I think there was actually physical pain involved for me.  I had to have Scott do it!  I asked Caleb several times if we could cut it.  I don’t know what else we would do with it, so it wouldn’t make sense not to cut it, but still.  I was afraid he’d see me doing and be like “STOOOP You’re killing Herbie!!!!!!”  So with his blessing, we cut Herbie’s ass end off!

For once he was actually excited about eating “birthday” cake (even though this was just a test run).

His first birthday, I made a whole smash cake just for him.  He did what babies do at their first birthday, licked a little, smeared a lot.  Plus, he was more interested in the new vehicles that came with the cake.  Imagine that.

His second birthday, he barely noticed there was a cake, even though I slaved in the kitchen baking a total of four cakes (2 flopped, I needed 1.5 cakes to complete this masterpiece).

This is all he ate:

In keeping with tradition, last year, I outdid the year before with a multi-cake suicide mission.  I was so exhausted by the time we got to the party, I could have slept through it!  There was a cake for each person there -the cakes spelled out Happy Birthday Caleb #3- I even made the letters out of melted chocolate chips.

It appears this year will be no exception to my tradition.  The way I look at it…years from now, when we’re in parent/child therapy, I can tell the therapist, I might not be a perfect mom, but damnit his birthday cakes rocked.

I think he was still a little unsure of how he felt about the cutting of the cake, but then “Mmm… icing” side won out in the end.

Comments

3 Responses to “cutting the cake”

    Amber
    January 14th, 2009 7:38 pm

    See, I learned if you set the bar low, no one will really know what you’re capable of … just kiddin’! You’re the best!

    Dianna
    January 15th, 2009 11:06 am

    Gosh, I bet there was pain. I wouldn’t be able to watch. I got a book on how to make really fancy decorated cupcakes for Christmas and it still hasn’t been used yet. I don’t think I can take that much time to decorate one single cupcake to just have someone eat it in 60 seconds! You’re much stronger than I am!

    Julie
    January 18th, 2009 10:25 am

    That is an awesome cake! You should be proud! :)

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