Mather, in general, takes great interest in the domestic chores around the house. After all, it's what she sees us doing all the time. Diapering, laundry, loading and unloading the dishwasher, watering the plants, and so on. She always wants to help. Of all of these, cooking is the thing she's most excited about. She'll "play" cook at any toy stove (or, as is the case at home, a stool improvised into being a stove).
But she also likes to help for real. She gets really excited and puts on her apron (thanks Heather!) and makes sure you put on your apron, too. She helps me make our weekly pancakes -- scooping flour, turning the sifter, stirring the wet and dry ingredients together. On a lark this morning I looked up a recipe for blueberry muffins and made a batch (note: I have never made muffins before). Turns out they're easy! And Mather liked watching them rise in the oven.
But she also likes to help for real. She gets really excited and puts on her apron (thanks Heather!) and makes sure you put on your apron, too. She helps me make our weekly pancakes -- scooping flour, turning the sifter, stirring the wet and dry ingredients together. On a lark this morning I looked up a recipe for blueberry muffins and made a batch (note: I have never made muffins before). Turns out they're easy! And Mather liked watching them rise in the oven.
Ready to enjoy!
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Gabriel likes to help me unload the dishwasher.
I'm hoping to cultivate this so that eventually, I don't have to be involved.
Your mom's tradition was similar to your pancake tradition -- but it just so happened to be apple pie on Saturday mornings.... I used to just seem to happen by every Saturday morning in those Boston days...
mmmm, blueberry muffins!
this afternoon Mather was playing and I was listening with half an ear...first she talked about making bread by drawing on the door with a discarded flower stem; then she was "making bread" with a pencil on paper and finally she made bread by putting alphabet letters in a box. Given an experience she can leap into the imaginary with such ease.
she looks like a grown up adult setting the table for guests in that photo.
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