Happy 4th Birthday !!

So her birthday's not til Wednesday, but we celebrated today. Only a couple of near catastrophes, and everything went almost as planned. The cake ( see below ) was ridiculously time consuming from the get-go, and about half way into baking it,
( which took 4 and a half hours ) she decided that she wanted a Little Mermaid cake. We don't have a Little Mermaid Barbie, it was 9pm Saturday night, and all the decorations for the party were Cinderella. Little Mermaid wasn't happening. I showed her a few pics of cakes like hers online and she seemed OK with it after a while.




We bought her present back in December. A yellow,ride-on Corvette that we found at Big Lots while we were out Christmas shopping. It has sat in it's box until Saturday. Howie assembled it last night in the basement and charged it overnight. This morning he went to check on it and found that not only would it not charge, it had a big crack in the quarter panel. ( That will teach me to shop at Big Lots). So we were hours away from her party with no gift, not sure if Big Lots would even return our money 7 months after we purchased it, and even if we could get a refund and get somewhere to buy something else, these ride on cars take 18 hours to charge up the first time.

Thankfully, we had the receipt, and Big Lots promised to refund our money. We found a Barbie Jeep at Toys R Us ( though not the screaming deal we got on the Corvette ), and we got it together and charged long enough for her to take a couple of laps. Personally I think it was a bigger hit, because it's pink. And of course pink trumps yellow when your a 4 year old girl.