The Ace of Cakes

Hi everyone, this is Bo. Emily usually writes these posts, but this post is about her. See, today is Emma Catherine's birthday and we're getting ready for her party tomorrow. (You may wonder why the party wasn't today - short answer is we're in the midst of college football season.) The theme of the party is Veggie Tales, which you can read more about here. Emma Catherine's favorite movie in the Veggie Tale series is about Larry Boy, a regular cucumber turned superhero. What? A cucumber turned superhero. All I can say is that if you skipped clicking the link above thinking you could just wing it and figure out what Veggie Tales is using context clues, you should have clicked here.

Anyway, back to the story. Emily decided she wanted to make a Larry Boy cake for Emma Catherine's party. Last year she made a really cute giraffe cake, so this is kinda becoming a tradition at our house. She started on the cake last night by baking the layers and cutting it into the shape of Larry Boy. Even then it was a dead-ringer for the character. But today was over the top. Pretty much all day she and her mom worked on piping the cake with various colors of frosting they made and dyed themselves. I would come and go from doing various chores, and marvel at how well it was coming together. By the end, I was nearly speechless - the cake looked great. Over the last several weeks Emily showed me pictures of similar Larry Boy cakes people have made, but none of them looked this good!

I'm really proud of Emily for so many things. She's a loving wife, a wonderful mom, and a caring friend. Today showed me once again just how much she loves Emma Catherine. It's not really about the cake. It's about the love she poured out in piping those hundreds (maybe thousands) of little dots until her hands cramped, just to make one little girl happy on her birthday. So, happy birthday to the sweetest little girl in the world, and special kudos to her mom, the Ace of Cakes.