Two years ago today, little Selah Joy was born at 9:29 am. She weighed in at 6 pounds, 12 ounces, and was 19" long. Hardy had a hard time accepting the fact the new baby was a girl, but when he saw her that night at the hospital, he loved and loved on her. After he left the room and reached the far end of the hallway he yelled, "Mama, I changed my mind! I love my new baby sister!" Awww...that was so precious to me! Everyone adjusted so well to her arrival, it was amazing. I am so thankful for all the Lord has done for our family.
Selah loves butterflies, so I thought a butterfly cake would be fun. Tirzah and Acarith did a great job putting the candies all over the cake, and we really had a fun time. Since we had done the hard part the night before, all we had to do was frost and decorate it for the party which was at noon today.
Selah looked adorable in her little butterfly outfit! Complete with new birthday shoes and hairbows. Gotta love being a girl sometimes!
I thought you might want to see the rainbow-layered cake in its natural state. This is actually thee baked 9x13 cakes from a white cake mix with added orange gelatin powder to one, lime for the second, and strawberry for the third. After I split each cake in half, I stacked the three kinds with lemon frosting in between. I then put the two stacks side-by-side and cut the cake to look like a butterfly and then re-froze it. In the morning I just pulled it out and it was all ready to decorate!
One problem occurred during the decorating of the cake: Selah got into my bottle of red food coloring dye! I washed her face three times with Dawn soap (you can imagine how she felt about that!), but it would not come off. Tim saved the day by getting some "stuff" from his workshop to put on her face, and I was so relieved that worked!
We had a great party, and it's hard to explain, but Selah somehow knew that party was all about her! Gotta love that girl!
