No sooner do we celebrate turning 4 years old do we shift our attention to celebrating Christmas and all the fun stuff that comes with it, like baking Christmas cookies! I like to bake desserts - cookies, cakes, brownies, fudge you name it - and having the twins helping bake goodies with me gives a whole new meaning to baking during the holidays. Toddlers definitely have their own ideas about how to bake cookies, and the twins were also quite ambitious about the whole experience - they had their own ideas about rolling the cookie dough like this, placing the cookies on the baking sheet like that, etc. It was pretty hilarious to watch them in action. Perhaps it was those new gingerbread man aprons they now wear that gives them a newfound sense of commanding the kitchen and all the baking activities...well, whatever it may be, the twins were having a great time today as we were making cookies. I commend them for their ambition and their spirit of adventure in baking so many cookies today, but I gotta' say, there is still a little room for improvement in their patience levels when it comes time to watching and waiting for the cookies while they are in the oven.
Down on their knees, watching the cookies as they bake.
See what I mean - the 10 minute cook time for each cookie sheet was really trying their patience.
