Summer Week 1 - Baking with my girl!

So, like so many people these days, I'm totally obsessed with Pinterest.  Unfortunately, when I'm working I don't have the time to do most of the things I see.  Since I've been out of school (about a week), I have made about 5 recipes and a few crafty things.  So fun!


One item I made this week was the Skinny Monkey Cookies everyone has been repinning.


Here is the recipe if you are interested: http://onceamonthmom.com/skinny-monkey-cookies/


In a nutshell, they only include peanut butter, bananas, apple sauce, oats, cocoa powder, and vanilla.  Super nutritious and yummy too!  The directions were very simple as well so I decided this would be a great start to what I can only assume will be years of fun times in the kitchen with Soph.

We pretended that it was SO HARD to smash the bananas.  "Grrr...ARGH!"

 I let her pour in a cup of the oats, she poured about half in the bowl and the other half on the floor.  She was so upset!  "(Gasp) Oh NO!!"

 Then she got right to work cleaning it up...

 After we put in all of our ingredients, there was a little applesauce left in the cup and peanut butter on the spoon so she made a quick snack of it.

 All done!  (Note:  This is a Mommy's blog so if you are squeemish...don't read the next lines)

While we waited for them to bake, Soph did a little "business".  I told her that we would change her poo-poos then our cookies would be done and we would get to eat one.  So she repeated over and over "Poo-poo then cookies...poo-poo then cookies!"  

This was one of the most fun things I've ever done with her.  I think every age is my favorite and this is no exception.  It was awesome that she could actually understand what we were doing, why we were doing it, and looked forward to the outcome.  I can't wait to cook some more with her this summer.


Week 2 of our break will take place in North Carolina.  Yay for time with Papa!