Journey with You

After feeding Cyrus breakfast, I started baking a carrot cake for Cyrus’ birthday. I want to make a cake that is healthy and not sweet so Cyrus can have it too. Five minutes after I started I realized I didn’t have the shortening recipe A called for. Thank goodness I found recipe B and it didn’t require shortening.

After I put the cake into the oven and Cyrus to nap, I rushed to a drug store to get a birthday card and some wrapping paper. 20 minutes after I got home, my father-in-law was here. The cake was ready and smelled really good. I started getting lunch ready while DH and father-in-law played with Cyrus.

Soon my mother-in-law arrived with so many bags of gifts. We had some tuna sandwich and fruit salad I made. Then we brought out the carrot cake, sang the birthday song, and blew the candle. This was my first carrot cake and everyone gave me some compliments and Cyrus seemed to enjoy it as well.

We then opened gifts for Cyrus. He got so many toys from his grandmother and cards from granddad, grandmother, and us. He also got a bunch of nice books.

After grandparents left, we took Cyrus out for “a walk”. We let him wear a brand new pair of shoes that are gifts from my parents. This was the first time he walked in the woods. We held his hands so he wouldn’t sit down or bend down to pick up dirty stuff on the ground. After holding him for a year, it’s so nice to be able to hold his hand and walk next to each other.

After the walk, we decided to have a dinner at an Italian restaurant. He was pretty good and ate a lot of pasta. I told DH: “He is part-Italian after all.” All waitresses said he was so good at the restaurant.

As soon as we came back home, he wanted to nurse. I did and not for too long my precious birthday boy fell asleep in my arms. This day meant so much to me but it’s just like any other day to Cyrus.