baking and shopping

Last week Kinley and I had our first baking lesson. In the spring I found this great set of 100 cookie cutters on the clearance aisle. She has played with them in play-dough, but I decided we would try making Christmas sugar cookies.

 

She had the best time making snowmen, Christmas trees, and candy canes.  She really wanted to squish the dough rather than make cookies, but it was a fun time for both of us. I look forward to future baking sessions with this sweet girl. My mom is a great baker and also let me help her in the kitchen. That's something I want to pass down to my children.

Kinley is really into Veggie Tales and almost every activity she does involves one of the characters, singing the song, etc. In the video you'll see what I mean.

In this video she turns her head and pretends to eat a cookie. Just before I took this video I went to get my camera. When I came back she had a mouth full of cookie dough so big both cheeks were puffed out! It was so funny because she got a little embarrassed and was making a face like, "I'm about to get in trouble." But I love to eat raw cookie dough as much as the next person, so I let her indulge as well. I know it has raw eggs, but I'm certain she's eaten worse!

I wish I had taken a picture of our final product. Our cookies looked so terrible...you could not make out one single shape, but it didn't keep us from eating them :)

Mimi came for a visit this week, so I was able to get some shopping done.  All three of us spent a day at the mall and had the best time. Kinley was the best she has ever been while shopping. Not sure exactly why, but it could have been the merry-go-round rewards. She got to ride it 3 times during our shopping adventure and LOVED it! These were taken with my phone so the quality isn't great.

She's still talking about the merry-go-round asks about everyday if we will ride the merry go round today!