The Birthday Cake
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The Birthday Cake looked lovely.
Red and White, with a pretty pretty design.
The cake sat on the Table. The round table in the middle of the room
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The room looked pretty too - it was ready for the Birthday party.
There were balloons strung up, in lots of colours. And streamers swayed gently under the fan...
Oooh look, a giant Pinata too!
Mummy hid the pinata stick, to save it from me! But I know it has chocolates inside :D
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Mummy is cooking for the party. She is making hot pakoras.
And sandwiches with red and green - she made the chutney herself.
And Big bowls full of popcorn.
See, she is making popcorn strings!
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It’s my Birthday Party!!
But I am scared.
The nasty cake has a spell on it. I know.
I can see the evil glint in the eye.
Mummy thinks that is a circle with a dot.
But I can see the eye.
Why can mummy not see what I can see?
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We gather around the cake.
The candles are lit. My friends are happy.
Their faces shine with big smiles.
And I want to scream - RUN!
I blow out the candle. Mummy cuts a slice out. She is happy and wants to feed me the slice.
But I want to scream - RUN! The Cake is coming!
And then it happens!
Click! Click! Click! Click!
Four teeth Flip out of the top!
Click! Click! Click! Click!
Four teeth flip out of the bottom!
The cake has a mouth!!!
The cake wants to eat us!
RUN! I Scream!
Run, Ma Run!
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But Ma just laughs!
See, its a trick!
It is a toy cake!
Everybody is laughing and clapping!
Its a joke!
The Clattering Cake!
Ma gives out the Clattering cake toy to everybody. Now they are playing with it!
It has little feet. You wind it up and the cake goes - chomp clattter! clatter chomp!
Lots of little clatter chomp cakes!
Everybody loves it. Everybody is happy.
Except me.
Its my birthday. And they tricked me.
Its not funny. It is not nice to be tricked.
The cake was scary.
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Ma came up to me and gave me a big hug. It felt better. But not good.
Not good enough.
But then I was growing up.
It was my Birthday today.
I was bigger and better everyday.
I can take a joke. I can handle a prank.
Everybody was laughing. No one was hurt.
Everybody was happy.
I laughed too - the clattering cake was funny.
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And then we ate it up!
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The Birthday Cake looked lovely.
Red and White, with a pretty pretty design.
The cake sat on the Table. The round table in the middle of the room
---------------
The room looked pretty too - it was ready for the Birthday party.
There were balloons strung up, in lots of colours. And streamers swayed gently under the fan...
Oooh look, a giant Pinata too!
Mummy hid the pinata stick, to save it from me! But I know it has chocolates inside :D
-------------
Mummy is cooking for the party. She is making hot pakoras.
And sandwiches with red and green - she made the chutney herself.
And Big bowls full of popcorn.
See, she is making popcorn strings!
------------------
It’s my Birthday Party!!
But I am scared.
The nasty cake has a spell on it. I know.
I can see the evil glint in the eye.
Mummy thinks that is a circle with a dot.
But I can see the eye.
Why can mummy not see what I can see?
---------
We gather around the cake.
The candles are lit. My friends are happy.
Their faces shine with big smiles.
And I want to scream - RUN!
I blow out the candle. Mummy cuts a slice out. She is happy and wants to feed me the slice.
But I want to scream - RUN! The Cake is coming!
And then it happens!
Click! Click! Click! Click!
Four teeth Flip out of the top!
Click! Click! Click! Click!
Four teeth flip out of the bottom!
The cake has a mouth!!!
The cake wants to eat us!
RUN! I Scream!
Run, Ma Run!
-----
But Ma just laughs!
See, its a trick!
It is a toy cake!
Everybody is laughing and clapping!
Its a joke!
The Clattering Cake!
Ma gives out the Clattering cake toy to everybody. Now they are playing with it!
It has little feet. You wind it up and the cake goes - chomp clattter! clatter chomp!
Lots of little clatter chomp cakes!
Everybody loves it. Everybody is happy.
Except me.
Its my birthday. And they tricked me.
Its not funny. It is not nice to be tricked.
The cake was scary.
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Ma came up to me and gave me a big hug. It felt better. But not good.
Not good enough.
But then I was growing up.
It was my Birthday today.
I was bigger and better everyday.
I can take a joke. I can handle a prank.
Everybody was laughing. No one was hurt.
Everybody was happy.
I laughed too - the clattering cake was funny.
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And then we ate it up!
