Our Children Don't Like Cake?!?!

Last year when we celebrated the boys' one year anniversary of coming home from the NICU, I made them this super special vegan carrot cake because they love carrots and I was a little nervous with everything they had been through and didn't want to give them eggs too early. There is an infamous photo - thanks to Uncle Chris' quick camera skills - which catches Luke in mid-vomit while eating my special cake. Will tolerated the cake, but they clearly were not fans. I chalked the whole thing up to the fact that they hadn't really had sweets before.

Over the course of this past year, Luke has liked bites of cinnamon rolls, Three Musketeers bars, other types of sweets, and Will most of the time will only eat fruit. So they clearly like sweet things right? I was excited to try cake again... but this time wanted a test run before their party so that we wouldn't repeat the public vomit debacle of 2008.

So fast forward to Wednesday of this week, when I ran to the grocery store on the way home from work and picked up a box of tried and true Betty Crocker "guaranteed that your kids will love it because who's kids don't like anything mass processed?" cake mix. I made cute little cupcakes and minimally iced them.

We set Luke up in his high chair and he appeared to be interested... he stuck his fingers in the icing and then stuck his fingers in his mouth. And that's when the scowling started.


Then he turned the cupcake upside down to see what was underneath it.


Then he threw the cupcake on the floor.


And then he became exasperated, inconsolable, "Mommy I have icing in my hair and all over my face and hands - yuck" Luke.


We cleaned him up and moved on to Will. Nate held him and I gave him a little sample of the icing, and he too appeared interested. So I gave him another little taste. He moved it around in his mouth a little bit, started to gag, and then threw up all of his dinner on the floor. There are no photos of Will trying cake because I was too busy running for cover!

We had a lot of cleaning up to do. And the boys won't be having cake at their party!!