Alas, yet another of my children thinks the process of baking cookies involves transfering pre-made, pre-decorated cookie dough discs from a box to a tray.
For Sydney, she may not be learning to bake, but at least she's learning to count. Okay, in reality, she's just getting lots of practice counting, because she doesn't follow directions very well. I told her she needed to put 12 cookies on each tray. In the time it took me to put supper's leftovers in the refrigerator, she'd counted into the teens while piling all 24 cookies on one corner of each tray. And so we started counting again. One, two, three...
And then, just because she's Sydney and has to always test her limits, she teasingly lifted one of the cookies up to her mouth, which she knows she's not supposed to do, right as I was taking the picture. To her credit, she immediately put the cookie back down, without ever actually putting it in her mouth. Little turkey!
For Sydney, she may not be learning to bake, but at least she's learning to count. Okay, in reality, she's just getting lots of practice counting, because she doesn't follow directions very well. I told her she needed to put 12 cookies on each tray. In the time it took me to put supper's leftovers in the refrigerator, she'd counted into the teens while piling all 24 cookies on one corner of each tray. And so we started counting again. One, two, three...
And then, just because she's Sydney and has to always test her limits, she teasingly lifted one of the cookies up to her mouth, which she knows she's not supposed to do, right as I was taking the picture. To her credit, she immediately put the cookie back down, without ever actually putting it in her mouth. Little turkey!
Challenge, challenge, challenge... Sydney's getting it down to a "real science." Experience tells me that it's only just beginning. Just you wait!!! You might have been "the world's most perfect child until the age of four" as your sister called you, but after that.... Sydney's just starting a little younger. Hee, hee. Good luck.
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