October 30, 2006

Chaotic Cupcakes

I volunteered to make cupcakes for Big I’s Halloween party at school. (It’s the Mom guilt. I can’t go to the party with Lil C and I don’t have a sitter.) Because I’m a perfectionist over-achiever, I had to do something super cool. No ordinary cupcakes would do. So, I found an idea for jack-o-lantern cupcakes and went to town.

Lil C is quite content playing in her port-a-crib, so she hung out in there while I put orange icing on the cupcakes. Then I heard Big I cracking up laughing. "What’s so funny?" I called to her. "Lil C is undressing herself," she laughed. She could barely talk she was laughing so hard. I walked over to the crib and there’s Lil C without her little jeans, with her zip up sweatshirt off, and her tank top pulled up and over her head, bunched behind her neck holding her in a full nelson. She spent the entire afternoon wearing only a diaper and protesting loudly if I tried to redress her.

When she was sick of her crib, I brought her into the kitchen while Big I and I cut green leaves candies into pumpkin stems and arranged chocolate chips into jack-o-lantern faces. In the time it took to finish the cupcakes for school, Lil C:

pulled all of my Tupperware out of the cabinet
pulled all of the snacks out of the cabinet including a bag of pretzels that she emptied completely onto the floor
removed every single school paper that Big I has ever brought home from school from Big I’s folder and spread them out around her in the kitchen
removed each and every letter magnet that she has and threw those on the floor as well
tried to remove my cleaning products from another cabinet
pulled out pots and pans and threw those on the floor as well

When she went towards the pantry closet, I decided that decorating the extra cupcakes for us was going to have to wait until later. I sort of attempted to tidy up the kitchen before acting class, but gave up because dressing the squirming naked baby took quite a bit of time.

When we all arrived home tonight, Mr. BBM was greeted with the kitchen from hell and leftovers. After dinner, I finished decorating our cupcakes and was directed by Big I to make them "creepy." I did my best. I know my skeletons look like they have some irritable bowel issues, but I only had one kind of icing and Big I was still thrilled despite the poopy-pants skeletons.

I think I have to change my blog name to "Black Belt Betty Crocker".

Be sure to check back for costume pictures tomorrow!

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