Birthday Preparations

Dominic has already begun the most important part of preparing for any birthday - making the difficult decision of what cake you want.

Fortunately, birthday cake recipe books have many colourful pictures of delicious and tempting cakes so the time spent carefully selecting a cake is enjoyable.





For some time the cat cake looked like it was the favourite but now I'm not sure. He really likes monkeys but alas there is no monkey cake in either book I have. I may have to try to find a monkey cake on the internet to copy...

Overdue 11 month photos

It's been a while since I've posted some Dom pics, so here goes:



On Dom's 11 month birthday, he got to go to Whitcoulls and select some good pressies. (OK, his dad chose the book* but he grabbed the mushabelly monkey). He is very attached to his soft mushabelly monkey and giggles excitedly when it ooks at him.



I attempted to take several size comparison photos but Dom took off. I thought that I could at least get a sitting one if I let him pose with his monkey pal...


... but one blurry photo later, he abandoned the photo shoot and took off with the monkey.



He made a speedy getaway upstairs to the kitchen, but like a true action hero he made sure his pal went with him all the way. "No monkeys left behind."

* The book is the excellent 'the monster at the end of the book' story which is narrated by Grover and Matt says it was one of his favourite books as a kid. It is a truly awesome book and has a cool animated DVD of Grover reading the story as well. Sigh, I love Grover.