CUPCAPES!! (and colors)

Caleb really likes cupcakes...or as he calls them, "cupcapes" - LOL.  I don't want to correct him because the way he says it is just too cute!  Actually, he doesn't just say it in a normal voice (well, nothing he says is in a normal voice), he yells very excitedly "CUPCAPES!!"  And it's not just the eating of cupcakes that he likes - he likes to point them out whenever he sees them or even just pictures of them.  Aubrey has quite a few little outfits that have cupcakes on them, so he is quick to let us know when she's wearing them!

I thought it would be fun to have him help me bake some cupcakes, so we did that one morning while Aubrey was sleeping.  I let him put in the liners and he loved that.  I was going to let him help pour the mix into the mixer bowl, but he is afraid of "Mama's mix-aaaa!" so he wouldn't go near it.  He didn't even want to watch it mix around, so pretty much all he did was put in the liners.  I think he still had fun, though!  And then once they were ready to eat, I iced one for him and then gave him a bowl of sprinkles and let him decorate his own cupcake.  I thought he'd just devour the cupcake, but he was actually more interested in putting on the sprinkles one by one, so that kept him occupied for a while. 

We even worked on colors using the sprinkles!  He knows all of the main colors now (for probably almost 2 months now, he's had them down)....red, blue, green, yellow, orange (sometimes known as "Home Depot"), purple, pink, brown, black, white, and sometimes gray.  As he put a sprinkle on, I would ask him what color it was or ask him to find a certain color sprinkle.  Then we lined the sprinkles up on a plate and went down the line naming them.  I wasn't really planning on doing this, but it turned out to be a good little learning time as well as fun time!

(this was on 11/3)