IT'S AN ERUPTION CELEBRATION....LOGAN EVOLVES INTO 7!

Logan is 7...I have a hard time saying that these days. I said to him the other day as I was tucking him into bed, "Could you please, please, pretty please with cherries, and ice cream, and chocolate chips and whip cream on top...PLEASE just stop growing up, or at least slow down!" He grinned ear to ear and said, "But mom, I can't..I really can't you know."

He mentioned to me several months ago that he wanted a dinosaur cake for his birthday...a Jurassic scene birthday cake. He's definitely right smack in the middle of the Dinosuar phase! We visit the Dinosuar Museum at Thanksgiving point at least one a month, he watches Dino Dan and Jurassic Park movies over and over, reads books and more books about dinosaurs, has loads of plastic toys and eggs to play with, and spends countless hours coloring and creative drawing dinosaurs.

I thought it out in my head and had fun with it. I truly scored while at the dollar store 5 weeks ago when I found plastic dinosaur skeletons! I couldn't wait to make his cake. While he was at school today Silas and I went to work.
My little helper.......My little cheerleader.....THE VOLCANIC DINOSAUR CAKE:
I made 4-9" chocolate cakes using 3 different sizes of cake molds.
Frosted the cake with lots of chocolate butter cream frosting, and sprinkled crushed oreos into the sides of the volcano and around the base for rubble and pyroclast fragments. I made lava with two batches of melted white chocolate chips with butter and dyed one red and the other orange. I thought chocolate would work better than frosting for the more real look and consistency of lava. It was thicker and chunky and hardened perfectly.
I dyed a bag of coconut green with food coloring, and used it for the grass. I also made a little oasis with a lego pond toy I already had, and set up the dino scene.
My favorite part was the dino graveyard! I crushed up graham crackers for sand, and partly buried the skeletons.It was truly a simple, simple cake. 1 hour start to finish. Just a little imagination and time.Logan's face was priceless! He walked around the cake so carefully and looked at each scene. I was so happy to be able to make him feel special, after all, isn't that what Birthdays are for!
Happy Birthday buddy, I love you!