Cupcake Day!

As we head out of KinderCare each night, Joe will often ask if it's a cupcake day. The inaugural Cupcake Day was the first day he peed on the potty at KinderCare; the second was when he pooped on the potty there. Naturally Joe feels that if he has peed or pooped on the potty, it is a cupcake day, and you really must admit, there is a fine logic at work there. Nevertheless, we have tried to explain (in vain it would seem) that cupcakes do not immediately flow from peeing and pooping on the potty, and nevertheless, Our Hero persists.

Certain of our Fans will know that Julie is herself a fan--an absolute staunch supporter of, firm believer in, and avid advocate of--the pick-me-up treat. And so today, since she was all in a snarl after the commute back across the river, she decided that yes, yes it was in fact a cupcake day. So she took Joe and Birdie to Yum! where Joe selected a cupcake for himself and for Clara. Though Clara is given only about a fourth of these monsters, she gets her own so Joe does not even have to contemplate sharing, as that is anathema to the whole spirit of a Cupcake Day and a pick-me-up treat. (Having said this, Julie will acknowledge that if Ted would like to share the slice of coconut cake she got, she will acquiesce. But she will not offer it up.)