Roland and Jenna have birthdays exactly 50 ½ years apart.
Roland enjoys comics. He has read DC, Marvel, Black Horse, Gold Key. He enjoys Hulk, Batman, Green Lantern, Green Hornet, He will watch programs that feature superheroes, Justice League, Dark Knight, Iron Man. His absolute favorite is Superman.
He has collected comic books, posters, George Reeve tapes, Christopher Reeves, and more recent than that. He has watched Lois & Clark, Smallville, cartoons and whatever else might be Superman related. And Jenna has watched some of his programs with him.
For her birthday this year, she decided to have a cake with Superman. Oh, really? We talked about doing a superhero themed birthday party. She had watched Justice League with Roland and was aware of Wonder Woman and decided to go as her. Now she would like ALL the superheroes on her cake and not JUST Superman.
I have yet to attend a children’s birthday party where 50% - 80% of the cake does NOT end up in the trash can. I wasn’t about to fork over an added expense for such a luxurious cake – not that Jenna doesn’t deserve it – but I could really find other ways to “waste” my money.
Roland decided that we would do cupcakes. He said that we had all the ingredients and made the cakes from scratch – but as they rose higher than anticipated, they actually turned out to be very ugly cake.
Now, in Roland’s mind, it’s all about presentation. Food has to look good – even to an eight year old. Embarrassed by the cupcake mutilation (they did lose form as we have tried to pry them out of the tins) he didn’t even bother to try to hide their deformation with frosting but went out and bought store bought cupcakes instead. 12 for our guests and a special one for Jenna.
We ended up with eight children and a sib, two moms (well three with me) and my oldest son – who took the pictures as I engaged the children in games and such. They had fun. And Biff got some really cute pictures. After Corey returns and teaches me how to insert pictures, I will share some.
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