Hip, Hippo-ray!!

I've been asking Carson for a few weeks to be thinking about what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday, and every time he responded, "a green hippo." I tried to bring up other suggestions that I thought would be more relevant, but he stuck to his cute, little guns. So here is the Green Hippo Cake. It was really simple and took no more than 1 1/2 hours to decorate. He was so excited about it!