Jen is a mother from New Jersey who decided to try and recreate a family tradition for her son’s first birthday, but things did not quite go according to plan.
When Jen was born, her mother bought number cookie cutters to make cookies every year based on age, and they were used each year on her and her sister’s birthdays. Jen has very fond memories of her birthday cookies.
When Jen became a mother herself, she started using the same cookie cutters for her own kids’ birthdays. The photo below shows some “4” cookies that she made for her daughter’s fourth birthday.
As Jen’s eleven month-old son was recently getting ready to turn one, she decided to make some “1” cookies for him. She decided to make them on a Sunday and freeze them, figuring they would still be good on the day of her son’s party.
After Jen took the cookies out of the oven and left them out to cool, her husband JT walked in and was stunned by the way they looked.
“They looked like something else,” JT said.
Jen could not see what he was talking about.
“She gave me a defiant ‘NO! They look like ones,'” he said.
JT, however, thought they looked like something VERY different than a “1.” He snapped a photo of the cookies and posted them to social media, where they quickly went viral.
My wife made 1 cookies in preparation for my son’s 1st birthday party next month. I don’t think they look like 1s. ? pic.twitter.com/RIO8idf29o
— JT (@Jaberuski) May 29, 2017
It turns out that Twitter users everywhere agreed with JT.
— Benjamin Allbright (@AllbrightNFL) May 29, 2017
— 아이콘 ? BIGBANG (@KIMJIWONSMYOU) May 29, 2017
— Daniel (@_DHearn_) May 29, 2017
JT admitted that this was not the first time he thought this.
“When my wife made the same cookies for my daughter a few years ago, I noticed it,” he said. “I wasn’t as active in social yet, so didn’t post them from the last time.”
JT added that his wife, who he describes as “a very sweet and innocent person,” is still in denial.
“She just shakes her head and says that people are going to see what they want to see,” JT concluded.
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