cake

tonight, having healthy "cake" she's very into feeding the cats right now. or better said, taking food from the cupboard & stacking it. and tormenting Milo by opening & shutting the lid to the dry food container 1000x a day.

she LOVES her trike. it is still just a bit too big for her...her little feet don't reach the pedals all of the way around...she seems unfazed by this & still insists riding it is something she'd like to do all day. and by riding it I mean having mom or dad push her all over the 'hood. all day.

she stays busy taking toys from one room and collecting them in another room. for the past week or so she likes to have things lined up...on the stairs, windowsill, or in the main thorough-fare of the house....

And of course, she loves her some daddy...

The obsession with cake continues. Yesterday she had to take 'cake' (plastic ice cream cone) with us out to dinner with our girlfriends Trina & Margeaux. I also had to wear a frog barrette, so that she would wear the monkey one.

She woke up from her nap today moaning 'caaaake, caaaaaake' and only wants to read "George, Cake" (aka the story in our Curious George book about his birthday party).

So what is a good mama to do? Find a recipe for Wholesome Oat Muffins, go to the store to buy ingredients, make them, and tell her she gets to have cake tonight before bed. What does sweet baby do? Eat her cake half-heartedly, and then dump the MANY crumbs onto the floor proclaiming, "all done!" At which point good mama puts sweet baby in time out. In turn, sweet baby offers an immediate "hug? hug? hug?" with a HUGE grin the entire time. Good mama talks about working hard to make sweet baby cake, and that it makes mama sad when sweet baby throws cake on the floor. Sweet baby offers hugs & laughter to the point that in order to remain a good mama (per original intentions) we had to just hug & call it a day...