Baby K turned one this month!! I still can’t believe he is one and how fast the past year has gone. But as its such a special birthday, we had such great celebrations. One of the celebrations we chose to do was the ever so famous cake smash shoot. I never had the chance to do it with the other two (to be honest, I’d never heard of it when B turned one nearly 7 years ago!) As my amazing cousin is a whizz with photography, we decided to give the shoot a try!
For any of you that don’t know, a cake smash is a photo shoot for a child’s first birthday. It involves a cake…and a one year old! You can work out the rest! Lets just say, the child is free to do as they please and will no doubt get extremely messy. It’s a fun way to celebrate as well as capture such special memories! I was really excited to do this and I knew it would be right up Baby K’s street. What more can a one year old want that a big huge chocolate cake put in front of him! To say he was pleased was an understatement!
At first, he wasn’t sure what to do. He seemed a little confused and at first didn’t touch the cake. So with a little bit of encouragement, he soon got stuck in and there was no stopping him! He surprisingly didn’t get as messy as I thought! Considering it was chocolate, I was thinking he would be covered from head to toe! He was actually quite delicate with the cake – I was expecting him to be knocking it over and throwing it everywhere! Maybe this is a sign of good things to come – a tidy child!
My cousin had some lovely props for the shoot including a gold ‘Happy Birthday’ banner with pompoms, blue balloons, a rocking horse and a wicker basket. She also used a wooden floorboard underlay which looked fab! It also made clearing up the cake off the floor a little easier. I think Baby K was a natural in front of the lens. It seemed pretty easy to get some great shots of him and he didn’t really crawl off when the cake was in front of him – I can assure you he was quite happy!
We had such fun and I am so happy I got to experience doing a cake smash shoot. I love holding on to memories – it can be so easy to forget, but having these memories captured allows us to never to let go. Especially as Baby K is my last baby!
A huge thank you to MKRea Photography for giving me these special memories and for letting Baby K have so much fun! If you want to check out Megan’s website site, click here. She is also over on instagram.
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Ahh this has made me smile 😊
Ah thanks Brooke! 🙂 🙂
These are fab photos! Happy birthday little one! xx
They’re just great I’m so pleased!
Awww those photos are so cute! And what a lovely memory to make too. I am pretty sure a cake smash is the best birthday – I want one for my next birthday so I can have a cake to myself haha.
I would love my own cake smash!!
Great pics of a very special little boy 💙
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These pictures are the cutest! Especially love the one in the basket. The cake smash shoot is so fun, love watching little ones experience something new and it’s great to have pictures to remember the whole thing.
I know, he looks so cute doing peekaboo!
Awww this is adorable – I love cake smash photos! We done one at home for H and he was the exact same, so apprehensive at first but he quickly got in about it!
Ah lovely – they are such special keepsake photoshoots!
These are some lovely photos and you’ve got some great memories from this!
They’re great! Im thinking of putting one on a canvas!
A lovely set of photos to celebrate a special day for your family. I’ll be honest I’m not keen on the cake smash idea because I worry about the mess! Thanks for linking up with #globalblogging
Ah thank you and surprisingly there wasn’t a lot of mess!
I love the idea of a cake smash! I never got around to doing one for Aoife but maybe I will with Cassius! x
You totally should he’d love it!
This is so cute ❤
Gem
Ah thank you!
What an inspired and fun idea! Great pics especially that one of the two of you #FortheLoveofBlog
Thank you very much! I love that pic too!
What wonderful memories! I love the floor underlay idea, looks so real! Lovely photos. #fortheloveofBLOG
Great memories to look back on!
Happy, chocolate-ey, Birthday to your beautiful little! Fab photos! Memories! #globalblogging xoxo
Thank you!
This is a lovely way to capture his first birthday, and you’ve got some treasured memories there. Baby K looks fairly clean and tidy in these pictures, I hope that he enjoyed covering himself in cake. Thanks for linking up at #fortheloveofBLOG. Claire x
He was quite clean considering haha!