Birthday

L4 has been a trooper this week. Underfoot, K2, and I have all been sick enough to stay in bed for three days. We visited the doctor’s office 3 times and only one appointment had been scheduled in January. Underfoot had a double ear infection; K2 had a single ear infection, and I had strep throat. It hurt so much to swallow. I went to to the doctor Monday and could swallow without any discomfort by Thursday. L4 held down the fort. He would prepare meals and do a load of laundry or two.

After our illness, we have tried to catch up with household chores and get ready for Underfoot’s birthday.

Underfoot was asked what kind of a cake he would like. He had requests in for Bob the Tomato, Lighting McQueen, Mater, Mack Truck, or a race track. He has talked about his cake for over two weeks. Little did he know we were looking into getting him a few diecast cars from the movie “Cars.” After watching various auctions on Ebay, we won a lot of 35 cars and made a race track cake. Underfoot helped make the actual cake and then I decorated it. The final touch was to put the cars on the cake before presenting it to him. When he saw the cake with the cars on it, he smiled and waved his hands and was speechless. Underfoot usually has something to say. It was a classic moment! He loved his cake.