When Daddy is away...

the GIRLS WILL PLAY!

And what better way to play, than to get messy?

I love to bake. I hope I can pass that love on to Ava as well. So, for some time now I've been wanting to bake cookies with her, I even bought a bunch of cookie cutters. Yes, I knew it would be messy, she's 2. But I also knew she'd love it. So Friday afternoon after Ava's nap we got everything ready and had ourselves a little bit of fun and a lot of messy.

just up from her nap, but dressed and ready to go

wearing Daddy's grillin' apron, too cute!

sugar cookie dough rolled out, cookies cutters at work.

Ava chose the airplane for Joshua.

After the baking and cooling we got to icing. Ava wasn't nearly as fond of this stage until she realized what the icing was. I ended up icing the cookies while she licked the icing off her knife.
ooo, sprinkles

LOTS of sprinkles! Oops.

she needed to try the sprinkles to make sure they tasted good.

showing off her masterpiece

Finally sitting down to taste the goods.

They must be good.

We took Joshua's cookies over to him afterwards, in hopes it would make him feel better. He and his entire family, minus his Mommy, are sick. Yuck! But an airplane cookie should help for sure.

Our first baking experience was lots of fun. We'll definitely have to try this again... shoot we have 101 cookies cutters to experiment with!