Almost made it to the party....

My gorgeous Ethan celebrated his 4th birthday 2 days ago... and all was well... I spent the day shopping for the ingredients to make the cake, candles and all the other stuff needed for the party at the kindergarten later on this morning.... then I picked him up from kindergarten at 3.30 pm and took him to the pool with my friend, his daughter, my sister and 3 of her 4 kids... after a couple of hours in the water, we all went together for a celebratory family dinner.... and Ethan had a lovely day! :-)

Last night, my friend and I stayed up till past midnight making Ethan's cake.... He was in charge of the cutting out and basic shaping of the cake into an aeroplane, which was Ethan's choice for this year's birthday cake... and I was in charge of the kneading and handling of the sugar-paste.....

I think both of us were very proud of the results.... we worked pretty well as a cake-making team :-) and after almost 6 hours of kneading, cutting, shaping, taking photos of our masterpiece.... and of course, standing on our feet, we finally sit down to relax... and that is when it starts... my poor little baby crying out for his mummy.... and my son is not one to ever wake up in the middle of the night.... so there I am, 1 am and I find myself changing bed sheets and pyjamas because the poor little soul is puking his little guts out!!!... talk about bad timing! There's some form of 24 hour stomach bug going around at his kindergarten.... and yeah, seems like the poor thing has caught it.... It's now 6.30 am.... and after 3 bed changes.... the disappointment is starting to surface in both of us.... I just spoke to his teacher and we are going to wait an hour see how he is doing and if from now to then he doesn't vomit, maybe we will take him to the kindergarten just for the 45 minutes party and cake sharing.... I feel so sorry for him... he's been looking forward to this for weeks...

In the meantime... here is the cake that may never see the light of day.... and although it was a lot of fun making, I really hope I don't have to make another one for next week... :-)