celebrating with batman and robin
Caedmon turned four a few weeks ago… I guess the second child gets a delayed birthday recap. Just a little side note on his name: Caedmon was the earliest English poet whose name is known. He was a monk that began to compose poetry and hymns after receiving a vision in a dream. Caedmon is not a common name (not even in the top 1000 names), so I often get asked how we came up with the name. I thought of his name two weeks before he was born. I thought I saw it on a hooded towel in Pottery Barn – but it was actually Cameron. There was a group that I listened to named Caedmon’s Call, so I started looking up the history of the name Caedmon – which means “Warrior Poet”. My husband and I had already narrowed down our baby name list to four and there was no room for an additional name according to my husband. However, when Caedmon was born he looked so different than we expected. He had strawberry hair and really blue eyes. I said that his name has to be Caedmon – Cade for short.
Needless to say, that now that we are about to have baby #3 my husband has revoked all of my naming rights. He is going to pick this name and I can merely make “suggestions”. We will see how that works out in 10 weeks.
For Caedmon’s fourth birthday, he wanted a Robin cake. There are many Batman cake designs out there for inspiration – in fact, last year my husband made this awesome cake http://agentorangerecords.blogspot.com/2010/04/cades-third-birthday.html
I ended up using a DC bobble head doll as inspiration. The body was made from rice krispie treats coated in buttercream and colored fondant.
For his preschool class I made Batman and Robin logo cookies. Batman won the popularity contest and we ended up with more Robin cookies leftover. 
Caedmon makes me laugh. He can be so silly. He is a clothing fanatic and loves to dress himself – he really cares about what he is wearing – which is so different from his older brother. He loves lego figures – which he calls lego guys. He is so good at working with the small pieces (he had excellent marks in his fine motor skills in his preschool class). Cade is my cuddle bug – he is always giving hugs and pats on the back and saying I love you. I melt when I look at his square-faced smile and brilliant blue eyes – and his hair is so blonde that he calls it white.
I interviewed Caedmon on a few of his favorite things on his 4th birthday and this is what he had to say:
Favorite cereal: Frosted Flakes
Favorite Vegetable: Carrot
Favorite Fruit: Watermelon
Favorite Superhero: Superman and Batman
Favorite Toy: Lego Guys
Favorite TV Show: Bob the Builder
Favorite Book: Lego Sticker books
Favorite Restaurant: Red Robin
Favorite Animal: Elephant
If you could change your name, what would it be: Amen (interesting… I guess he picked this name up when we are saying our daily prayers)
Happy birthday my 4-year old – you are growing up and making your mama mia (as he sometimes calls me) proud.
