Helloooo! Sorry to keep you all dangling on the cake saga! Sorry to be such a drama queen about it all as well, but you know how it is when you're sleep deprived and want to do the very best you can, you end up cocking it up even more!
Well, the drama continued.... I decided to bash on and try and make 2 more cakes after i pulled myself together after posting to you lot.... 45 minutes later, I pulled 2 identically flat and lopsided cakeds out of the oven Dunno what the problem was (yes I did do a sneaky peek with the first batch Honey, but not with the 2nd, honest!) Think maybe my butter was too cold and it curdled the mix a teeny bit? Anyway, all is not lost I thought, I'll make a 3 tier cake (1 of them was completely unusuable as it was sooo wafer thin on one side). So went to bed, and decided to sleep on it and sort it in the morning. So i get started the next day, and I'm layering the cake up, feeling quite chuffed about it, spreading the jam and cream on the first layer etc. and I'm just about to put the next layer on top when the phone rings and I need to put it down somewhere quickly, so i see a large tupperware bowl and think Oh yes, i'll just pop it in there for a minute..... FORGETTING that I had just filled that bowl with hotwater!!!!! They don't call 'em sponge cakes for nothing.... Cue me going absolutely ballistic, while a very bemused DP watched on. I screamed into a cushion and then knocked back an ENORMOUS glass of sherry to calm me down! Bless DP, he saved the day by going out to get loads of "trimmings" to "pimp" my cake, which was indeed very lopsided (had to use the dodgy wafer thin layer that I had previously deemed unusable) but in the end, it looked very pretty. And DD loved it. Which is all that counts Have put picture of it on my profile - (it's a butterfly made out of smarties on the top BTW) The party was a great success, but very glad it's all over now. Friend's chocolate cake was perfect, but all the girls wanted my pink one
Next year, I will be buying her cake from the Women's Institute and just do the decorating myself... she'll never know
Anyway, enough about me... you lot have been in a posting frenzy over the last 2 days!
Honeyapple - poor old Dexy - sounds like he's really suffering with his skin. DD1s eczema started properly when she was about 6 months, but she did have very dry skin before that. Bath emollients like Dermol are quite good, also I used to put oats in a net and put that in the bath, it really softens the water.
Greedy - your poor kiddies with their puking - not much fun for anyone. Great news about Marcy sleeping through again - can't believe she's taking 9oz. She is gonna be huge! I am in awe at Kiki's bladder by the way!
Chooster - that's fab about Theo going for the bottle. I'm trying to get Isla to take a bottle again as well, but using formula. She's quite happy to "entertain" the teat, but only drinks abuout half an oz. Will keep persevering though, and hope to wear her down evenutally Am using those bottles that Honeyapple mentioned. They seem quite good, but haven't fooled her! I've given up with the porridge in the evening. She is still pushing most of it out with her tongue, and gets quite screamy about the whole thing, so guess she's just not ready yet. Apparently the tongue-thrust reflex disappears about the same time they learn to sit up, and as she is not sitting yet, there seems little point in putting food in, only for it to come straight back out!
Hi Firsty! Ty seems quite the computer geek
Hi Beansprout and Iampg - can't wait for some more tiddlers on this thread!
Right, going to put that picture up now. You'll have to ignore the smug "Hey I'm Jane Asher" look on my face, cos you all know that is NOT the case