thomas the train cake
with the help of my faithful assistant, allison roehrenbeck, i assembled this cake for the 3rd birthday of mr. luke mielke, with whom we will celebrate at fuddruckers tomorrow. he’s already been a semi-recipient of a thomas the train cake, but this one is on a much larger scale (and the train itself is cake). […]
christmas cookies, round 2
last saturday, mandy and her girls came over and we finished baking cutout cookies and then decorated them. isaac decorated one cookie, ate it, and ate two undecorated cookies and called it quits. the girls hung in till the bitter end and decorated a zillion cookies. the last is my favorite.
the girl
well, i’ve posted it on facebook and twitter and texted or called everyone i know, so it’s not really news, but since this blog is also my version of our baby book, i’m going to have to post it here, too. sorry if it’s the 40th time you’ve heard the tale… yesterday, we went to […]
baby boy cupcakes
made these for a yet-to-be-named-baby-boy-on-the-way… with some fondant assistance from allison r. and her degree in art from wake forest. 🙂
cookie apprentice
isaac and i decided it was time to to a little holiday cooking. he helped make the cookie dough, by reading numbers on the recipe and counting out the ingredients. and by sticking his fingers into sugar and licking them. both were very helpful. then, we got down to the fun part… cutting out the […]
the new “no thanks”
last night, i had a handful of peanuts and i offered some to isaac. he casually replied, “i’m good.”
eliot’s baby gift christmas present
so, when i found out that lesolie (sister) was going to have a brand new baby girl, i had the bright idea to try my hand at quilting. leslie was not gung-ho about all the pink baby girl items on the market, so i searched for some skull pink stuff and a cool pattern to […]
another isaac-ism.
yesterday, after a drawn out battle over taking a nap, isaac informed me that i “was on his last nervous”.
christmas wishlist.
me: isaac, what do you want for christmas? isaac: nothing. me: i thought you said you wanted “hiro” the train? isaac: i do want hiro the train. me: for christmas? isaac: no. for my train set.