Jace was finished with dinner first, so he began making them. The directions said to boil 1 cup of water, and before ebullition, pour in the churro mix. I was still eating with the kids, as I usually do because I'm a slow eater, and Jace asked me, "Mom, what is 'ebullition'?" He had to repeat it a few times, as he is used to doing (I know for a fact that if my children marry a hearing impaired woman, they will be the best of patient husbands in repeating themselves!), before finally asking him to bring the instructions over so I could look at them. Sure enough, it said the word that he was trying to say. I told him to look it up. He keeps a dictionary handy, so it wasn't a big deal, only I wasn't sure if the word would even be in there. After he found it, he told me that it means, "before boiling", so he figured that meant anytime before boiling, even if the water wasn't warm yet. If I were his age, that's exactly what I would have done, too. (I remember mixing the ingredients written on the cake mix box and going to my mom asking her why it doesn't look like very much cake mix. She asked me if I added the mix, and I realized my oops.) So when I came to help him mix it, it seemed a little dry, so we kept adding a little more water (this time at "almost boiling" temperature) here and there, in efforts to make it more ready to squeeze through the cake decorating tube. But alas, if you can tell from this face...
It was really difficult to squeeze! So instead, the boys used their hands to shape the churros into their own unique shapes. Lance made a heart shaped one, Jace made some donut shapes and a fish (is someone missing their dad that's gone on a fishing trip?), and they all made lots of little balls, or donut holes :)
We played the closest we could come to Mexican music, the soundtrack from the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, "Evita", which has a little Spanish in it, even if it's based in Argentina. Hurray for reasons to celebrate! 
I love churros! How fun.
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