Baking Cupcakes with the Birthday Girl!

According to Reagan, no birthday is complete unless you have cupcakes, so today we baked cupcakes together. And, she loved every minute of it.

I was planning on doing the letter C this week, but we took 2 weeks on the letter B, so it didn't work out. She loves to help me make stuff in the kitchen, but what's more fun than baking cupcakes? 

Of course she wanted pink cupcakes. I couldn't find strawberry mix, but I got lucky and found food coloring. I have a feeling we will be playing food coloring a lot, she thought it was so neat. She kept wanting to squeeze drops into the mix, I thought for sure her cupcakes were going to turn out red. 

She'd mix a little, taste a little.

"Lick it Mommy?"

Who says kids aren't supposed to lick the batter? I could hardly get it away from her.

And then she asked me about 100 times, "are they done yet?!"

Only to ask me 100 times, "are they cool yet?" So I went ahead and let her ice and decorate one.

Ta-da! 

They were delicious!

"Mommy, I want another one."

"Plllllllleeeeeeassseee!"

Reagan's Canvas Paintings

Again, my friend Marla, who always has great ideas and crafts on her blog, did this with her daughter Parker a while ago and I loved it. I have been wanting to let Reagan paint some canvas paintings for her room, since her walls are so bare, so we finally did it. I took a pillow from her bedding and matched, thought I matched, some colors for her. 

We started with navy. 

 Then we let that dry for the night and did orange the next day. 

It was really hard not to tell her where to paint. I wanted so bad to say, "no don't put that there, paint some over here." But I didn't, I kept quiet and just let her paint. 

Two days went by before we could start with the green. I had the paintings sitting in our living room under fans to dry, but turns out the humidity was getting to them so it wasn't drying. I moved them to our room under the AC and they dried over night.

 I was finally starting to see it coming together. I was thinking there for a while it might not turn out the way I had expected them too. But now they are starting to look like I had planned. 

She loved it. She kept asking me if it was dry yet and if she could paint some more! 

And last we added the pink. 

There they are! Reagan's very first paintings! I am a little disappointed with the way the colors turned out. The pillow I took with me had navy in it, however her bedding does not. The green is way to lime and the pink is not what I expected. Darrin keeps reminding me that Reagan does not care if they match perfectly, they are for her to see hanging in her room and to be proud of. Which he's right. It was fun for her and she loves to look at them. Once they are on her wall she will love it even more. (I still might add another color one day in hopes it helps to match a little better.) 

We are going to hang them sometime this week!