Alexa turned 3 on Monday, June 27th! I’m still in shock that she’s already 3 years old…but eventually I’ll accept it. :) She wanted a Word World cake for her birthday but I wasn’t quite that confident that I could make one look at all decent so I asked what her next choice would be -- and she decided she wanted Curious George. So I decided to make my first cake ever that I’d cover with fondant. It was pretty easy to make the fondant and even working with it - but I ran into trouble when I tried to design it without decent tools -- I wasn’t “allowed” to go get the tools I wanted so I had to make do with things I could find in my house -- it turned out okay but I wasn’t really thrilled with the overall results/look of the cake. For Logan’s birthday hopefully I’ll have talked him into getting me at least some of the tools I’d like! :)
Here’s a photo recap of her actual birthday & then the making of her cake & her actual birthday “party” (just family over for cake & ice cream) was on Friday - those pictures will come later.
Grandma Fennema stopped by with a butterfly necklace & a princess cake for Alexa along with her cousins Faith, Kinzie, and Luke
Auntie Jill, Grandma Schouten, Logan, Grandma Fennema, Luke, and Faith watching Alexa open a few gifts on her birthday ~ and Kinzie helping Alexa open something
Auntie Jill gave Alexa a princess hat & sunglasses & Grandma Schouten gave her a pretty new dress
Auntie Jena gave Alexa a new pooh swimming suit, a back pack purse and m&m’s :)
We gave Alexa a big girl bike - here she is riding it for the first time (Daddy is adjusting the training wheels) :)
Alexa’s finished Curious George birthday cake…not really looking like him but oh well! 
Alexa thought she should help :)
Logan woke up from his nap before I was done shaping the cake…so he got to be occupied by eating the parts I was carving off :)
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