Children will be Children
The Spieler children were up to no good this morning. They usually play together very nicely and so I did not hesitate to leave them to their own devices this morning while I did some cleaning upstairs. They were playing with some gift bags and pretending to have a birthday party. I heard them talking about cupcakes (I do keep an ear out especially since the great dresser incident that happened two weeks ago) but didn't think too much of it. I came downstairs to discover they had tried to make their own cupcakes for this birthday party. They got out the cupcake tin, opened a package of instant mousse mix and dumped some in each muffin spot, used food coloring to add a little color, then broke up a granola bar and put a piece in for each one. Some "cupcakes" were also decorated with Hershey's kisses. I was torn between being angry and laughing. They had worked well together and had fun and there really was no damage other than a little of the mousse mix on the floor which Brooke was already cleaning up when I came into the room. It was amazing that the food coloring was contained in the cupcake tin-- and Riley's mouth! That could have been a real disaster and the food coloring has now been moved to a very high shelf. The funniest part was when Brooke said, "The cupcakes would have turned out better but we couldn't find the eggs." Thank goodness they don't know where the eggs are kept!
The Spieler children were up to no good this morning. They usually play together very nicely and so I did not hesitate to leave them to their own devices this morning while I did some cleaning upstairs. They were playing with some gift bags and pretending to have a birthday party. I heard them talking about cupcakes (I do keep an ear out especially since the great dresser incident that happened two weeks ago) but didn't think too much of it. I came downstairs to discover they had tried to make their own cupcakes for this birthday party. They got out the cupcake tin, opened a package of instant mousse mix and dumped some in each muffin spot, used food coloring to add a little color, then broke up a granola bar and put a piece in for each one. Some "cupcakes" were also decorated with Hershey's kisses. I was torn between being angry and laughing. They had worked well together and had fun and there really was no damage other than a little of the mousse mix on the floor which Brooke was already cleaning up when I came into the room. It was amazing that the food coloring was contained in the cupcake tin-- and Riley's mouth! That could have been a real disaster and the food coloring has now been moved to a very high shelf. The funniest part was when Brooke said, "The cupcakes would have turned out better but we couldn't find the eggs." Thank goodness they don't know where the eggs are kept!
2 comments:
That's a really funny story. Unfortunately we always end up with damage with my boys go at it, so consider yourself quite lucky!
Oops -- I meant "when my boys go at it!"
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