Baking, Baking, Baking

I can't pull the mixer out nowadays without a 4 year old with blonde hair and a seven year old covered in fur being in the kitchen!  Madison has really taken to helping me out with baking and even a bit of dinner preparations from time to time.  And of course, I can't step into the kitchen w/o Bullpen being under foot.  Between walking over him (he lays out in the kitchen and takes up the WHOLE kitchen floor) and trying to remember to walk around Madison's stool, it's a mine field in my kitchen when I'm in there baking or cooking!

First, she helped me bake Jeffry a birthday cake...

And that was just the start.  Seems we have been baking every weekend since then!

The weekend before we were in the kitchen making Christmas ornaments for Madison's teachers.  She loved running the mixer and making sure that everything was mixed up JUST right.

Then there is the rolling of the dough.

This past weekend, she and I were off to a Christmas Cookie Exchange playdate.  I picked the cookie, she helped me make them.   Her most favorite part was putting the Hershey Kiss on top!  One for the cookie...one for her :-) (Not really, but almost).

We are all looking forward to next week starting a LONG vacation!  Madison and I are getting 11 whole days together with my mom and dad coming for Christmas and then Jeff's parents coming for New Year's!  It's going to be a very festive ELEVEN days!!!