More Busyness

Justin wanted me to to add another "Julia-ism":
"Hey, Dad, you going be optomitrist?"

Anyway, lots has been going on at our house. Since my last post, Julia had another case of hand-foot-mouth disease. It looks like she has now had 3 of the 9 known viruses that cause those nasty little blisters-so six more rounds to go? I hope not! We had to cancel our trip to Grants Farm. During her illness, I borrowed "We Are the Laurie Berkner Band" DVD from the library. It will probably be added to our collection at some point-she was so sad about taking it back to the library, we went back and got it a second time on Monday!

The day Julia went back to day care, I started training for my summer job. The Cupcakery is now scheduled to open on Wednesday. We had a booth at a local arts/food fest the weekend of June 8-10. It gave us a good feel for how the grand opening will be! We could not keep the cupcakes on the table! I ended up working a 14 hour shift on Saturday. Much of my day was spent frosting cupcakes (I learned I can box and frost 48 cupcakes in under 10 minutes) and driving them from the Cakery to the Cupcakery booth. Everytime I arrived there was a line, and about an hour after I left they had sold out of the 2-4 boxes I had taken them (with 48 cupcakes in a box). They had to quit 2 hours early each day because they just couldn't make more! A baker quit at the Cakery so I have been working the past two weeks mixing up batter (usually in 40-pound batches), baking, leveling, and making massive amounts of buttercream. I am having the most fun I have ever had at any job in my life! I am also excited to say that I have learned to make a heart using frothed milk in the top of a latte.




We have also been enjoying some of the free activites in St. Louis. In particular, the amazing zoo, some neat parks (Julia's new favorite is the Turtle Park), and the Shakespeare festival. We got to see a western version of "Much Ado About Nothing", which is my favorite Shakespeare play. The pictures in this post are from our last trip to the zoo and Julia's adventure at the Turtle Park. Hope you all are doing well!