Liz brought the Cookie Monster cake pan out of storage and showed it to Jessica. Her response was – ‘WOW!’. After Liz had the cake in the oven for a while, Jessica asked where Cookie Monster went. Liz led her over to the oven, and flipped on the light so she could see the cake baking inside. Another ‘WOW!’, followed by – “Careful Cookie Monster, it’s hot!”. Too funny.

Jessica had so much fun blowing out the candles that we re-lit them several more times for her.

As you can see, the cake turned out AMAZING. I really should quit my job and send Liz to work in a bakery. That girl can do some really cool things. I waaaay over-indulged in the cake and ice cream. 2 servings of each, along with several M&M chocolate chip cookies. I could literally feel my head starting to spin while I was still sitting at the table! Man, I haven’t had a dose of sugar like that in a long time. I was up until 12:30, my body was just buzzing.

When I came home from my ride today, there was something verrrry different. The girls got their hair cut! Wow, they sure look cute! We’d talked about it off and on, but I guess today was the day. Luckily, Liz took before and after pictures.

It’s the end of an era. Malcolm’s last Pinewood Derby was tonight. In year’s past, we’ve had fun working together on the cars and (other than a squirt or two of graphite) haven’t put much emphasis on their performance. This year was different, we’ll pulled out all the stops and bought a cool kit from the hobby store that had lots of upgrades. We ground and sanded the axles, sanded and aligned the wheels, then polished the axles to a mirror-like finish and packed the hubs with graphite. Those were some smooooth spinning wheels.

The car ran pretty well, but after all the heats only ended up being 3rd place. Not quite as good as we were hoping, but Malcolm got a trophy and was pretty happy with the result.