Brooke has been VERY concerned about her BIG BIRTHDAY #6 this year.
It is a unicorn and pony theme, of course.
She picked out her perfect pony idea from off the internet – which we duplicated – and it was quite involved – we cut out a template, got pink cake spray to spray over the template and the decorate over it.
Some recent conversations about this process
“Mom that paper your drawing on has two lines. (I was eyeballing an enlargement of a coloring book picture and had to do it in two steps)
It is a unicorn and pony theme, of course.
She picked out her perfect pony idea from off the internet – which we duplicated – and it was quite involved – we cut out a template, got pink cake spray to spray over the template and the decorate over it.
Some recent conversations about this process
“Mom that paper your drawing on has two lines. (I was eyeballing an enlargement of a coloring book picture and had to do it in two steps)
" It just doesn’t look very good. "
ME: “We are just going to spray the part we cut out, no one will see it. I am putting this piece of paper over the cake to spray (as I show her).
Brooke says dubiously, “I don’t think anyone will want to eat paper, “
Me, “No one will eat paper, we spray where the hole is.”
Brooke: Do you stay in the lines when you color?”
“Yes”
“Well, Mandy and Evie’s mom doesn’t.”
As I am cutting the template out, “Are you a good cutter?”
Me, “I would hope so, I have had 31 years to get it right.”
“I am too,”
(As I am taping parts of the template that need reinforcing) “Why are you taping that?”
“So this will be sturdy.”
“Sturdy? That wouldn’t be very good.”
Me: “I said STURDY not DIRTY.”
Brooke with a nervous giggle, “Oh, sometimes I don’t know what I’m talking about.”
It was Brooke’s turn for family prayers, “ Thank you that we can make my cake tomorrow”
ME: “We are just going to spray the part we cut out, no one will see it. I am putting this piece of paper over the cake to spray (as I show her).
Brooke says dubiously, “I don’t think anyone will want to eat paper, “
Me, “No one will eat paper, we spray where the hole is.”
Brooke: Do you stay in the lines when you color?”
“Yes”
“Well, Mandy and Evie’s mom doesn’t.”
As I am cutting the template out, “Are you a good cutter?”
Me, “I would hope so, I have had 31 years to get it right.”
“I am too,”
(As I am taping parts of the template that need reinforcing) “Why are you taping that?”
“So this will be sturdy.”
“Sturdy? That wouldn’t be very good.”
Me: “I said STURDY not DIRTY.”
Brooke with a nervous giggle, “Oh, sometimes I don’t know what I’m talking about.”
It was Brooke’s turn for family prayers, “ Thank you that we can make my cake tomorrow”
“Thank you that we can spray the cake pink,”
“Thank you that I can help my mom do the cake tomorrow.”
So as we made and frosted the pony masterpiece today she said at least 9 times like a 13 year old, "This is SO awesome!"
