The joy of choosing exactly what cake you want Momma to bake with you (chocolate and stair-steps and pink frosting and rainbow candy), and helping to bake that cake and make the frosting and decorate it, and being too young to know that Momma is TERRIBLE in the kitchen and thus that the cake will look far less like the fairy-pink tiers that she imagined and more like that scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind in which Richard Dreyfuss sculpts the Devil's Tower out of mashed potatoes only pink and with M&Ms melting down it, and the joy of running sobbing to Momma that you broke your big 3 candle when you weren't supposed to be playing with it and having Momma call Daddy at work and having Daddy bring a new 3 candle with him when he gets home, and the joy of seeing your brand-new big 3 candle lit on your hideous pink cake, and the joy of having a sister help you blow it out again (twice):
(It really does look like the Devil's Tower only pink, doesn't it?)The joy of being a big girl, so big that your Momma for the first time is not haunted so much this year by memories of you in the NICU, and the joy of getting big-girl gifts, a huge stash of Land Before Time toys that Momma bought for you off of ebay and bartered for you from friends (the Anna bunting is in the works, Jenny!).
For me, though, the best gift of all--the joy of being your mother:
4 comments:
beautiful post, julie.
happy 3rd birthday sweet sydney!
Happy Birthday, Sydney!
And I've been to devil's tower...if it were made of pink icing and candy, I probably would've been even more impressed! So, I'm very impressed with your cake creations!
that is a really sweet post. it sounds like syd and carl share a birthday! may 6!
i love the cake, and i am sure the girls did too.
i didn't know the history of sydney's time in the NICU, so, i went back and read the post, and now, i can't stop crying.
did you have a hard time this year too, with all the memories flooding back? or does it fade a little?
congratulations on reaching three.
Happy birthday little cutie! Such a beautiful post.
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