Cupcakes and a sleeping princess

Today Kyle woke up before Emily from nap! Crazy! Well, Emily had decided last night that she would keep Jeff company while he worked until 5:30am! Apparently she woke up quite a few times starting at 11pm and going until 4am. She even had a midnight (2am) snack with Jeff of salami, cheese and milk which she happily told me about this morning! So needless to say, she was

tired and needed a long nap this afternoon. So while Emily was napping until 5:15, Kyle and I made good use of some overripe bananas - banana cupcakes! Kyle was a fantastic chef! He LOVES cooking and turning the "spinny fing" (mixer) on and off and lifting it up as well as measuring and pouring ingredients into the bowl. He is always a huge fan of "barfing eggies".

(Side story - a recent dinner out at Benihana's, they make the egg talk and then it barfs out the yolk. The kids saw this and called it the barfing eggie. So now whenever we crack eggies, they ask for the barfing eggie.)

Anyhow, back to cooking with Kyle. We had a lot of fun. He also loved putting the bananas into the mixer because they thumped around and got all squished. He laughed with such delight when putting them in and watching it! And what was really impressive was how he could handle scooping the batter into the cupcake tins and doing it neatly. Check out the video of him meticulously filling the cupcakes. So when we do the ingredients, I keep a hand on it so that we don't lose half of what's in the measuring cup because then I have no idea how much made it into the bowl and such, but for the batter, he really just wanted to do it by himself. And I figured why not! A mess is just a mess and can be easily cleaned up. So he went to town scooping the batter so nicely into each cupcake! Note the before and after pictures of the cupcakes. 95% of the batter made it into the cupcake tin! Go Kyle!!

And all the while, sweet Emily caught some serious and much needed zzzzz's.