2.16.2011

New Parents Never Do This

Millie's first birthday cake was made of whole wheat flour, wheat germ, carrots, applesauce, butter, and spices. Its only redeeming feature was a thick layer of cream cheese frosting, and it was small enough for her and her alone, because of course none of the adult guests would want to eat the thing! We had a triple-layer devil's food cake with cream filling.

No wonder she looks disappointed.



As the fifth daughter, Luci does not eat a wheat-germ cake.

She eats a kryptonite gnome, instead.




And likes it.


***To soften the concerns of mothers who give even their eight-year olds wheat germ cakes, three cheers for wheat germ! We blend it in our breakfast shakes! We stir it into muffin batter! We truly do. We no longer, however, eat wheat germ cakes.
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4 comments:

  1. Full of Grace2/18/2011 9:34 PM

    Too Funny :) Definately brings more meaning to the more children you have, the wiser we seem to become.. :) Cute Gnome Cake :)

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  2. sarah2/25/2011 11:48 AM

    I think I may have used that same recipe for Bowden's first cake- and he consumed the frosting and dubiously tasted the cake, but wouldn't eat it.
    Miles got a fatty, surgary cake. And ate it all.

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  3. Abigail2/25/2011 1:03 PM

    Sarah,

    You are a bad mother.
    Babies should not eat sugar!!!!!

    (But, really, you're a wonderful mother.)

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  4. Rebecca2/28/2011 8:24 AM

    what a cake! (though I love the clown face!)

    Three cheers for sugar, I say!

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