Octonauts!
Barnacles, Kwazi, Peso... doot doot doot do doot.....
Octonauts is currently one of Jack's favorite shows. He likes to pretend to be Barnacles, a polar bear and captain of the crew. He shouts "I'm Barnacles" and waits for you to respond with another name of a crew member. Recently he's been crossing pretend worlds and he will be Barnacles and want me to be Sofia, or a care bear...
So naturally, for his birthday, we had an octonauts cake. With a newborn, and PopPop, Uncle Nick, and Ingrid in town, I didn't get to work on it as much as I wanted.
It's 2 tiers, each with 4 layers. The top tier was vanilla cake with strawberry filling and the bottom was chocolate, all covered in SMBC. The GUP-A, and undersea decor were made from modeling chocolate, and the action figures were plastic toys that go to his new Octopod. I let Jack help, I'm really trying to get over my perfectionism, and allow him to help me do things. It's not the way I would have arranged things, but I want him to remember the times we baked and decorated together, not me telling him what to do, or making him watch. I really do have a hard time striking a balance between perfectionism and quality time with my kids. They always want to help, and usually make things harder, take longer, and more messy, but it's all about the memories, right?
