Sugar (High) Baby -- Day 840

This series of photos will basically document how cake + not enough parental attention + more cake = sugar high baby. They were taken during Charles and Judy's 40th wedding anniversary party.

In the first picture you can see Anna has spotted the cake, but hasn't made her move yet. She has probably never seen such a big cake before, so she is planning her toddler attack. The top looks the best but it is high and harder to get, but the bottom is very close and accessible. Easy choice considering the length of her arms.

In the second photo you can see that people are not paying enough attention to her. Anna is moving closer; the Texas Grandparents are getting ready to eat their cake; and the scene is perfect for a 'taste'. After that someone will have to giver her a piece to pacify her. It was sometime shortly before this or after this that she plunged her hand into the frosting of the lower level.

So we ended up giving her a very large piece (exactly why is still a bit unclear), which she nicely held without spilling for a long time. In this next picture she is getting ready to eat, and it is the beginning of the sugar fueling process. Keep in mind she was already bouncing off the walls.

Well, Anna was doing such a good job holding (and eating) the cake we left her alone. You know, give her some space, let her mature a little. I'm sure she won't eat the whole thing. She just wandered around taking tiny bites and holding it perfectly. You can tell she didn't want to spill it. In the fourth picture you can see that we are not paying enough attention to her. She is just dutifully eating her cake. Don't mind me she is saying.

I must admit that there was a period in there where I took her out to watch some live music in another portion of the restaurant, and a lot of people were actually paying attention to her, but at some point it doesn't matter. Who is going to be the person to take cake away from a baby? Especially, when she is holding it so neatly. If she spills it, that is the first chance to whisk it away under the pretense of being dirty, but we had no such luck. She played by the rules.

So, the whole episode was probably about 45 minutes long and involved her slowly eating her cake, but I think this last picture says it all. The little digestive system has processed the cake and sent it to the brain. Now we have a different baby to manage, and she still has some cake left.