On Saturday night, Andy went to the Cubs vs. Diamondbacks game while I stayed home to do projects with Max to help celebrate Andy's birthday on Sunday. I never get to do anything like this because Andy is ALWAYS home. I am not exaggerating on this. Andy has done nice things with Max for me in the past and surprised me, but I have never had the opportunity to do that because the man is ALWAYS home. I took this opportunity to have fun with Max while we got ready for birthday celebrations.
We went to the grocery store to get ingredients we needed to make daddy a cake and to make homemade Belgian waffles in the morning. While at the store Max wanted to get daddy a balloon and of course it had to be a "wire cuck" balloon...or one would call it a fire truck balloon. When we left the grocery store Max was already super excited to give daddy his balloon for his birthday. He also picked out an Ana and Elsa small balloon for daddy too.
We got home and Max made daddy a card. He was very serious about this card for daddy.
We moved onto making a cake. Now, this cake is a recipe I received from an old friend back in my days of being a Teller. Yup, that's right, I was a bank Teller many moons ago. Anyway, I made this cake for the first birthday I got to celebrate with Andy...about twelve years ago. That would be the last time I made this cake, but I thought it would be a good one because it includes M&Ms (Max's favorite) and it's pretty quick and easy to make...until you involve a two year old.
Max had the most fun smashing the M&Ms with a hammer.
After Max went to bed I got to making the dough for the Belgian waffles. I have never made these from scratch before, but I know Andy loves Belgian waffles so I decided to give it a try. I found an awesome recipe on Pinterest that I followed and it was great that I could make the dough the night before. I also made Belgian waffles for the first birthday I spent with Andy twelve years ago. However, those waffles were straight from the box, so does it really count? I don't know, but I have definitely upped my kitchen skills from twelve years ago.
In the morning Max was so excited to give daddy his balloon and eat mamma's Belgian waffles. By the way, these waffles turned out fantastic! They are so good that I plan to make them more often.
Opening presents.
Blowing the candles out of the cake for daddy.
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