Mama Thursday (Friday) - Week 41: The Home Stretch, and Cake

The past couple of weeks have been filled with sickness and exhaustion. Lily started running a fever and had a terrible runny/stuffy nose. She's always a little trooper, my ray of sunshine, even when she's sick. She puts on a happy face for as long as she can stand it and goes about her business of being cute and playing with toys.  The only time we really know that something is going on with her is when she gets very quiet.

We finally brought her to the doctor when the daycare lady said she was running a temp of almost 104.  She had previously peaked at around 101 but Tylenol took care of it.  Turns out she had a double ear infection.  I experienced the mother's guilt of "why didn't I take her in sooner!" and "how did I not know?" and all that.  The truth is that she never gave us any indication that her ears were bothering her.  It just looked like a bad cold.

I got sick about half a week after she did.  I ended up with a sinus infection.  So between us there was a lot of antibiotics, Kleenex, poop, and snot.  Poor Husband got to walk into a cloud of infirmity every day after work.  No wonder he got sick too.

We're all better now and I can focus on Lily's birthday party this weekend.

Can we talk about cake for a minute?  I was trying to decide what kind of cake to make and of course stumbled across a bunch of parenting sites.  Apparently people aren't supposed to make "real" cake for their babies anymore.  You're supposed to make some kind of pseudocake with carrots and no sugar and some kind of mashed banana glaze stuff instead of frosting (!).

Screw that.  You had cake on your first birthday.  I had cake on my first birthday.  Your parents and grandparents had cake on their birthdays.  We all survived and were happier for it.  Lily is getting a white cake with raspberry filling and cream cheese frosting.  It's going to be a two tier affair and the entire 6" top tier is all hers.  Sugar and all.