Cookies and Cupcakes and a Mess, Oh my!

Since it's that time of year, Emma and I have been busy baking. It's nice that now that she is three she likes to "help" me more. She is great at adding ingredients and mixing. It's great that she is so eager to help all the time. It is also funny to see yourself in someone else. I notice her coping a lot of what I do when she is playing. At least I know she's paying attention.

The first thimg we needed to make were some sugar cookies for Santa. All of my teacher friends should appreciate my Feinstien sweatshirt. It's not very flattering but I love that thing.

Emma was the taste tester. You can't feed Santa poison cookies!

Our finished products

A few days later we made some yummy chocolate cupcakes and had a little cupcake party. It started off innocently enough but soon it turned into a terrible mess.

Showing off our hard work

Yum!

Ethan didn't want to be left out.

You might remember that when Ethan turned 6 months we let him have a little cupcake. He really wasn't into it at the time. Now that Ethan is just about 8 months though, he is very into them. You can really tell in this progression of what turned into a terrible mess.

Emma FINALLY mastered the "big girl cup!"

Getting worse

Oh, no!

Who gets cupcake in their ear?

Directly into the sink

All Clean!

We are so excited for Ethan's first Christmas and Emma's 4th. This is such a magical time of year.