What the HECK happened to THIS guy!?

Ugh...this is the result of a lack of time mixed with poor planning on my part. A friend of mine asked for a birthday cake for their 1 year old...I knew I was busy with putting the house back together after having a new deck put in as well as having the interior of the house painted. But I love my friends and just could not say no. OK, so I was told the kid loves the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse show. It takes a couple of days to clear the house from all of the painting debris, but I get a chance to see the show. Creating the clubhouse was a tall order given time restraints so I decide to attempt (what appears to be) the most popular character on the show, Mickey Mouse. Seems simple enough: I will use my bear cake mold because it has given me great results in the past (see the baby and the little bear cake pix on my facebook page), make some red, yellow and pink fondant and buy some black fondant. I decide on fondant instead of icing so that a 1 year old won't suck down gobs of colored icing. In this case, the parents can just peel back the fondant once it is ready to be served. For the cake we go with a vanilla pound cake with vanilla icing.
First, let me tell you how much my oven rocks! I have made cakes using this particular mold several times in the past and each time, the cake took at least one hour and sometimes even a bit longer to be fully baked. I made the same batter, which is my pound cake recipe and voila! The cake was DONE in only 45 minutes...a savings of 15-20 minutes at least...sweet! The cake cooled. I layered and frosted it, modified the nose to make it more pointy and mousy. I cut the ears off and attempted to reshape his head to make it more round. Lastly, I added two of those fat free devils' food cookies as ears and put it aside to "set". I add a second coating of my "butter cream cheese" frosting and once again, allow the cake to "set". It is at this point that everything seems to run amok and go badly...suckingly bad. After I began to add the fondant I realized this is a difficult task for this oddly shaped cake...perhaps I didn't cut it into the right shape...all I know is everywhere I looked I saw either lumps or seams...not pretty...and WHY does his nose keep falling off? And, WHY won't his arms and hands stay put? UGH! With the help of toothpicks it all works out but the end result is still this "Sponge Bob Mickey" thing that I would not sell, let alone give away to anyone...practice, practice, practice is what I must do...so back to the drawing board!!