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Birthday cake. Eleanor offers. Emily graciously accepts from Daniel Groll on Vimeo.

In case the stills from Eleanor eating chocolate cake weren”t enough for you, please enjoy the live action video of her first forays into chocolate. Know that after she finished feeding me several bites, she decided cake is better eaten by one’s own self and she polished it off. Know also that chocolate cake is a big deal in my family. My mother makes a fantastic cake which is called the chocolate cake; its deliciousness, chocolateness and sheer MacKinnon-ness imparted by the definite article. It is singularly delicious. As an only child, I have been treated to the chocolate cake on a majority of birthdays and my mother and I even made it for my wedding. We had the chocolate cake at Ellie’s party yesterday. She’s cake-savvy enough now to recognize quality and didn’t offer myself or her Granny D. a single bite but rather ungraciously accepted forkful after forkful.

Smart girl.