Baking and Dancing

Kaden brought home a flyer form school saying, "Cake Decorating Contest". Anybody who knows me knows how much I go crazy for baking and doing cakes is my favorite :) (you should have seen how crazy I went at the last bake sale) ANYWAYS The contest has a winner for each class and the winners get a pretty awesome gift card to walmart, and with Kaden saving up to buy his Kindle Fire, I thought holy moly, he can do this, he has seen me do soooo many cakes and I'm sure we can find something awesome for him to do. I can only bake the cake or cupcakes and the rest is up to him. So last week we went through my 10 different baking cookbooks and spent hours online looking at cakes finding one for him to do. Finally he picked the first cake we looked at, a caterpillar. So we got all the different goodies for that last week at the store. The cakes are going to be judged tomorrow, so this morning I baked the rainbow cupcakes, and when he gets home he will frosting them (eeekkkk I'm nervous for him) and putting it all together. It makes me so happy that he is excited to do this. Both of the boys love to help me in the kitchen but this will be the first time that I HAVE to be hand off! So we shall see how that goes. Photos and the recipe will follow later.

Tomorrow is also the School Carnival where they are doing a cake walk, in which I volunteered to donate a cake. When Kaden was looking at hundreds of cakes so was I, I wanted to make something new, but also something that the kids would be excited about at the carnival. I'm so tired of doing my tye dye cupcakes, although the kids love them. I finally stumbled across a watermelon cake :) It's very cool and I'm going to work with fondant, something I've only worked with a few times. So today I also have to work on that cake. Photos and recipes will be up later as well.

Next Friday is the audition for the talent show!!!!! Kaden came home just busting at the seams with excitement to tell me that there is a talent show and he wanted to dance for it. My first thought was, "oh boy, you can't just get up there and shake your booty." So we had a long talk about it, and decided we would make up a simple dance or find one he could learn online. Next we had to find a song, in our house that was a no brainer, "Sexy and I Know It" by LMFAO.....only problem is that song isn't quite appropriate for an Elementary school talent show. No problem, we re-wrote the song, the lyrics now go, "I'm Kaden and I Know:, and talks about Legos and dancing. And I just happen to have a very musically inclined brother who writes and creates his own music all the time. So I have enlisted his help to produce and "rap" the song. So only 8 days until the audition and we have to get this dance learned and under his belt, so today I have spent most of the morning working out some dance steps that aren't too hard, but also show case Kaden's already "talent" of break dancing. Whew I'm exhuasted, and Kysen keeps showing me his ideas for the dance which pretty much looks like doing pushups but only moving his butt. He's hilarious!!

So today is a day of baking and dancing.......on these are the days of my life :)