Pink-a-licious

One of our favorite books to get from the library is Pinkalicious.  I love all of the Pinkalicious books and so do my kids.  It had been a while since we had read Pinkalicious so we checked it out from our library.

Pinkalicious is a book about a little girl who makes pink cupcakes with her mom because it was raining and it was too wet to play outside.  She loves the cupcakes and eat too many.  When she wakes up the next morning she is PINK!!!  Her mom takes her to the doctor and the doctor tells her the only way she can get better is to eat a diet of green things and no more pink.  Well Pinkalicious doesn't listen to the doctor and that night after her parents go to bed she sneaks into the kitchen and eats more pink cupcakes.  When she wakes up the next morning instead of being pink she is RED!  She hates red and so she decides to listen to the doctor and only eat things that are green.  The next day she is all better!

We have been getting A LOT of rain around here lately which means we can't go outside and play.  One day after reading the book Pinkalicious, we decided to make some pinkalicious cupcakes.  Reese and Benson were so excited and they thought for sure if they ate a bunch of cupcakes they would turn pink!

We whipped up some cupcakes before nap time and then decided to wait and frost them after naps.  These two kiddos had the hardest time waiting to frost their cupcakes.  We actually didn't end up frosting them until after dinner.  They were quite the troopers for waiting all day, but it was worth the wait.

After frosting our pink cupcakes with pink frosting, it was time to devour our pinkalicious cupcakes.  It was a major sugar overload and when Reese and Benson were done eating their cupcakes there was pink frosting and pink crumbs EVERYWHERE!   But man where those pinkalicious cupcakes divine!  When I told Benson he was turning he pink he got a little worried for just a second and then said, "no Mommy, I'm Benson".  And of course Reese had to run int the bathroom and make sure she hadn't turned pink.

I am so happy that our pinkalicious cupcakes turned out but what brings me the most joy is seeing the excitement that comes to my children's faces when we do things together that makes memories that will last a lifetime!  Being a mom is the best, trying at times, but definitely the most rewarding job I could EVER have!