Hello from my couch! From between two piles of laundry! Hi! Can you see me? I’m the one with my feet up. The one who is currently not nursing nor holding an infant. The one not changing a single diaper! The one who just put in ANOTHER LOAD OF LAUNDRY.

Two children ago, I would have told you that adding a baby should NOT add more clothes to your dirty laundry. I would have told you that babies can wear the same onesie for DAYS. I would have told you the same thing one child ago.

But I definitely see an increase in dirty clothes this time around.

The difference? A four-year-old (TODAY!!) girl. Who will.not.stand for her littlest brother to wear his JAMMIES (for crying out loud) during the DAY. Ooooh, no. Her favorite part of the day, in fact, is picking out a new outfit for Baby Levi. And herself. She’ll go through one Fancy Dress, one Play Dress, and one Outside Outfit (suitable for bike riding, usually includes shorts.) in one day’s time. I could put a stop to it, but I like seeing her get all pretty as much as she does. So I just do the laundry.

But this post is not about laundry. Goodness, no. It’s about a butterfly cake. For the aforementioned four-year-old (TODAY!!) girl.

When she saw at Benjamin’s birthday that cakes came in shapes other than round and rectangular, she decided her birthday cake would be a butterfly. And she did not deviate once from that decision.

So to teh interwebz I went to find out how to make a butterfly cake.

Teh interwebz showed me cakes like this, which were easy to figure out, but aesthetically disappointing.

And it showed me cakes like this that were amazing, yet the how-to was incredibly lacking. Two nine inch pans? Really? I don’t think so…

So, after many, many minutes on the phone with Jes, we eventually decided that the person had lied to the masses and had secretly used THREE nine inch pans.

Not having three nine inch pans, I used two nine inch, one eight inch, and a half-sheet muffin pan. The third mystery pan, I cut in a yin-yang shape, and then flipped the halves until they formed the bottom wings perfectly.

Behold:

And it stayed that way for a long time while I contemplated adding a body. I was so pleased with the way it looked, I was afraid to add anything else for fear of ruining it.

But I eventually gave in, and was happy with the result:

The frosting is butter (num!). The sides I spread on with a spreader, the top I used one of the tips from my Easy Accent Decorator that I got free when I sold Pampered Chef. ::Sigh:: I miss free Pampered Chef products…

Oh, and the parts that you can’t decide if they’re neon green or yellow… they’re neon green.

Anyway, so that’s the cake!

(What I’m not telling you is that most of that cake is rendered inedible. Because I turned it “chocolate” (according to the children) when I left it in the oven a tad too long.)

But all that matters is that it’s pretty, right?!

You’ll have to wait til Monday for pictures from the actual “party”.
(I use quotes because it was just the four… er… FIVE of us. Does that constitute a real party?)