As you may recall, BSM already had a birthday this year. And I still remain firm in my stance that 1-year-olds do not know about birthdays, and moreover, even if they did know about birthdays, their ultimate celebration would be sticking to their routine. Which is pretty much how we celebrated BSM's secular birthday. But I kind of regretted not having a cake for him. Even if he is kind of a baby.
A few days after his secular birthday, the Israeli postal service delivered a very sweet birthday card from Abba's sister (pseudonym needed). One of the lines in the card was, "...first little wish/first little cake for you to squish..." And then I was even more bummed that I skipped the cake. "Well," I thought, "I still maintain that cake for a 1-year-old is both unnecessary and unhealthy. But there is still his Hebrew birthday..."
And so I ruminated for about three weeks, and when his Hebrew birthday rolled around, we did indeed give BSM a chunk of cake with whipped cream on it. I even made a "1" with sprinkles, so you know it's a real birthday cake. No candle, though. That's getting dangerous. And Ema says the rebbetzin said something about it not being a very Jewish thing to do. And it's dangerous. We did sing "יום הולדת שמח" though. (I started singing "Happy Birthday," but Husbinator pointed out that this was his Hebrew birthday, so we switched languages accordingly. Stuck to the American tune, though, because this ceremony was for us, after all.)
Like a good little boy, BSM had a great time finger-painting with and eating the whipped cream. He did eventually realize there was cake under the whipped cream, but he had no interest in eating that. He just mushed around the whipped cream happily for about five minutes and then said, "All done," and that was that.
I feel much better, now :-)
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