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| July 21, 2011 |
First though, I'll say that she had a pretty good birthday. We ate lunch at the market where I work sometimes, and she had a surprise play-date with her best friend Carlie. The most magical thing happened though when we stopped at a cupcake shop for cupcakes.
We've watched every episode of Cupcake Wars on Netflix. Which is to say, we got a little bit addicted for a few weeks. So for her birthday I wanted to take her to a real cupcake shop. She did get distracted by the cupcakes at Kroger, and we almost bought her special birthday cupcake there, but I persuaded her to wait and get one from a real cupcake store.
Turns out it was the right decision. We got there and a photographer was doing a photo shoot. I never did ask why. But when they found out it was Coraline's birthday, and probably because she was dressed like a regular princess in a princess dress and cardboard tiara, they asked if the photographer could take some photos of her choosing a cupcake from the case. I was even asked to get in some of those, which I'm sure the photographer regretted. As photogenic as Coraline is, I'm the opposite. Thus the absence of photos of me on this here blog. I digress ...
So then the owner asked if she'd like to actually decorate some cupcakes herself! She brought out a plate of 3 cupcakes (just like round 2 of Cupcake Wars), a bag of frosting, 4 colors of sugar, sprinkle dots, and gummy bears, and she showed Coraline how to make a big frosting flower on the top of the cupcakes like a real professional cupcake baker. All the time the photographer was snapping photos and Coraline was posing her little princess butt off.
Thank you, Miss Serendipity, for taking time out of your busy schedule to drop some magic right onto Coraline's birth day! It was so much fun! The owner of the shop even boxed up Coraline's cupcakes, plus all the extra colored sugar and the rest of the bag of icing, and sent them home with us. We still bought the 2 cupcakes we'd gone in there for, of course. I ate one of the cakes Coraline decorated, and it was one of the best cupcakes I've ever eaten. You all know I prefer the cookie, but the cupcakes at Twist Cupcakery are almost as good as a cookie. I will definitely be giving them more of my business.
On to the Coralineisms.
Speaking of food
Coraline: Here. Eat some of this soup I made. Eat a big
bite. (Offers air soup.)
Me: OK. That was a huge bite.
Me: Soup of sadness? That was kind of mean, feeding me that.
Stumped
Me: (raging about something that was probably stupid) I’m really quite at the end of my rope!
Nice Save
Me: I think these new blue glasses might make me look older.
Do they?
Coraline: Yes. Yes, they do.
Me: Oh, no! I don’t want that. They really do? The last thing I need is a pair of glasses that make me look older.
Coraline: No. I mean … Oh, no. They just make you look smarter.
Me: A lot smarter?
Coraline: Oh, yes. A lot. A lot a lot.
Things I don't need to know
Coraline: Poops are brown and have little cracks in them, and
they don’t taste good. That’s how you can tell it’s poop.
Me: How do you know they don’t taste good? Did you ever
taste one? Wait. Just don’t ever taste one.
Coraline: No, but I can tell how they taste by the smell.
The smell doesn’t taste good.
Me: Noted.
Oh, ye of little faith
Coraline: Did T Rexes really eat people?
Me: No, people didn’t exist when dinosaurs were alive.
People came along something like 65 million years later, after they were long gone.
Coraline: Are you sure? How do you know?
Me: It’s a fact. I just know it’s true. Everybody knows. (Ok, that was a lie, but I simply can't explain those young earthers to her yet. Or maybe ever.)
Coraline: Does T Rex know it’s true?
Me: T Rex isn’t alive now. He can’t know.
Coraline: Then how can you be sure?
Me: Scientists.
Coraline: How do scientists know?
Me: Scientists have ways of telling how old bones are, and there are still some dinosaur bones left.
"Soup of Sadness" is my new favorite thing to say, ever!!
ReplyDeleteSo many occasions when you can say, "Here. Try some soup of sadness."
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