This weekend, I was working on decorating Easter cookies. Gillian really wanted to help so yesterday morning I told her we could make chocolate chip cookies together. She was so excited and said "Your World Famous cookies?!?" I said "Yes!" After I ran all my errands I called her upstairs to help. Gillian did everything. I simply handed her the ingredients. She even scooped cookies onto the tray! After the cookies were done Gillian came running to taste her famous cookies. She shared with John too!
I think these are some of the best chocolate chip cookies I have ever made. I asked Gillian "Did you put in a special ingredient?" She said "I just put in a little ungredient. Just a little extra sugar!"
Two weeks ago after Religion Class, Gillian said to me "Mom, we are having a spring party next time. Can we make those chick cupcakes?" I am constantly surprised by Gillian's memory. My mom bought me a decorating set where you can make cupcakes look like baby chicks. She bought it last year. I had intentions of making cupcakes for school or something but never did. I was going to just use the pieces for my cookies. Gillian had other plans. I told her "Yes. We can make some cupcakes for your class."
This past Saturday, I made the cupcakes and I had Gillian decorate them. I think they looked great.
Since the set only made 12 cupcakes and I baked 24 cupcakes, I let Gillian decorate the remaining cupcakes however she wanted. Let me just note that I have moved most of my sugars, sprinkles and assorted cookie decorations to a lower cabinet and Gillian used this to her advantage.
The last Sunday of February, Daddy and I had to spend some time at the dealership counting inventory. Since the dealership was closed we brought the kids along to hang out while we counted. The kids were so good. On our way home that night I promised to buy them something as a reward for their good behavior. John picked a Level Pack for his Lego Dimensions game. Gillian wanted a new Lego set.
This past weekend she started her new set.
I helped only to sort the pieces and if she had a question. But besides that she built the whole thing by herself. I am so proud. This is the first set she made without any help.
This past week was Read Across America. John's school celebrates every year with a program called Reading on the River. The kids from each grade are assigned a theme and they get to dress up like fictional characters to go with the theme. This year the 3rd grade got the theme Dr. Seuss. John was super excited about this theme. At first he wanted to dress like Wacky Wednesday. But at the last minute he decided "I want to dress like There's a Wocket in my Pocket!" This was simple enough to do. Daddy took on the task of making the Wocket. I think it looked awesome.
When I picked John up from school, he said that most of the kids in his class were either Cat in the Hat or Thing 1 or 2. He was so happy he picked something different!
I have a No TV during the week rule. We don't get a lot of time with the kids after school and we have found that we barely have enough time for homework, dinner and baths without the distraction of TV.
Tonight we had about twenty minutes before bedtime. We were going to send the kids to their rooms to read but instead Daddy turned the TV on. John said "I smell a rule breaker!" Daddy picked one of the kids favorite shows "Forged in Fire." The show is about blacksmiths that have to make weapons like knives and axes. The kids snuggled up with Daddy and watched TV. Sometimes you just gotta break the rules.
Daddy loves wool socks and on occasion I borrow them. On Saturday night, I went to check on the kids after they were in bed awhile. Gillian was sound asleep. John was not. Before I could lecture him, he said "I know. I should be asleep. But my feet are so cold." So I bent over and pulled off my socks, well Daddy's wool socks that I was wearing. I put them on John's cold feet. He was so happy. And he actually wore them all night long.
Sunday night I helped him get dressed in his pajamas. When he was dressed he asked "Where does Daddy keep his socks?" I told him and he helped himself to another pair of Daddy's socks. He loves those socks.
