I’m about a month late with this, but this weekend Juliet finally got to smash a cake for her one year old celebration. I wanted to wait until a weekend where Mr. Chocolate was around since I knew if I mentioned a cake Drake would want to be in on the action, and I didn’t want to deal with 2 messy kids all by myself. I debated for a while about whether to buy a cake, or go all fancy with making and decorating one on my own (with which I have no experience whatsoever). In the end decided it would be easier to do a box mix cake with frosting since this was essentially a cake that was going to be annihilated by my kids.
I made 2 pan cakes and cut one to make the bottom layer, and then frosted it as best as my limited abilities let me. At the very end I decided to add some blueberries to make it a little more playful and fun. I normally would have done chocolate since it’s yummier and then I would have wanted to eat some too, but I felt like it might ruin the pictures so I went with plain vanilla for the cake and frosting.
After a few failed attempts to get her to stay with the cake, I let Drake come in the investigate. Juliet is fascinated with her big brother so as soon as she saw him playing with it, she moved closer. After he started to eat it and let her have a taste, she got a better idea of what to do and then dug in.
In the end I think both Drake and Juliet had a good time. Clean up wasn’t too bad — I plopped them into the tub afterwards for a nice bath. After all that delicious sugar and a fun bath, she slept for 2 hours during her nap. Glorious!
GOLD / grapefruit / 4555 posts
Beautiful job!
blogger / pomegranate / 3491 posts
Too cute. The tablecloth underneath is so smart for easy clean up.
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
So cute!
nectarine / 2771 posts
Cute overload!
blogger / persimmon / 1220 posts
Adorable!
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
So cute!!
GOLD / coconut / 8266 posts
Oh, she’s gotten so big! Adorable!
blogger / kiwi / 588 posts
So adorable! I love the tutu!
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
so cute!!
blogger / clementine / 998 posts
The towel photo is so adorable
coconut / 8079 posts
So adorable!!
grapefruit / 4923 posts
what a cutie! you did a great job.
blogger / nectarine / 2043 posts
Oh my gosh, she’s so cute! Amazing pictures!
blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts
Haven’t seen her pics in awhile, and she looks so different and grown up now!!!
pomegranate / 3225 posts
Just adorable!!!
blogger / nectarine / 2010 posts
I love the ones with both kiddos together!
cherry / 243 posts
Sweet pictures!
blogger / pomelo / 5400 posts
Cutie!
blogger / apricot / 367 posts
Happy birthday to your daughter! looks like she had fun with it
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You are a very talented photographer. I am always delighted by the photos that you post. You should really consider doing this professionally – maybe once Juliette is in school? I would love to have you take pictures of my little girl!
blogger / persimmon / 1398 posts
What fun!! You got some great smiles!
blogger / nectarine / 2687 posts
adorable photos!!
blogger / kiwi / 675 posts
oh my goodness she is just SUCH a doll. Those cheeks and hair and little smile!!!
blogger / pomegranate / 3300 posts
These are so cute. She has such a precious smile!
blogger / pear / 1563 posts
These photos turned out SO cute!