Where’s the cake?

Yesterday was Ted’s birthday. All he wanted was to stay home and watch his football to celebrate. Ted brought Mckayla to our room when she woke up in the morning. While laying in bed, I told Mckayla to say “Happy Birthday” to Daddy. She looked at Ted and wished him happy bithday with a big hug. Then, she turned around and asked me, “Where’s the cake?”. I have no clue where she got that from, associating birthdays and cake.
I brought home a cake on my way home from Thuy/Thai’s baby shower. When I came home, I noticed Mckayla’s cheeks were red. I touched her forehead and it was a bit warm. So I took out the thermometer to check her temperature. While I was checking her temperature, Mckayla told me “head hurt”. I wondered why she didn’t mention a word before I checked her temeprature. Her temperature was 100F, so I gave her a dose of Tylenol and a big cup of water. At dinner time, she was very cranky and had no interest in food at all. She took a few bites of the vegetable and said she was full. She rejected her favorite garlic rice and sausages. Then, she asked for some orange juice. Her Nanny usually squeezes orange juice for her when she’s sick. So I had to make some for her and good thing I just picked up a ten pound bag of oranges at the farmer’s market on Friday. She drank her juice while we were finishing up our dinner. Then, all the sudden, I heard her gagging. Before I was able to take her out of her seat, she had vomited all over herself, her booster seat (good thing we had a towel underneath the chair), and me. She started crying and told me she’s dirty and needs to take a bath. Ted took her to the bathroom while I cleaned up the mess on the dining table. Finally, an hour later, we were all nicedly clean up and ready for the brithday cake. Mckayla was very excited when she saw the cake, kept pointing at the blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries. After singing the birthday song, she blew out the candles with Ted. I gave her a small slice of the cake with lots of fruits on it. But she wasn’t too happy about it. She kept pointing at the big cake and saying she wants blueberries. I gave her a piece of the blueberries from her plate but she turned her head away and told me to eat it. Then, she continued to ask for the blueberries on the big cake. Ted picked up a piece of blueberry and gave it to her. She picked it up, examined it from every angle, then popped it in her mouth. I gave her another piece of strawberry with just tiny amount of icing on it, she rejected it and told me to eat it. That’s when we realized she wanted berries only, but not the cake. We had to wipe off all the icing and cake from the berries for her. She checked each of them closely to make sure there’s no icing or cake on it before popping them in her mouth. I guess she’s getting a bowl of fruits as her birthday cake in a few weeks.

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