3 Flourless Chocolate Cakes,

1 Mermaid Shaped Cake (the year you insisted you were one),

1 Princess Cake (the year you insisted you were one),

1 Ballerina Cake ( the year you insisted you were one),

2 Pavlovas,

4 Melty Cakes

3 Lemon Poppy Seed Cakes

1 Tarte Normandin

1 Carrot Cake

2 Ice Cream Cakes

1 Sour Cream Apple Cake

20 birthday cakes.

I was running out to see my doctor, who is also your doctor, who is also the doctor who brought you into the world, when I realized the doctor’s office is beside the grocery store, so I grabbed the cook book that had your (latest) favourite cake recipe in it- to ensure I would not forget any ingredients.

When the doctor came in to weigh me I was looking at the cookbook with nothing on but a terribly sexy and drafty paper robe. I weighed in high, so I asked for a recount without the heavy cookbook.

What’s with the cookbook, she laughed.

It’s Charlotte’s 20th and I need to make her latest favourite cake and I don’t want to forget anything.

I was staring at the doctor, who is living proof of that number, in disbelief. It is both ridiculous and redundant to say time has flown. But it has.

Every cake has been delicious. Every moment with you as well.

Happy Birthday, my Charlotte. You are the light of my life.

xo momma.