Half Birthday

I woke up today realizing that it was Everett's half birthday.  He is 2 1/2!! I can't believe it.  Anyway, I wanted to do something fun with him.  Start some little tradition.  You can still celebrate your half birthday!  I didn't want to make a cake or anything, but I wanted to make something he'd enjoy.  I had been looking through different recipes when I found one for Birthday Cake Popcorn! Yup. And since I'm on a popcorn kick I thought why not?!

WE had such a fun time mixing everything together.  Everett especially loved being able to sample everything.  He had to test the popcorn before we added anything to it.

We had to add mini M&Ms and I think this was his favorite part.  I was honestly surprised he didn't eat anything.  He thought about it, but then just poured it in!

Once he dumped then in,the M&Ms all went straight to the bottom he kept saying "MM gone, MM gone".  So I had to show them where they went.  And what did he do?  He went for them!

Then we melted the chocolate, mixed in the cake mix, and then finally the sprinkles.

Once everything was mixed together we put the popcorn on a tray and let the chocolate harden. While this was going on Everett noticed there were M&Ms that were left at the bottom of the bowl.  They of course could not be left!

We had a pretty good time.  The popcorn turned out pretty good too!  I think we just may start a new tradition of doing a little celebrating on half birthdays. Jacquelyn was of course part of our celebrating.  She was just enjoying her view from below.