What the girl wants, the girl gets

Today was Olivia's last day of vacation before summer session. She stayed home with Daddy and generally insisted that they go nowhere and watch loads of t.v. He did, however, convince her that it would be a good idea to make cupcakes. And when is it not a good idea, really? She immediately specified yellow cake with chocolate frosting and cherries on top. These little jewel-like goodies were the result.

I didn't realize until just now that there is something vaguely sexual about them. We paraded around our neighborhood with the platter of them and delivered one to each of our neighbors. We have good neighbors. We weren't too worried about giving away all our cupcakes because we knew we had the matching cake waiting for us at home.

I bet you might be able to guess by now that my daughter has a semi-permanent ring of chocolate around her mouth most days?
Olivia claimed it was my birthday cake and she set to work drawing up some elaborate birthday cards for me. She even went to the trouble of making sure all of my friends "signed" the card by having Daddy write everyone's name for her. The list she gave him was surprisingly comprehensive. She hit all the grandmas, grandpas and even some of my older friends who hadn't visited in some time.

Finally, for those who have expressed concern over the spider bite, I may have panicked just a little bit. The bite isn't sore or painful anymore and it seems to be fading and moving on into healing mode.