There’s nothing quite as sweet as a child’s very first bite
of birthday cake. (Particularly if you had health nuts for parents, so sneaking
bites of carob bars was the closest you got to sweets until you were four. Not that
I’m still bitter.) But imagine if that first bite of cake was also a child’s first
experience of solid food.
Declan Stringer from the U.K. has suffered from an
undiagnosed illness his whole life, making it impossible for him to eat solid
foods on his own. Up until recently, his mother had to liquefy all of his food
so he could eat it through a feeding tube.
But Declan has been getting healthier and healthier, gaining
the ability to eat normally just in time for his third birthday. His family was
overjoyed to watch him happily munching on a cake in the shape of castle. As
his grandmother, who baked the cake, said, “I always believed he would conquer
this. I say he's the king of the castle.”
Photo: The Telegraph
