Ahh…the birthday.

I can’t believe she’s 6. Of course, I can’t believe her brother is almost 4. Can someone please make time stand still? Although I do appreciate that with getting older comes a little less attitude (at least at 6. I’m sure this will change as we near 11, 12, and Lord help me 13.)

There was no “fancy” cake this year – Ellie had decided she wanted a snowflake cake for her birthday, which seemed easy enough to do!

We frosted with buttercream (purple of course), and then used crystal sugar to put a snowflake on top.

I got the pattern online – just printed a snowflake picture off of google and then used a thick plastic to make a stencil for the top of the cake. I thought it turned out pretty well. And the sugar really made it look like the fuzzy edges of a real snowflake.

For her birthday, one of the presents we gave her was a build a bear kit. She is really into doing projects, and so we knew she’d love it. You can tell that she doesn’t get to do all the steps all that often though because after we stuffed the bear and I was showing her how to sew it, I gave her the needle and told her to go ahead…she just looks up at me wide-eyed and says “i get to sew??”

She did a fine job!

And then Cinderella Teddy Bear was finished! (No…I don’t know where we come up with these names.)

She loves her! Cinderella has even been to sharing at school (during B week of course).