The Gilsons: Izzy turns 7

Monday, April 26, 2010

Izzy turns 7

And the tradition continues. Here is the barnyard cake Izzy chose to decorate for her birthday.

As she was cutting and placing the twizzlers on the silo she asked if she had to put it all the way around the back. I told her it was her cake so it was up to her. She opted not to and I used this as a teaching opportunity to point out that decorating cakes is a lot of work. Her response: "It sure is, but it's my favorite part of my birthday to get to decorate the cake." Aren't those animal cupcakes (cow, chick and pig) the cutest. Check out http://familyfun.go.com/ for other cake ideas and instructions.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IZZY! WE LOVE HAVING YOU IN OUR FAMILY!!!

5 comments:

Goldthorpe Family! said...: I LOVE the cake! Wendi and Hailie were totally impressed, too.; April 27, 2010 6:31 AM
Jeanna Hayes said...: Oh my goodness - what an amazing cake! What a great mom you are! Glad to see the Gilsons are doing well! :); April 27, 2010 9:56 AM
Jones said...: oh my gosh, she's just so beautiful! And once again you have amazed me with that cake! I need to 'let go' a little and just let the kids do their own thing sometimes...

happy b-day!; April 27, 2010 12:38 PM
Jenn said...: Those cupcakes are adorable!! What a cute idea.; April 28, 2010 7:50 AM
Katie said...: What a cute cake! Decorating cakes is hard enough, but letting the kids help...that's angelic!!! You amaze me Miss Jamie.; May 4, 2010 3:05 PM

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Kid funnies

--Alex said, "If I could touch the sky, I'd grab a star and hang it in my bedroom.

Calvin said, "If I could touch the sky, I'd grab a cloud and use if for my pillow.

Izzy said, "If I could touch the sky, I'd go to the Milky Way and sell milk.

--While boiling apples for making applesauce Calvin said, "Look at all the hot going up. ... I smell BBQ." Alex said, "No, that's applesauce."

--While cleaning the basement and seeing Calvin not participating I said, "Calvin, do you know how to pick everything in here up?" Calvin said, "NO, I don't have big hands. I only have 2 hands." All I could do was laugh.

--Izzy said, "When I'm bored, I squish people's heads at church."

--Alex said, "I really want to take swimming lessons. I already know how to drown."

--Calvin after using the little potty. "Mommy, come get Henry quick or he's going to snitch my pee."

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"Schoolhouses are made wrong. If they must be, they should be built in a woods pasture beside a stream, where you could wade, swim, and be comfortable in summer, and slide and skate in winter. The windows should be cut to the floor, and stand wide open, so the birds and butterflies could pass through. You ought to learn your geography by climbing a hill, walking through a valley, wading creeks, making islands in them, and promontories, capes, and peninsulas along the bank. You should do your arithmetic sitting under trees adding hickorynuts, subtracting walnuts, multiplying butternuts, and dividing hazelnuts. You could use apples for fractions, and tin cups for liquid measure. You could spell everything in sight and this would teach you the words that are really used in the world. Every single one of us could spell incompatibility, but I never heard father, or the judge, or even the Bishop, put it in a speech.

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