{"id":918,"date":"2007-11-04T22:18:11","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T02:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2007\/11\/happy-ladybug-birthday-cake\/"},"modified":"2007-11-04T22:18:11","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T02:18:11","slug":"happy-ladybug-birthday-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2007\/11\/happy-ladybug-birthday-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Ladybug Birthday Cake!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie finally got her ladybug cake and her party today.  She had a blast playing with her friends &#8211; it was basically one big playgroup with pizza and cake.<\/p>\n<p><center><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/images\/cakes\/ladybug_cake.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"256\" alt=\"ladybug_cake.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nLisa and I made Carrie&#8217;s ladybug cake using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodakgallery.com\/jenny\/projects\/mya_s_lady_bug_cake\">Jenny&#8217;s instructions<\/a>.  It was funny &#8211; when I searched for pictures of ladybug cakes on google images, out of the thousands upon thousands of cake images, Carrie picked the one that a friend of mine made.  Small world, and all that.<\/p>\n<p>After a rousing game of &#8220;stick the spot on the ladybug&#8221;, during which I learned that 3-year-olds can&#8217;t reliably keep their eyes closed, we lit the candles and cut that ladybug into pieces.  Delicious ladybug pieces&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/images\/carolyn\/20071104_birthday_party.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"20071104_birthday_party.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nThis was my favorite cake so far that I&#8217;ve made for Carrie.  It was so much easier than the others, but she absolutely adored it &#8211; probably because she picked it out.  And it was fun to learn that I could bake a cake in a pyrex bowl.  It had me eyeing my Pampered Chef batter bowl&#8230;if Carrie ever requests one of those princess dress cakes &#8211; the kind with the doll stuck in the top &#8211; that batter bowl is the perfect size and shape for it!<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, I&#8217;m so tired I&#8217;m ready to fall down.  Oh, yeah, that might be because it should really be 11:30 instead of 10:30.  Drat that time change!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie finally got her ladybug cake and her party today. She had a blast playing with her friends &#8211; it was basically one big playgroup with pizza and cake. Lisa and I made Carrie&#8217;s ladybug cake using Jenny&#8217;s instructions. It<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carolyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}