A cake for my own birthday girl

To be honest, I have been so burnt out on baking lately that I really wasn't looking forward to making Phoebe's birthday cake - especially since I had just made 2 dozen cupcakes for a small playgroup birthday celebration for her just the day before.  But I knew that I would feel like a terrible mother if I spent all this time making cakes for strangers, then totally bail on my daughters own birthday.

So I kept it reasonably simple.

Phoebe loves all things fish and we spend lots of time watching Finding Nemo, taking field trips to the pet store, and most of bathtime is spent pretending she's a fish swimming in the ocean.

Everything on the cake is fondant, including these little guys that I hand sculpted until about 1:00 in the morning the night before her birthday.

I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.  Now if I could only find someone to do all of the baking, frosting making, and stacking of the cakes and leave just the decorating up to me, I'd be a happy camper.

Phoebe's only request for her cake was that it was "schockalate", so I think she was pretty excited to see that she got some sugary fishes too.

Here's the birthday girl herself before gobbling up fishy number three.

Two

I'm still trying to get my head around the fact that I am a mother - let alone a mother to a two year old. 

There's so much I could say about this wonderful little person - about how much she has changed my life, changed me as a person, and brought more joy to her daddy and I's life than she will ever know - but it would probably fill up more posts than blogger would allow.

Happy 2nd Birthday Phoebe!  You are so loved!