Playing Birthday

One of Kaitlyn and William's favorite games is to play "birthday". They love to pretend it's their birthday and have a party. They always want to have a cake with balloons and presents. Well, I usually let them pretend to make a cake and if we have some balloons, I'll blow a few up. They'll sometimes get their own toys and wrap them up in paper and give them to each other. It's very cute. Well this morning, because they play this so often, I decided that we'd make our own little mini cakes together. I got out a cake mix and used my mini bread pans to let them bake their own individual little cakes. Since they love "sprinkles", I let them put some into the cake batter before we baked the cakes.

While the cakes were baking we made some frosting. Because the cakes were so small, they only baked for about 20 minutes, and they only took a few more minutes to cool. So we were able to get to work on the frosting right away. They even wanted to put candles on the cakes and sing "happy birthday".

Another fun activity we did this morning -that teaches all sorts of good stuff to little hands and little minds,- was making an owl "softie". I let Kaitlyn pick out the fabric she wanted and then let her trace and cut the pattern peices. Then I sewed it up for her really quick, and let her stuff it. Fun!! I think this little owl looks like "neopolitan ice cream". Kaitlyn has named her "Owlie".