Cakes and Olympic Dreams

Lainey and I made a cake today. Having "help" in the kitchen sometimes makes the job twice as long, but she needs to learn and we make some good memories in the process. I've also found it to be a good teaching tool. When we're measuring items, we are able to work on a little math as well. She saw that we needed 1/3 of a cup of milk and I asked her how much we needed and she said, "Ahm, we need 1 and a 3." Voila! A lesson in fractions! She likes to crack eggs, but as she told me today, "I'll crack the eggs, but you break them open because I don't want to get my hands all sticky." As we were getting all of our ingredients out, she saw our cocoa and asked if she could taste it. I explained to her that it wasn't sweet and wouldn't taste very good yet. A little later she asked again if she could taste it and, knowing that she'd never believe me without trying it for herself, I gave her a little taste on the end of her tongue. Words alone can't capture the face she made as she stuck out her tongue and said, "I don't like it." And now she knows!


We've been watching some of the Olympics off and on. As they came on tonight, Sarah Grace said, "Olymkicks in China! Olymkicks in China!" When the gymnastics started and one of the girls did her routine, Sarah Grace said, "The girl wins. The girl wins." She's too cute. While watching gymnastics, Lainey asked if she could do what they were doing. I told her we could check into it, but that it would mean not taking dance lessons. She said, "I'd rather be a ballerina." She then decided she could have the best of both worlds and would just run and tumble in the house. We had to put the whoas on that. We'll save the tumbling and somersaults for outside!