Anyway, last month I scored some awesome clearance cake mix at a local grocer. Sprinkle filled cake with matching Christmas tree icing for only $0.95!!!??? YAAY! Needless to say I bought a box...or 8 and made the first batch of cupcakes after school. The kids of course loved it and even helped without any major catastrophes.
Fast forward to after dinner when I finally let them have a Christmas tree sprinkle covered green piece of heaven. I was cleaning up the dinner I worked so hard on (thank you hubby for making a pizza run!!) When I heard the big kids laughing behind me. I turn around to find the baby aka #4, with half a cupcake stuck to the side of her face! Although it was adorable, she was not enthused. Of course the culprit, who else but #3 himself was rather proud and when I asked him what was he doing shoving cake in his sisters face?!
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| Awesome picture of our awesome cupcakes |
He replied sweetly "it birf uh day (birthday) cake! Me give her some".
Now to explain; in our family the birthday person is subjected to a thorough icing on their special day. Being that there are roughly 30 people in our family on either side, we see a good bit of icing faces. #3 just now old enough to remember such traditions but still not old enough to understand they don't apply to ALL forms of cake was a bit confused at my shock.
"but it isn't her birthday buddy. We shouldn't put our food on other people, OK?"
Apparently is was not "OK" because #3 has managed to conspire with #1 and #2 a minimum of 6 times in the past 36 hours, 10 of which they spent in bed! Poor #4 has a slight tinge to her cheek now from all the food coloring. After my telling them the kazillionth time to "STOP getting in the cake or I'm throwing it away!" I marched into the kitchen to retrieve the cupcake container and follow through with my threat (which really means I was going to take them and hide them and eat them....)
but upon arriving to do so, my hip ornament (#4) buries her head into my chest and grunts "uh oh!"
"oh baby, mommy will let you have one."
picks up cupcake to hand to baby
Now to explain; in our family the birthday person is subjected to a thorough icing on their special day. Being that there are roughly 30 people in our family on either side, we see a good bit of icing faces. #3 just now old enough to remember such traditions but still not old enough to understand they don't apply to ALL forms of cake was a bit confused at my shock.
"but it isn't her birthday buddy. We shouldn't put our food on other people, OK?"
Apparently is was not "OK" because #3 has managed to conspire with #1 and #2 a minimum of 6 times in the past 36 hours, 10 of which they spent in bed! Poor #4 has a slight tinge to her cheek now from all the food coloring. After my telling them the kazillionth time to "STOP getting in the cake or I'm throwing it away!" I marched into the kitchen to retrieve the cupcake container and follow through with my threat (which really means I was going to take them and hide them and eat them....)
but upon arriving to do so, my hip ornament (#4) buries her head into my chest and grunts "uh oh!"
"oh baby, mommy will let you have one."
picks up cupcake to hand to baby
"uhhhh!!!" says baby and smacks the cake into the floor while turning her head into my chest.
It's safe to say that the easiest way to teach a child to hate cake is by borrowing my kids, and letting them eat cake.
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