Jackson knows that he gets to start school after his birthday this year and because he knows this little piece of information he asks me every day if today is his birthday. Sometimes he'll even ask me a couple times a day just in case I wasn't sure the first time, I guess. Anyway, he did the same thing last Christmas and the solution at Christmas was an advent calendar. Well, that made me come up with the idea of a birthday advent calendar. I googled the idea and checked Pinterest (of course), but I didn't find anything that wasn't ornate and time consuming. I just wanted something simple so that Jackson could count down the days till his birthday himself. So here's my creation, a cupcake with star stickers as sprinkles. It took me about 5 minutes to make and he's going to LOVE it! I think I'm going to make a fancier-shmancier cupcake and make it a general birthday countdown that we can use over and over again for anyone's birthday, so stay tuned!
This year we had our big family Easter dinner on Friday because Grandma had to work on Sunday. I tried out a new recipe for dessert which I found on Pinterest (of course). It's a super rich chocolate brownie cake. It turned out great, but was a little too rich for my taste. However, I really think that if you are a true die-hard chocolate lover then you will LOVE this recipe . I thought I was a true die-hard chocolate lover, but this cake beat me. A good friend of mine makes Easter cupcakes with her kids every year. I saw them on her blog last year and I thought they were so cute! This year we made them at our house to hand out to our neighbors. Jackson helped with the baking and decorating. He has some mad grass and egg decorating skills! He also decorated the plates that we handed out the cupcakes on. Our neighbors were quite impressed with his work. For some reason I still get these little momentary realizations that I'm a mother of two, and I get this rush of emo...
Have you seen the giant wilton cupcake pan? It makes a big huge cupcake? (walmart or anywhere that has wilton carries them) Your poster made me think Jackson would love a giant cupcake cake for his birthday, lol! Your birthday advent is a very cute idea!
ReplyDeleteI have seen the giant cupcake pans, they are really cute. Unfortunately, Jackson doesn't like any kind of cake. ...or cookie, or brownie, or muffin, or anything else yummy and terrible for you. Crazy kid!
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