Today is the big day. For one, it's Mazzy's birthday. Yep, my baby is 2 years old. I think this means I am required to retire the word "baby". SIGH.
Secondly, today is the finals for the Colossal Cake Smash Smackdown sponsored by Crumbs Bakeshop.
All month long we have been narrowing down 127 entries to ten finalists who collectively make up for Mazzy's ridiculously lame cake smash on her 1st birthday last year (see above). Unbeknownst to me, she was on the cusp of contracting a stomach virus that she proceeded to give to everyone at the party. How's that for a goodie bag?
Four of the finalists have already won a Colossal Cupcake ($42) from Crumbs Bakeshop for winning one of the four official rounds. Three of the finalists are here because they won a one-on-one round on the Mommy Shorts Facebook Fanpage. Two of the finalists are here because they are great photos but did not fit into a larger category. And the last finalist is here because he is the kid everyone determined deserved a second chance.
The winner of today's Colossal Cake Smash Finals will get an $100 Crumbs Bakeshop Gift Certificate. You can use it to buy numerous mouthwatering baked goods like their new holiday cupcakes featured below— Gingerbread, Peppermint Hot Cocoa and my personal favorite, White Hot Chocolate. Plus Crumbs makes both Christmas and Hanukkah holiday packs. If you do not live near a Crumbs, no worries. They deliver anywhere in the US.
IMPORTANT: I am also giving away a Crumbs Colossal Cupcake ($42, serves 6-8 people) and FOUR $18 Crumbs gift certificates just for commenting below; even if they don't have a kid in the contest. Details are at the end of the post.
Here are your ten contenders for "BEST OVERALL SMASH":
There you have it. Your top ten smashes. FYI- I have also labeled MJ's smash "Dexter's Kill Room". And I'm not sure what's going on in Sadie's smash but I'm almost positive that all parties are alive and well.
Time to cast your vote!
May the best smash win!
CRUMBS COLOSSAL CUPCAKE GIVEAWAY
You can win a Crumbs Colossal Cupcake ($42) or one of four $18 Crumbs gift certificates simply for following the rules and commenting below.
1) You must be a Mommy Shorts Facebook Fan to enter.
2) Take a look at Sadie's mom in her cake smash photo and fill in the blank: "This is for _________!"
Colossal will be picked at random and my FOUR FAVORITE ANSWERS will get the $18 gift cards. All winners will be announced next Friday.
Good luck!
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Congrats to Shana who won Tuesday's "WORST GIFT EVER" contest. Please contact me at myshort@mommyshorts.com to claim your photo canvas from MyPix2Canvas.com.
This is for my skinny jeans!
Now, I just want to eat cake.
This is for changing my definition of ‘blowout’!
This is for putting me through 37 hours of hell only to pop out with a cone-shaped head! (This is simply a joke – by no means am I saying that little Sadie now or has ever had an oddly shaped head. From the looks of things, she’s just perfect.)
it was close for me between zalie and maggie. but i had to go with the anger and determination of zalie in the end 🙂 ps. i really want to try one of these crumbs cakes!
You’ll love her forever, you’ll like her for always – as long as you,re living, your baby she’ll be 🙂
This is for the complete and total shredding of my who-ha.
Love that picture! So glad she shared!!
This is for that time you pooped all over me, mere seconds after your dad put you down.
This is for 8,760 hours without sleep.
This is for 56 hours of labor
This is for all my cute shoes i can no longer wear!
This is for 28 hours of non-medicated labor before an emergency c-section!!!
Just kidding, while I’m sad that my Derek didn’t get past the first round I love the other pics and the last one…totally an awesome pic just because of her mom. You go girl!!!
Happy Birthday Mazzy!!!
Picking one is really hard, and unfortunately I’m way down in South Africa, else I’d LOVE a Giant cupcake 😀 (BTW my Daughter had a way lamer (non)smash than Mazzy.
If I did enter I’d say..This is for me never being able to leave the house with only 5 min notice again.
This is for calling me Batman, when I am CLEARLY Batgirl!
I can’t win … I live in Canada … but couldn’t resist: “This is for upstaging me in every photo since you were born!”
This is for not letting me sleep for the PAST YEAR! Paybacks are a beyotch!
“This is for using my nipple as a chew toy!”
This is for the hell your’e going to give me as a teenager! Preemptive strike…
Just noticed that! Hilarious
This is for the stretch marks!
Love these pictures, but Olivia takes it for me. Poor child looks like she just died in a pile of chocolate. Hope I win, I’d love to try one of those cupcakes!
This is for daddy who now makes me do kegels while watching J.A.G. as he tracks my “snugness” progress with Excel.
This is for the episiotomy!
Happy Birthday, sweetheart!
And Congrats, parents of the sweetheart! 🙂
This is for that foot in my ribs for exactly 4 weeks, 3 days and 7.5 hours!!!
This is for what you did to my vagina you little fucker!
You have to admit that she is in the middle of pronouncing the “f” from fucker when the photo was taken.
this is for tearing my peritoneum!!
Happy Birthday to Mazzy!
