1st Birthday Crabbiness!!!

By know everyone knows my feelings on birthdays.... to celebrate the heck outta them!!!  But 1st birthdays are even more special... they are ALL ABOUT MOM!  You made it through the first year mommy!!!  You rock!  So go ahead... you deserve every little thing to be just perfect, right down to those co-ordinating toothpicks in the fruit tray you elaborately carved out of a watermelon to look like the boat on the birthday napkins.   (or was that just me????)

Anyways.... this little guy had a GREAT fishy first birthday party!  The crab and octopus on top of the cake were just so plain cute you wanted to eat them right up!  Which you could... it's cake!!!  And for the birthday boy?  (Who, by the way, I am sure was even cuter than his cake)  A co-ordinating cupcake just for him!  To eat... wear... throw... Hey, it's his birthday. He gets to call the shots!

The cake itself was french vanilla with vanilla buttercream.  The number '1' on top was made out of gumpaste and the rest of the embelishments were fondant.