cupcakes

Makenzie told me that she wanted to take cupcakes to school tomorrow for her birthday lunch treat. She specifically asked for store-bought cupcakes with the little rings in them, so I went to the two grocery stores to see how much they cost and what rings they had because I thought it was the rings that she wanted. Wrong! It was the cupcakes. Mine aren't soft enough, apparently. So Jason went to the store to buy the on-sale leftover Valentine's cupcakes. Turns out, they were on sale this morning when I was at the store, but not this afternoon when Jason went to buy them :-(
These are the cupcakes I made, thinking they would be cuter than the ones with little kid rings in them or the leftover Valentine's ones. But they were too dry for the princess birthday treat. I must admit that I might need to find a new vanilla cake recipe because these were dryer than cupcakes made from a cake mix.
We went to the parent-teacher meeting for Seth this afternoon. His teacher said that she really likes Seth and that he is a super-cute kid. He's not exactly cooperating for his teachers in the educational requests, but he is cooperating in following directions such as "let's go use the restroom," "it's time to put on your snow clothes for recess," "walk nicely down the hall in a line," and "please come over to the circle with the rest of the class." He's not usually being mean to anyone (except when people invade his space; but even then, he's often yelling at them instead of trying to beat them up -- this is GOOD because Luke has taught him to be too physical). He knows his letters very well, but won't or can't write them at all. He does hold a pencil correctly, which really impressed his teacher. He is probably at the top of his class if regular "grades" were to be given, but it's REALLY hard to get him to do any kind of school work. His teacher commented that it's pretty noisy in their classroom, so maybe it's hard for Seth to concentrate with all the distractions. We're going to try using his basketball headphones in school and see if that helps him at all. Overall, he's doing pretty well and everyone is glad to be with Seth each day. I can't ask for much more than that right now.

Seth loves these play glasses (although he refuses to wear his real glasses at home). He was watching movies while Dad took a little snooze.