One of my good friends here, Karli Johnson, is expecting her first baby in a couple weeks. I wanted to make the cake for her shower. She is a huge BYU fan so she requested a cake with the BYU “Y” on it that said “Welcome to the world little cougar.” I decided to take it a step further and make baby Cosmo to put on the cake. She came over and watched me make it. I was really impressed with my first sculpting attempt. It looked really cute.
Well Isaac is a real crawler now and into EVERYTHING. He had gotten into the fireplace and was covered in soot, so I had thrown him in the tub when I hear Benjamin say I want to eat his head. I quickly and forcefully yell “No don’t touch it. I’ll get you a graham cracker with icing in just a minute.” He comes skipping into the bathroom all excited about the graham cracker. After I got Isaac bathed and gave the big boys graham cracker sandwiches and sat down to eat my own I look over and see this
I wish I knew the exact tone I used to instill such fear in Benjamin as I told him to go to timeout, because at no other time has it been so effective. He marched himself to the corner and stayed there until I told him he could come out. While he was there I did a skin graft from Cosmo’s belly (because I didn’t have any more of the same color fondant and I had let Alexander play with the close color I had left) and rebuilt half the face.
The boys had been earning a trip to the zoo all week. When I went to get Benjamin out of timeout the first thing he said with those big sad brown eyes was, “Now I don’t get to go to the zoo do I?” He was so sad it almost made me cry. It is a good thing he is so stinking cute.
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