For the last week or two, Kenton has been pretending to have birthday parties and Christmas parties, and all of his pretend parties have cake. He's been talking about cake a lot. So we decided to make the boy some real cupcakes this morning. We usually do a lot of cooking on the weekends anyway, so we're used to the kitchen being wrecked. However, letting Kenton help added a whole new layer of mess to our usual kitchen chaos. He was so impatient while they baked, but managed to survive the nearly 20 minutes until they were done, and then ate one as soon as they were cool enough to touch. He didn't even want to wait for frosting.