Blow Out the Candles and DON'T EXPLODE!!!

For Madi's big 2-Year-Old Birthday Bash, we made a few mini-personal-sized pink cakes for the birthday girl and a smattering of delicious cake balls in strawberry on strawberry and cream cheese on red velvet style for everybody.  Each night for about a week, we presented Madi with a cake and urged/coaxed/prompted/ encouraged/begged her to muster up the courage to blow out the candles.  You see, Mommy accidentally traumatized Miss Madi with  a Jib Jab video (Madi LOVES this site and makes e-cards and videos with pictures of our family whenever she can).  In this particular hilarious and somewhat terrifying video, a puppet is singing an Opera version of "Happy Birthday."  At the end, he places a party hat on his head, blows out the candles and then EXPLODES.  After the cake detonates and the fire and smoke clears, the ashy black puppet falls over with a BANG.  Madi made the natural conclusion that if you blow out candles on a birthday cake, you will explode....thus, her reluctance.  She never did find the courage to blow out the candles on her mini pink cakes, no matter how many chances we gave her.  She'd grow pretty stiff and look quite worried when some one had to step in and do it for her.  Pretty funny.  We'll let a year of time fade her memory and cut back on the unnerving Jib Jab videos and try again at age 3!