Comments on: half-birthday cake surprise

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:43:38 +0000

Haha! I think I still have the Happy Birthday banner that you added the 1/2 to! That 1/2 is probably still around though – I don’t throw much away……

I like the picture of Annalie dancing around.:)

By: Kuky

Kuky — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:55:56 +0000

How am I behind again?! I thought, finally one blog I’m all caught up with. But this post is old!!! How did I lose two days?!

I must be low on sleep or something. That would explain why I saw the half cake and totally didn’t get that it was a half cake until I read that it was. Alan, on the other hand, saw the picture and said, “oh look, a half cake.”

Happy belated half birthday Annalie!

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:17:13 +0000

It was my half birthday same day but I forgot. Shame, it is a very good reason to have cake. Great looking cake too (with only half the calories of ordinary cake.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:54:45 +0000

I hear ya sister! I think 5.5 is one of those not a big girl, not a baby moments and it’s tough for our kiddos to sort those feelings out. I love the half birthday cake :)

Hang in there. If you ever need to vent I’m always around. Sometimes my girls get me so riled up and they don’t even have clue that they did it! haha

By: Leta

Leta — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:40:56 +0000

What a super fun idea! That cake looks really yummy, too.

By: Helena

Helena — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:32:14 +0000

I’ve always celebrated Kyra’s half-birthday and we almost celebrate it the same way with a half cake. However, we also call her half-birthday her Book Birthday. I personally think that an entire year is awfully long for a child to wait for a special day that is all about them, so I like the idea of the half-birthday. Kyra almost gets more excited about her Book Birthday than her real one because she knows that she will get half a cake and also a book gift, and she knows that I always choose a special book. I picked up a leather bound Alice in Wonderland for her last year when she was 12 1/2. Over the years I purchased The Wind In The Willows, The Wizard of Oz, etc. Happy half-birthday to Annalie!

Book birthday! What a fantastic idea.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:52:18 +0000

brilliant cake, such a good idea to celebrate half birthdays, i had never heard of that before now…

By: kj @ Where my boys at?

kj @ Where my boys at? — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:42:13 +0000

That’s awesome! What a great mommy you are. :)
(will you share your lemon cake recipe?) (please?)

It’s just the lemon cake from the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook, with a couple teaspoons of lemon zest stirred in.

By: Bekah

Bekah — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:11:03 +0000

I’m so glad you posted this in time for me to use your half-birthday half-cake celebration idea for christa’s half-birthday next week! Thanks :)

By: Allyson/@HBMomof2

Allyson/@HBMomof2 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:03:03 +0000

Love the half birthday celebration. My kids would love this, well, this and any other reason to eat cake!

I understand about the 5 1/2 thing too. My little girl just turned 6 and seems to have grown up overnight. She still has the testing boundaries thing, but I feel like I can tell her the why to everything and she understands it right now. That wasn’t the case 6 months ago. I hate(d) being the constant disciplinarian instead of “fun mom,” but at the time it was a necessary evil. I really don’t want my kid to turn out like some of the kids I see around who act like they are entitled to whatever they want. A friend of ours, who is older and wiser and has teenagers, told us recently that it is always something. They aren’t sleeping, they are potty training, learning to read, learning to drive, etc. I just wanted to pass on that I have been there and there is a silver lining: She isn’t driving, she isn’t dating, and this will end. Good luck…to you and to us all!

True! As a friend of mine always says about her kids and whatever they’re going through, This is only a season. There’s always something better—or worse!—down the road. It’s nice to hear that your daughter seems to be more open to reasoning now that she’s 6, so there’s hope for us.