cake smash-major fail :(

chocolatechip06

our photos were a major fail today   DS barely touched the cake with one finger no matter how we tried to entice me.  My only DS and cake photo is with him barely touching it with his finger....the others he is just looking at the cake in disgust.

 

I am so sad over this-I really wanted the photos

 He does not like touching soft foods like tofu but I thought he would at least smush the cake once-no go

nicolita14w

We had a very similar experience. James was afraid of his cake. We had to put Cheerios on it to get him to touch the frosting.

ALY1981

i'm sorry-what a bummer

DavezWife

I've done a lot of cake smashes, they don't usally want to get into it. Most of the time I have to put it on them, and then act like an idiot getting them to laugh at themselves. It's not easy, and taking piks of your own kid is tricky, too.

If I can help edit, please let me know. I know you really wanted these to work. (I can do some head-swaps or something if you have the shots in pieces)

MonkeysGirl05

Awww... That stinks! We tested out cupcakes at home before the photo shoot, so when he saw the cupcake on picture day, he knew exactly what to do. Our at home pics turn out pretty good. Maybe you can get some good pics on your own. do.

jenber77

Aw, that's sad. Same thing happened to us last year. He mostly just cried at the cake. I have no idea why. This year he was really into the cake.

charmcitygirl

Last year, Jacob literally pushed his cupcake aside to get to his veggies!  Weird kid, I know.

Sorry your pics didn't turn out as you had hoped!  

RoxBride

We didn't attempt staged photos, but at her party she was reluctant to smash her cake.  Lucky, a 4 year old in attendance jumped at the chance to demonstrate with his own cupcake, and she took to it like a charm.

alchris

May I be blunt?  I may be an oddball, but I don't get staged cake smash photos.  They're not taken on the child's birthday, and they're not their first birthday cake!  Personally I had my camera at the ready for DD's actual cake -- it was all about the photos when the time came -- and I'm thrilled with what I got of her eating her actual birthday cake.  Hopefully you can get some of him playing with and/or eating the actual cake?  Sorry that I don't know when his actual birthday is though.  (That's a lot of "actual"s, LOL.)  I'm sorry you didn't get what you wanted, of course, Mommy.   Good luck!

chocolatechip06

We did the cake smash yesterday for his actual birthday b/c the grandparents really wanted to see him eat his first bite of cake-apparently he does like cake (which is not a bad thing right now). 

I'm not planning on giving him cake on Saturday as I don't want to deal with the mess-although given yesterday I think he would be happier with his dessert tofu or cheerios anyhow.

Mr.&MrsS

I am sorry you are upset. I understand, that is one of the things I was looking forward to as well.

I think it is common for babies not to like to touch the cake. Brady and Nolan both just cried when we brought out the cake, and they wouldnt touch it. They would eat a little bit off the spoon, but they were not about to touch it! After Nolan's party I even tried to give him a cupcake to see if he would eat it, and he threw it off the side of his high chair. Even now both my kids dont like cupcakes since you have to eat them with your hands and get messy (they do love cake off a fork though!).

I know you dont want to deal with the mess, but maybe try it again and take some more pics at home?

Million$$Baby

My kids barely touched their smash cakes either. They just didn't "get" it.  I think we should start a tradition of doing smash cakes at the 2nd birthday instead - then they'll REALLY appeciate it

Are you having a party for him? Maybe he'll be more into then.

SeaSoul

I'm sorry you're upset, but try to keep things in perspective...I bet you got some other great shots.  We didn't even do a cake smash and I still have treasured photos from his 1st bday!

jds0521

I'm sorry, hopefully you will get some good pics @ his bday party!

sasa625

Ours was a fail also... DD wouldn't touch it, so we put her hand in it which made her mad. Then she tried a tiny bit of frosting and gagged on it (she still doesn't like sweet things). We have many pictures of her crying. We got a couple of ok ones, and hoped she would do better at her party. She didn't... she got a bit on her fingers and flung it everywhere trying to get it off.

It made me feel better that only one of my friends had success with the smash cake portion of the bday party. Apparently it's not as uncommon as I thought for kids to be upset by it!