Blue Bowl

Like I have said in my past posts, we spend the majority of our weekends at other kids' birthday parties. They are usually held at some kind of jumpy place or indoor swimming pool with one thing in common, they always have cake.

Salem LOVES cake. When she gets invited to a birthday, the first thing she screams is "We're gonna have CAKE!" The funny part is that she doesn't eat the cake at all, she just licks all the icing off making the uneaten cake shine like an 8 ball.

We were at our friend's 3 year old's party this weekend at, you guessed it! A jumpy place. Only this place was actually appropriately named 'Jumpy Place', I guess to avoid any confusion with the tractor parts and feed warehouse next door. The kids jumped around on the inflatables for an hour or so and then they got to consume a large volume of Capri Sun and pizza. They finished off the bash with a very impressive Thomas The Train birthday cake.

This cake was huge. It stood about a foot tall and was shaped just like a train buttered with blue and black icing. At first, I thought something had gone wrong, as I was making my way back from the potty and noticed all the kids were quiet. On further inspection, their mouths were unearthly black holes, like characters out of a zombie film. I was relieved to find that it was just the icing turning our kids into ghouls. Man, that was some blue and black icing. Gross.

The next day, Chuk took Salem over to see his family and have dinner. Salem's aunt was playing with her and having a wonderful time. She took Salem to the potty before dinner then in a few minutes exited the restroom in distress.

auntie: "Something is wrong with Salem!! Chuk! Come here!"
chuk: "What? What's wrong!"
As discretely as she could, she described that Salem had gone on the potty and she was going to help her clean up. As she was doing so, what she found in the toilet bowl was a strange shade of blue. Chuk looked into the bowl for himself and pondered for a second and then shouted, "Thomas the Train Cake! No worries! It's the blue icing!!"

He knew what they were dealing with as this sort of thing has happened before. We took Salem over to get an ice cream at Maggie Moo's. They have a 'birthday cake' ice cream flavor that is just as blue in color as the Thomas cake. I suppose that particular blue dye really should be left out of food.