Torches are passed and holy cow I think I'm in trouble!!!

Yesterday afternoon Ciera and I were baking cupcakes for Tienna's first birthday today and, as every child does, she asked if she could lick the beater when I was done.....so we each took one and enjoyed this age old ritual together. Suddenly it dawned on me......in a year or so I have to make a decision.......either give up on licking the beaters when I am baking as Tienna will also want one (yes I always still do this even when I am baking alone, c'mon admit it you do it too), or start baking at night!!! Hmmm....I think I will start baking at night :-)

After we ate dinner, Ciera decided she was going to feed Tienna her dessert....baby peaches, I assumed (wrongly so this time) that Ciera had offered as she also wanted to eat them (she likes to "taste" the baby food), but she fed her, had lots of laughs and she then cleaned up Ciera and the highchair too!! This is what memories and bonding are made from :-)

Then as I was cleaning up Ciera went off to play while Tienna hung in her playpen for a bit, I heard Ciera coming around the corner and this is what I saw......


yep my daughter gets some of the oddest ideas, and I have no idea where they come from....when I ask I am told "I thought of it in my brain"....ummm.....yeah ok.......for the uninitiated she is wearing the Run for the Cure t-shirt she got for coming with me on the run in 2009 (she wears it all the time even though it is an adult size small) , the knight helmet she got for Christmas and the safety goggles that came with her "work bench", and her Spiderman silly bands, she is also riding the Winnie the pooh "car" she got when she was 2 and hung on the front is her Batman mask.....I can only imagine the outfits this child will wear to school when she is 13....my tongue will be sore permanently from biting it daily!