PKK: January Fun

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Princess Kaitlyn. She lived in a beautiful castle by an enchanted forest, a magical lake, and a fantastically fun playground.

One day, she saw a swarm of fireflies off in the distance while singing and dancing with the boisterous butterflies near dusk. Princess Kaitlyn told the butterflies that she wanted to go meet the fireflies. The butterflies told her that they lived in a special part of the forest where a mirror of silk covered the ground to reflect the light when the fireflies lit up at night. It was a special light show in the enchanted forest for the fireflies. Given the delicate nature of the silk ground covering, only animals, insects or people that can fly could visit the fireflies.



The boisterous butterflies saw how sad Princess Kaitlyn looked when they told her about the flying requirement to meet the fireflies. So, they decided to help her out. The butterflies told Princess Kaitlyn how to make a special concoction so that her nose would light up (like Rudolph) and she would grow wings to fly and meet the fireflies. She had to mix cherries in a special red elixir and mandarin oranges in a sweet syrup. Upon eating this concoction, Princess Kaitlyn would be able to fly to fireflies and swirl around in the air with them making streams of light at dusk and long into the night.

So, Princess Kaitlyn saw mommy updating this story. When I recounted it for her, she informed me that I had the story wrong and that she wanted to fly to meet the flying lion and sore through the enchanted forest with her do loop d' loops, dives and swirls in the sky. Oops...I get all these stories mixed up!

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This is a passion cake that we made from a Kids Nutritious & Healthy Cookbook for another Princess Kaitlyn's Kitchen. The ingredients were quite fun (turbinado sugar, whole wheat flour, shredded carrots and pumpkin pie spice) and it turned out to be a nice, not overly sweet, bread like cake. It had a light cream cheese icing that went on top. Pa Mark and I enjoyed it more than daddy and Kaitlyn. Granted this poor cake had to compete with Dobash cake from St. Louis, which Kaitlyn declared as her favorite.

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We invited some friends over for dinner and the girls made their own personal pizzas. They rolled out the dough, put on the sauce, added cheese and toppings. It was fun to watch them make it and enjoy eating it. The parents dined on crab cakes instead - yum!