupcakes. Still is a party, but it's a good compromise between what she wanted and what I wanted and makes us both happy.
