"So what kind would you like for your bday??"

Famous last words. 

So my 8 year old niece was having a family birthday party. So how is a family birthday party any different from any other party you might ask? Well basically it comes down to the fact that Emma is a genius!  Her birthday is July 18th and last year she realized that a lot of her friends couldn't come to her party because they were out of town on vacation. So this year she made sure to take advantage of her classmates still being around and had her bday party a month earlier in June while they were still in school.  So that was her "friend" birthday party.  However, you still need to celebrate on your actual birthday, so she decided that her real bday would be celebrated with family. Genius right? 

Well, for the family birthday party she asked me (2 days prior to her actual bday) to make cake pops. I'm thinking, "No biggie. I'll have enough time, plus it's only for 12 people tops." So I said, "So what kind of cake pops would you like for your bday Emma?" At this point you're probably thinking, vanilla, chocolate, strawberry....something like that right? Well here is how Emma interpreted my question, "Uhhmmmm. How about monkeys? I'm not sure if I want girl monkeys or boys monkeys though. Maybe both. Maybe the boy monkeys can be regular and the girl monkeys can like have a bow in their hair." Oh Crap! I had to do some research on how in the world I was going to make these and what they should look like.  I decided on a version of these two pictures. 


I used cheerios for their ears and then used a toothpick and lots of patience to paint in their faces. For the girl monkeys I drew little flower designs with a hot pink candy writer pen on parchment paper, waited for them to dry, and then stuck them on their cute little heads. What do you think?