Baking

The kids helped me bake several dozen cookies over the weekend.   Well, I should clarify that statement to say that we started with several dozen cookies.  We ended up with a respectable 2/3 of that number after making some necessary discards.  A batch got sneezed on, two batches had all the cookies licked by Zoey, and another batch had all the chocolate chips dropped on the floor and then added back to the batter along with some dustbunnies and an old Fruit Loop.  Ahhh the joys of baking with a toddler and a preschooler.  But I promise, the surviving cookies are totally sanitary!

The kids had fun, despite an epic meltdown by Finn about wanting to keep the butter to hold instead of putting it in the batter.  Apparently he walked around with it for so long that they became friends, he pleaded to "keep the butter for Finn".  Kids are weird.

Licking the baking tools is the best part:

Adding the sprinkles:

Even Aunt Dawn baked this year!  It really might be the end of the world: