Life as I know it!: Daddy's birthday cake!

Although Derek's birthday isn't until June 6th, I decided to bake him a cake with Drayden on Saturday. Plans were to celebrate it on Sunday but Drayden didn't seem to want to nap so...baking it is.

8 Steps To A Wonderful Cake

Step One: Get Drayden set-up at the kitchen table with all things necessary. Drayden had fun getting at the utensils, mixing bowl and ingredients.

Step Two: Read instructions, and direct Drayden on what to do...even if he's got a mind of his own and wants to do EVERYTHING on his own. This unfortunately, is where it started getting messy!

Step Three: Pouring batter IN the cake pan; help needed. Again, messy situation and results in Drayden eating and licking more batter than he puts in the pan. And of course, he gets the bigger spatula?

Step Four: In the oven it goes...again Drayden seems to want to do this part too. Which intern I ended up doing it of course.

Step Five: Keeping Drayden occupied until it's ready! So we wrapped up Daddy's gift (lots of tape was apparently required) and signed a card with beautiful scribbles of love. Don't think for a minute this was kept a secret...He gave it to Daddy right away and told him what it was before even opening it.

Step Six: Icing and decorating the cake. Again this is an extremely dangerous task! Chocolate icing in more places than others, including double dipping to "try it" and if anyone knows Drayden you know he's a drooler! EWWWWWWW. And not to forget the 4 different kinds of sprinkles that obviously all had to be on the cake.

Step Seven: Add candles...sing Happy Birthday Daddy! Drayden helped blowing out candles and the joy on that kids' face was priceless.

Step Eight: Enjoy a piece of cake that our son was so proud of.