I seriously can’t believe it but my little Master Q is 1
year old! Is it just me or does time following your second child seem to just
fly by even faster than the first? It feels like yesterday that I was wondering
how I was ever going to get through another year of breastfeeding and here I am
weaning him! It sounds so cliché but time really does seem to be sucked into some
kind of vortex after the arrival of children. Some days eight hours at work would
really drag on and although there are certainly days with the kids that can go
on forever (!) there never seems to be enough time for anything now. Which is
ironic since it’s precisely at this moment that you need more of it. More time
to sleep, more time to get the housework done, more time to play with the kids
and more time to just to sit back and absorb every moment of these little
creatures’ lives.
The year following the birth of our first, Miss M did go
quickly…eventually. To be honest I felt every minute of the first three months
of her life, the adjustment was just so taxing that I really felt every hour of
those difficult few months. Then before I knew it I was pregnant again and
counting down till the birth of Master Q. I do often feel sad that I didn’t pay
more attention during Miss M’s first year so this time around I really tried to
take in more of the little things. Watching Master Q marvel at the wheels on a toy
truck, seeing him smile as he felt the wind blow through his hair for the first
time and the way he looks at his sister with such love in his eyes. How can he
know that feeling already? All times you which you could just hold onto and
never let go.
Of course when you have days like I had preceding Master Q’s
birthday you really have to work hard to remind yourself of these wonderful
moments…
Four days before Master Q’s birthday he woke up grissly and
with a temperature. It continued for the next three days, we were up all night
trying to get his temperature down and get him back to sleep. At the same time
I had started weaning him and was also trying to plan a birthday party and a
christening! On his birthday I took a very puppy faced bubba who would not leave
my arms to the Doctor, he had tonsillitis. Then he woke on the day of his party
with a rash all over him, roseola virus. No wonder the poor little man was not
happy! He still managed to make everyone laugh whilst we sung ‘Happy Birthday’
but it was not the 1st birthday I had hoped for him. Thankfully he
won’t remember!
So onto the cake. For Miss M’s first birthday it was easy,
she loved ‘Giggle and Hoot’ so Hoot the Owl it was. For Master Q it was a
little more difficult. When he first started crawling we commented that he looked
like a wind-up toy, he would start revving and then just take off like a shot.
So this is what inspired the Robot birthday cake. I dubbed him ‘Rusty the Robot’
as I did have a little trouble with some chocolate cake crumb showing this time
around. I used
my Sugar-Free Chocolate Yoghurt Cake recipe again and also the Cream Cheese icing using dextrose. He was a simple 20cm square cake for his body and I fashioned the head, hands and feet from a 20cm round cake. I used Oreo biscuits for the arms, legs and ears and royal icing for the face and body decoration. Pretty simple but think ‘Rusty’ turned out
well in the end!
So birthday celebration over, now onto planning next week’s christening!
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