Where did my infant go?

The Big 0-6

My baby girl is turning 6 in just a few hours, and I'm having a very hard time with it.

She is such an awesome kid, and I really need there to be a way to stop her from growing so fast. Since the day she was born her father and I have been in awe of what she accomplishes from day to day.  She is super funny, super smart, and beyond super creative.

I have made her a special birthday cake for the last five years, but this year she wanted to design her own. So she drew out what she wanted and gave me every last detail involved. However, as most kids do, she changed her mind several times, and tonight we had our final design meeting over it. A quick trip to the store for the final provisions and in a matter of hours the cake was done. It turned out way better than I had imagined, and the beautiful part was it was all her idea and doing.  I did bake it, convinced her the flower pan would be a good idea, and spent what seemed like an eternity piping the grass on. But the rest was all her. She wanted Fluttershy from My Little Pony, and luckily Toys R Us has the new My Little Pony Pop set, so we were able to get a Fluttershy that didn't have the "hair" on it. In our discussions this was important to me, because who wants to have synthetic hair in their icing...not this chick.

She didn't want anything on it that had to do with a birthday. Just a simple pony, in a simple field, with simple flowers.  Simple, yet beautiful at the same time. It is a Duncan Hines vanilla cake in a Wilton Daisy pan, cheap white icing with Wilton Leaf Green coloring in it, Wilton sugar flowers and a My Little Pony Pop Fluttershy. (Wilton doesn't make ponies...)

This is not the first cake she has designed. A month ago we played with sugar sheets and she did a cool Gilligan cake.  I am an absolute fan of sugar sheets, and even thought they are pricey, they still are not as expensive as fondant and they taste way better.  I haven't had the opportunity to experiment with them a great deal, but they will definitely be my go-to in the future.

On a side note, my cousin liked the Gilligan's Island cake I made and asked for one for her birthday. Ask and you shall receive.

Now that everyone is up to date on the cake in my life, I'm going to go to bed and cry a little because I no longer have a five-year-old. I may even give her a kiss or two while she sleeps. Because that is what mother's do.