Hi ladies, I am Sadie’s mom! Totally guilty of smashing her face into the cake. It was completely an accident and unintentional. The moment I realized what I did, I almost cried. It was Sadie’s birthday party and Purim, hence the costumes and drinking.
Please know I LOVE my daughter and do not make a habit of smashing her face into cake often.
You are very close! It was 24 hours of labor and then an emergency C section 🙂
I didn’t make a perfectly symmetrical icing doily for you to just LOOK at that cake.
First of all, you need to win something for the categories you came up with.
I’m dying over the “Most Life-Changing Smash” because that poor child does look permanently traumatized.
Also “Most Vindictive Smash” because, clearly Sadie’s mom is saying:
This one’s for Elmo.
Duh.
LOVE this and Mazzy will get the hang of it next year.
Probably.
(Tell her there’s an iPad inside the cake. She’ll dive in there for sure.)
XO and Happy Happy Happy day to your whole lovely family.
So cute!
This is for making your birth day 16 days after your due date!
It was tough between Olivia and Cheech – they’re all so great!
This is for destroying every nice thing I own!
This is for the 999 times you played “Fetch!” with your pacifier at 3AM!
Please, no one is judging you (at least I hope not!!) that is one of the funniest photos I have ever seen, and if I had one of myself doing that I know my husband would have posted it everywhere and literally peed himself laughing! It is sooooo funny – I am sure no-one would think you would actually smash her face into the cake (any more than I would, I don’t know, lube my daughter up with sunscreen then have her slip right out of my hands onto a ceramic floor?) but that is why it is funny! P.S. we had no costumes but lots of drinking at my first daughter’s first birthday, I mean none of our friends had kids yet and for some reason she hadn’t made friends of her own yet 😉 (yay Canada, one year maternity leave!). And we also have a video clip of a friend sitting next to her while she does the cake smash and using some – um – colourful language (as forgot was being taped). That is a nice memorable video that is now permanently in the vault! lol!
This is for the the sleepless nights and tireless days!
Purim! Not it all makes sense! That is one holiday filled with debauchery!
I think most people know you love your daughter and weren’t trying to harm her in any way. And I hope they also know that you have a good sense of humor for submitting the pic.
Happy Hanukkah!
This is for throwing up on my Exorcist style last week!
But even though the last photo is hysterical (as is the Dexter kill room!) in the end, I had to vote for Maggie, as her picture is EXACTLY how I picture myself the day I am able to visit NYC eat a Colossal cupcake … *le sigh*
This is for taking away my ability to jump on a trampoline without peeing myself!!!
This is for the time I cleaned blueberry-induced indigo poop out of our brand new carpet!
This is for biting my nipples til they bled…little brat.
lol, though I am sure she is a total sweet heart 🙂
This is for throwing my iPhone into the toilet before I had a chance to flush!
This is for all of those times you bit my nipples!
This is for the fourth degree tear!
I love crumbs cupcakes, one of my girlfriends introduced them to me during my pregnancy. We ate cupcakes together instead of drinking!
They are all great!!! Love when they are this age!
For being more adorable than me!
Look at that cake, honey! Eat the cake, baby. Come on, Sadie. Yummy! And all yours. Eat the cake, babe. Grandma’s recording. Eat up, sweetie! Eat. Eat the cake. It’s your cake. Eat. Eat it. Mommy got it special. Yummy, yum yum! Camera’s ready. Eat. Eat it. EAT IT. DON’T STOP RECORDING, MOTHER! EAT THE MOTHER LOVIN’ CAKE, SADIE!
Momma, we get you. No one thinks this is anything but funny. I’m sure Sadie is loved and happy, and dang if she hasn’t learned to love her some cake. 😉
Ha! I was 26 hours then a C… I don’t know about you, but that kinda sucked 😉
This is for saying “Dada” before “Mama!”
*snort*
Purim is an awesome birthday! Did you call her your little Hamentaschen? Rebecca was born the first night of Channukah and we called her our little “latke” for a few weeks 🙂
And also, for a chance to win a Colossal cupcake? I would TOTALLY shove my kids head into a cake for the money shot! But hey, I never pretended to be up for a Mother of the Year award 😉
Do not ever retire Baby from your vocabulary! I was 45 when my parents died and they still introduced me as their “baby” until the end. My daughter is 31 and she will always be my baby, always. Granddaughter is 8 and her mom (and I) still call her Baby and her son is 13, same thing. It was hard not to yell, Goooooo Baby!!! as he was running the bases this past spring with his long legs. 😀
Ok, at some point you do have to stop “babying” them…you know, potty train them and make them drink out of cups without sippy lids lol! 12 year olds get made fun of if they still do that….but we can always call them baby, cuz they are ours!
So how was Mazzy’s party?
I love all those babies up there. Thanks for sharing them, moms!
Geez, my lame kids wouldn’t even touch the Cake. I should have followed Sadie’s moms idea.
This is for waking up five minutes from the end of True Blood, Dexter, Boardwalk Empire, and every other show we have to watch after you go to bed. Every single time.
this is for giving me a flabby stomach
This is for the hemorrhoid.