the sleppys

January 7. We woke up and greeted Taylor with a simple “Happy Birthday.” The boys were excited about giving her her present. Ty can’t keep a secret, by the way. She wasn’t quite understanding that she needed too open her gift by unwrapping it. She got the jist of it and proceeded to play with her little pink boat and prince and frog set (the frog wears a crown and is supposed to be the Frog Prince).

Instead of home schooling, I cleaned up a little and baked Taylor’s cake. I wanted to make a pink and white heart-shaped cake… *shakes head and sighs*… After putting the peanut butter into the batter, I thought, Some chocolate frosting would be awesome with the peanut butter. So I added cocoa powder to the frosting, but it turned brown. Go figure. So no pink and white cake. But at least I still had the tools to make a heart-shaped cake. Except the square pan was 8×8, and the round pan was 9″. After 2 hours of calling friends for spare powdered sugar and carefully carving corners, I successfully coated a heart-shaped cake with chocolate frosting. Meanwhile, the birthday girl was getting her feet dirty in the backyard with her brothers.
Taylor, I hope you appreciate all of this.

That evening, a cold front came through. The sky was an dark orange as the sun was setting while the gray clouds made their southeasterly way. Under the sodium lights of the industrial complexes down the main highway, I could see the tiniest water droplets swirling around in the wind.

The paternal grandmother brought dinner from our favorite barbeque joint. She arrived before I did. Dad assembled Taylor’s gift, which came with over 200 screws and took him three hours.

The children bathed and got ready for bed. We presented the cake to Taylor and sang “Happy Birthday.” She started opening her presents from Grandma.

She got a little wooden kitchen, wooden breakfast food (toast, fried egg, butter), and stainless steel pots, pans, and cooking utensils. I love that.

Happy Birthday, Taylor! Three is a magic number.

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