Let him eat Cake

Cake and the Happy Birthday Song are permanent fixtures in our household during the late fall and winter months.  It seems like over half of the family has a birthday between September and January.  Needless to say, we have lots of family dinners and birthday cakes.  Xavier has just figured out the whole excitement around the Happy Birthday Song and when that gets sung that means there is cake and candles to follow.  He does not really care that much about blowing out the candles, he is just into pulling the candles out and licking the icing off the bottom. 
There are days when Xavier will ask me to sing the Happy Birthday Song and when I am done he will say, "Ok...Cake"  Obviously cake follows the song.  However, we do not always have cake, which was a very hard lesson to learn for him, it caused a few tears.
Regardless we are big fans of the birthday party and even bigger fans of the cake and candles.  Below is a lovely set of pictures from Geema's (my mom) birthday.  Geema had a wonderful pound cake with chocolate icing.  The best thing about the cake was that it did not fall apart and Xavier could just pick it up and eat it. My mom cut huge hunks of cake, so Xavier was in HEAVEN!!!  Fortunately, the bottom layer ended up falling off the hunk of cake and his nap was not sabotaged by copious amounts of sugar. 

                                                                       The first bite

                                                        Really I can eat the whole thing

                                                     Daddy where is YOUR cake

                                                        losing the bottom layer

                                          not so sure about the smaller piece...Giving in and eating...