Cake free birthday

I have been trying to find an alternative to birthday cakes since Hattie's big day is this week. All the suggestions I can find online are things like cupcakes or cookie cakes. Really, Internet? The whole idea is to avoid putting a ton of sugar in my girl's tiny body.

But today I have finally found some good ones! Hooray! Here they are, in case any other moms are looking for ideas.

1. Edible Arrangements. Fruit or veggie kabobs in a container that looks like a birthday cake.
2. Watermelon cupcakes. Cut out mini cakes of watermelon, serve on a platter. Put a candle in the birthday girl's "cake"!
3. Stack "Cake". Stack up something like books, clothes or boxed toys and decorate, like a diaper cake at a baby shower.
4. Box "Cake". Decorate a box with a lift-off lid. Fill it with little toys and favors for the other guests.
5. Fruit Pizza or Fruit salad
6. Meatloaf "Cake" decorated with ketchup
7. Banana or other fruit bread(I personally love strawberry bread)
8. Fruit cake. Click on the link. Its BEAUTIFUL.
9. Wholesome Baby Foods has some nice recipes if you do want a cake, but want to do it without the sugar, etc.

Snuggly Baby

Hattie is a very snuggly baby. She is by far happier when she is in physical contact with one of her parents. She has developed some really adorable falling asleep habits. We do most of our nursing in the side-lying position, as she is falling asleep. But she is getting to tall to curl up between my chest and folded legs. So lately she has been lying on her side facing me, but propping her legs up on my legs, as though I am a human foot stool. She'll sleep for hours with her legs in the air, at a 70 degree angle.

She is also all about patting me. I pat her back while she falls asleep, and sometimes she reciprocates by patting my chest(thwack! thwack! thwack!) or she hold my hand while I pat her so I'm also waving her arm around. Its very silly, very cute and very Hattie. I am having so much fun with her now that she has her own little habits and preferences.