Kylee turned 13 so Matt decided to do a cake based on a Caldwell family joke from his childhood. When he was 10 his family lived in Seoul, Korea in a military neighborhood with a playground between the apartment buildings. He and his siblings would talk about the mean older teenagers on the playground, which his 4 year-old brother, Ben, would hear. One day his mother came downstairs to find Benjamin huddled on top of the kitchen table crying. When she asked him what was the matter, he sobbed, "There's a TEENAGER under the table!" In his mind a "teenager" was some kind of monster.
Kylee was about to become one of these monsters, so he decided to make a "teenager under the table". As Kylee tried to figure out what the cake was, she was initially offended thinking she was being called a monster. But when she figured it out she was pretty happy with it. We celebrated with the cousins and our friends the Speirs who live up the street happened to stop by just in time to sing happy birthday to Kylee.
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