Elena of Avalor S2 E4

## Plot

There's a baking competition going on in the palace today. Elena is excited because Migs is coming back from a lengthy visit to Vallestrella, and he has a surprise. Doña Paloma and the royal family, minus Isabel, will judge the bakers' entries. Doña Paloma says there's no point since Lady Yolanda wins every year, and she'll win this year too. Elena tells her that a new baker is entering this year though: Armando. He entered to make his abuelita proud. She's the one who taught him how to bake. He's making a huge cake, but the frosting tastes terrible. Isabel comes in riding her newest invention, which is supposed to transport baking goods faster on a bike. She calls it the Bakery Bike. However, the pies fly off and hit Esteban in the face. He yells at her and says that the kitchen is no place for a child and her toys. Elena can see that Isabel is upset by the comment and offers to take her to her room and help her fix it. However, Isabel refuses and says that she can fix it herself. She fixes it by adding a roof and doors to the cage so the pies won't fly off. We also *finally* learn Isabel's exact age when she says she's not a child. She's 11 years, 3 months, and 2 days old. Um, yes Isabel, you are still a child if you're that young. My little brother, who was also 11 when this episode originally aired, was six months older than you! Sure, Isabel is incredibly smart and mature for her age, but still. Elena comes in and sees that she already fixed it. Then Migs returns with a female jaquin. Her name is Dulce, which is Spanish for sweet. She's Migs's mate. That's not his only surprise though. He and Dulce are going to be parents! In fact, Dulce unexpectedly has the kids right now! Specifically, she lays three eggs in Isabel's room. Migs is worried, but Dulce reassures him. She has to go look for special berries that newborn jaquins eat. They're called anoki berries. They grow all over Vallestrella but are hard to find in Avalor, so she leaves to search right away, after telling Migs that the eggs won't hatch for days. Sure enough, tempting fate leads to the eggs to start hatching. Elena offers to have a member of the staff come up to watch the eggs while Migs gets Dulce. However, Isabel offers to watch them to prove that she's grown up enough and not just a little kid. Migs agrees, saying that the eggs won't hatch for at least a day. Elena also agrees, but only if Isabel promises to come get her if anything happens. Isa tells her that nothing's going to happen. Sure enough, all of this fate tempting leads to the eggs hatching super early. It's two boys, one blue and one purple, and a girl, who's pink, obviously. Instead of getting Elena, Isabel thinks that she can watch the babies on her own. Elena, the rest of the family, and Doña Paloma judge the baking competition. Armando isn't there, since he's still working on his frosting. Mateo can relate, because he's been trying to make an enlarging potion all week, but still can't get it right, and demonstrates by shrinking an apple. The baby jaquins learn how to talk quickly, and fly. They start trashing Isabel's room. The blue one leaves to look for anoki berries. Isabel follows him, and the purple one follows her, because he thinks that she's his mami. We see many returning characters at the contest, like Carmen, Julio, and Gabe's dad Roberto. Isabel gets the purple one back at the contest and sees the blue one fly off. When Elena asks her what she's doing, she claims that she came down to get a snack. She returns the purple one to her room, which has been further trashed by the pink one. She leaves to find their brother, who is in the kitchen. She's able to catch him and get him back to her room. However, she leaves the door open, and the pink one leaves. Isabel decides to put the other two in the bike cage so she can keep an eye on them and look for their sister. However, Luna and Skylar come in and see them. They explain that baby jaquins get cranky when they're hungry, which is why they're tearing the place apart. They leave to find anoki berries for them. The pink one runs into Mateo at his workshop. He finally made an enlarging potion. However, the pink one drinks it and becomes huge. Armando finally arrives at the baking contest, with a beautiful recreation of the palace. The pink jaquin gets into the throne room where everyone is for the contest, with Mateo right behind her. Isabel arrives on her bike and sees her. She accidentally causes the bike to crash, which frees her two brothers, and they fly away outside. Elena is disappointed that Isabel didn't get her when the eggs hatched. She wanted to prove that she was grown up enough to watch them all on her own. Elena understands what it feels like to have something to prove, but Isabel isn't a grown up just yet, and should've gotten her. Now the babies are loose, and the pink one's a giant. Luna and Skylar come back. They only found one anoki berry. Isabel has an idea. They use Mateo's enlarging potion on the berry, and fly around with it on Luna and Skylar to lure the babies back to the palace. The plan works, and the babies come back to the palace to eat. Mateo gives the small apple to the pink one. She spits it out because it's not an anoki berry. However, Mateo explains that he used a reversal potion on it, and that she only needs to taste it for the potion to work. Sure enough, she returns to her normal size. Armando tastes some of the giant anoki berry and realizes that it's exactly what he needs for his frosting. Migs and Dulce finally come back with a few berries. They have to name the babies. Dulce names the pink one Estrella, which is Spanish for star, and in-universe it could be a reference to Vallestrella, which means valley star. Migs names the blue one Zoom because of how fast he is. Isabel explains to the purple one that Dulce is his mami. Dulce decides that since he likes Isabel so much, she should be the one to name him. She decides to name him Mingo. The judges taste Armando's cake, which is delicious. They name him the winner of the contest. Isabel can't lift her cart/bike up on her own, so Esteban helps her, and admits that it's a good invention. Then she plays with the babies some more. Aw!

## Review

Once again, I loved all of the returning characters, and the new ones. I can't believe that Migs is now a husband and a dad! That was fast. Maybe we'll see more of his mate and kids in future episodes. At the very least, Mingo, Zoom, and Estrella are the baby jaquins who appear in the Adventures in Vallestrella shorts, which also feature Isabel and Elena. Estrella is voiced by Gia Lopez. Her father is Mario Lopez, who will play a jaquin named Cruz in later episodes. Zoom is voiced by Maximus Riegel, whose father is Sam Riegel. Mr. Riegel is a writer, voice actor, and voice director. More specifically, he was the voice director for Sofia the First, Elena of Avalor, and *DuckTales (2017)*. He also voiced Riven in the Nick dub of Winx Club. And last but not least, Mingo is voiced by Desmond Gerber, Craig Gerber's son, who also voiced baby Esteban in season 1. Aw!