candles or cake?

I sat Nathan and Evan down with the last two pieces of Evan's birthday cake, and handed each of them a fork. Nathan dug into his, while Evan fussed incoherently about something. I say "incoherently", because I could not understand him. Nathan, however, informed me that he thought Evan wanted a candle on his cake. I wasn't sure, so I put a little one on there and lit it. Evan smiled and laughed real big before blowing it out and excitedly requesting, "do it again!" After a few blow-outs, he was satisfied. Nathan finished up his piece of cake, as Evan begged to play with the candle. "No, buddy, eat your cake," I instructed. Nope. He didn't want the cake - he just wanted the candle.