Kitchen Helper

Last night I hosted my first book club and I made cookies for treats to share. Clark was a little cranky so I thought I would have him help me make the cookies. I had him sitting in his high chair and put the bowl in front of him and would help him scoop ingredients into the bowl. He did great, but started to want to put his hands into the mixture and throw it out. I let him down and gave him a plastic bowl and spoon and put some oats in for him to pretend to mix like mommy was doing, knowing full well that the bowl would end up on the floor and the oats all over the place.

I don't think making cookies has ever been more messy or more fun!


Clark wanted to climb on top of the table and get ingredients, which I was sure would end in a bigger disaster. So I let him eat a few of the chocolate chips. He cautiously put one in his mouth, realized what it was and gave me this look like, "Wow, this is AMAZING! Why didn't you tell me about this earlier?" It was great and despite the extra clean up I had a lot of fun cooking with him and can't wait for Clark to get older so that he can really be a true helper.

Oh and my first book club meeting went great! We talked a lot despite not having a book to discuss. We are going to read The Memory Keeper's Daughter. I've read it before and liked it, and hope the other women will too.