Guess what? My birthday was a few days ago. Ordinarily I don't get too excited for my birthday. I don't hate getting older--most of the time I have to do mental calculations to remember exactly how old I am--I just feel a little uncomfortable with the amount of focus people put on me all of a sudden for one day. This is not to say I haven't enjoyed my birthdays. I've had some good times, last night included. I didn't have a party; we just met some friends for dinner. I got lots of cool Spider-Man and TMNT stuff including the new IDW Volume 1 collection of the original comics autographed by Kevin Eastman!
My wife took the theme of the night in a different, but equally nerdy direction (she threw me a TMNT party a few years ago; I'll get to it in a bit). Over the last few years she's really cultivated a love for baking and decorating things and she's gotten pretty damn good. One of my other (many) loves is Tolkien's Middle Earth. I love all of it, not just Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, but the entire world and all its lore.--
Before I start rambling about Middle Earth I'm going to stop here and promise to explore this in another post.
--My wife has read The Hobbit several times, just finished Lord of the Rings all the way through for the first time and we're both waaaay excited about the upcoming adaptation of The Hobbit. So this year, she made me a book cake. An awesome book cake that looks like it has real pages and... just look at this thing!
It's huge and awesome and, most importantly, delicious. I chose Strawberry cake without knowing what she was making, so she put a cream cheese layer. Get it? Strawberry's and Cream Cake. As in, "Do you remember the taste of strawberry's and cream, Mr. Frodo?" There are layers of meaning to this cake (as well as just regular layers).
So anyway, I drew this picture of Donatello (me) ready to blow out his candles on his birthday. I'm going off the assumption that the Turtles aren't really brothers in the genetic sense and so they celebrate different birthdays. The others aren't screaming in horror, they're singing "Happy Birthday" to him.
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My sweet Donatello cake
Ninja Turtle cupcakes made by my good friend Crystal! The TMNT heads were ring party favors.
My friend graciously let me cut the cake with the broken hilt of Narsil.
Apparently cutting cakes with a sword is a thing I do. I cut my Spider-Man groom's cake with a samurai sword.
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Here are a few pictures my mom gave me of when I was younger. Proof that I have always loved the turtles.
Me at 5 years-old. Note my coordinated outfit.
My 6th birthday cake.
6 year-old me at some school carnival thing.
Clearly they didn't have a Donatello cut out.
Happy belated birthday, sounds like it rocked! That cake is sheer awesomeness. Your wife is a talented lady!
ReplyDeleteSuper jealous about this --> "IDW Volume 1 collection of the original comics autographed by Kevin Eastman!"
Rad!
ReplyDeleteDonatello's Birthday Party!! It seems outstanding. I am so obsessed with these photos. Well, our son loves drawing so I think that in his birthday bash I must include some drawing activities for all the kids. The party will be held at a garden event space Atlanta so would like to add the canvases on which kids can draw easily.
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