From last weekend

We ended up celebrating Skylar's birthday the weekend after the actual date, since she was so sick with the flu and we really wanted her to be able to enjoy it. We decided at the last minute to get a small cake from the commissary, and I really wanted her to have buttercream icing, because putting whipped icing on a birthday cake, or any cake for that matter, is one of the biggest injustices in the whole wide world. So, unfortunately, the only color icing they had that was buttercream was red. Please keep that in mind and know that no, she is not bleeding profusely from the mouth.

We put Skylar in the highchair and sat the cake in front of her. At first she was like Whatever, but then she took a tiny pinch of frosting and put it in her mouth. As soon as it hit her tongue her whole hand shot out and she grabbed as much as she could hold and shoved it into her face, all the while giving me a look that blatantly said My God woman have you been holding out on me! She demolished the cake, so much so that we didn't get any, but we had some ice cream and shared a little with her. And she loved the ice cream so much that now I cannot take her on the ice cream row at the store because she sees it in the freezer case and tries to fling her little body out of the buggy at it while howling like a banshee. We also cannot eat ice cream in her presence, because she cannot share, she wants it all, and she carries on so much that it ruins the whole ice cream experience for the rest of us.

Anyway, sorry that I didn't post any cake pictures earlier, but I totally forgot about it, and tonight when I was looking for a certain picture I saw them and thought some of you might have wanted to see one. I took this picture right as the sugar was hitting her blood stream, when she was so delirious with happiness she didn't know what to do other than throw her hands over her head and scream WOOHOO CAKE!