cupcakes galore

I'll just preface this by admitting that Ben has had more cupcakes in the two weeks leading up to his birthday than in the rest of his life combined.

First there were the "practice cupcakes" at Grandma's house that his cupcakedar (that's radar for cupcakes) picked up from across the room, inside a container.


Then there was the cupcake-baking project at home before his classroom birthday party. He had a blast dumping in the mix and then placing the cupcake cups in the muffin tin. However I then made the unforgivable mistake of pouring the batter into the cups!

Let me just tell you, the icing hit the fan.

Ben: "Nooooo! Duptakes!"

Me: "But Ben, these ARE cupcakes. They just have to cook first!"

Ben: "Nooooo!" (frantically trying to scoop batter out with his spoon)

It continued on like this for a while, as I tried to explain the solidification of liquids and rising properties of yeast to an almost two-year old. ...Which is pretty much my comprehension level of both anyway, but it still didn't bridge the gap.

After cooling down with a visit to the front door, a naked time-out in his room and then finally a bath, Ben was happy to discover that real cupcakes had taken the place of that mess Mommy made.

Somehow the little squirt even got to test them out. There's my iron-fisted parenting, for you!

The cupcake taste-tester gave them high marks.

Final product!
(This part was done after my assistant had clocked out for the night.)

Icing cupcakes at 10:30 at night for my son's school party was definitely one of those "I'm a mom" moments, by the way.

It paid off the next day as I met the "Little Bears" as they woke up from their naps for Ben's Mickey Mouse party!
I thought I had bought Mickey Mouse ears for everyone, but was short a couple of ears. So in fairness, only the birthday boy got to wear them.
(let me know if you're in the market for 7 mouse ears)

Dig in kiddos!

Sylvia and her icing lipstick

Adrienne enjoyed hers as well!

Ben was very excited about his "pahty pates" and had wanted to eat off them for the last week.

So dinner that evening was served on Mickey, as well as the remainder of the weekend meals, even at Moe's.

More birthday hoopla, and cupcakes, to come!