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Monday, February 20, 2012

Don't Trust a 2 Year Old

FYI, don't trust a 2 year old alone with parts of your cake competition entry.  Don't get me wrong; I have a great kid.  I suppose I set myself up for this one.

Sometimes I work on my competition entry in the kitchen and leave my stuff out.  My daughter will come along as ask what it is.  She's about 2 and 3/4 years old and is used to seeing "Mommy's toys" out on the table.  She sees me working with gumpaste and asks if it's Playdough.  I explain that it's a lot like Playdough and Mommy is using it to make things.  I let her have a piece and have her squish it.  I explain the shaker has powder in it to make it not sticky.  She gets to roll the gumpaste around on my mat with powdered sugar.  I explain to her that Mommy is letting these other pieces dry so they can get hard.  I tell her not to touch those pieces and she nods, fully understanding.  I go to the bathroom and come back, then noticing one of my pieces is gone ... she is squishing it and pushing it around on the mat.  Luckily I had made 3 duplicate pieces "just in case" and she had grabbed the one that I didn't like that much.  After a brief exchange of me expressing my shock, we both got over it and moved on.  We enjoyed playing with gumpaste together.

Oh well.  At least she didn't eat it.


2 comments:

  1. When my son was 5 he used the tip of a pencil to pick the every lace point off of a lace wrap on a display cake I was working on. He did eat them. I was not happy.

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