Baking with Baby

my friend Brittany recently blogged about baking with her two boys, she showed pictures of her boys quietly sitting on stools, stirring their bowls of cookie dough.  When I tried to envision myself doing this with G all I saw were pictures of floor covered floors and ruined recipes.  However knowing that Brit did this with not one but two children....while 8 months pregnant gave me the courage to break out the mixer and bake with G.  This little boy loves to be in the kitchen, observing and stirring and loves to remind me (as I do him) that everything in the kitchen is "hot".  We made some gingerbread cookies together and G loved being able to be up in all the action, adding ingredients and playing with the measuring cup and bowl of flour I gave him. All in all a great time...and I'll definitely be doing it again! (despite all the flour on the floor)

checking to make sure it looks good

the master chef himself

a little careful measuring

full of flour!

I'll let you guess what my floors looked like