doughnuts and brilliance
I once tried making doughnuts, when I was about 14 years old. It was such a fiasco that I spent the next 14 years of my life in fear of having to try again. Today in the grocery store, Killy saw some doughnuts and begged for them and I said no. Then, he said, “Can we MAKE some doughnuts?” and how could I refuse? (Honestly, cooking with kids on a regular basis is not a whole lot of fun – everything takes 10 times longer, the cleanup is immense, and things don’t turn out pretty and perfect looking. However, the learning benefits are immense: fine motor skills, measuring, pre-math skills, following verbal directions, etc… so I do it with the kids often.) We used a Plain Cake Doughnut recipe and the doughnuts turned out great!
So, in addition to finally convincing Ellie to occasionally wear her hair in a ponytail, I also had the brilliant idea of offering to fix her hair in a “Princess Braid.” She doesn’t particularly like any of the Disney princess movies but she loves the Princesses. She insists on wearing her Princess shirts, picked out a Princess toothbrush, etc. So, the offer of a Princess Braid was too good for her to pass up, and I’ve found another way to keep her wayward curls out of her face on these hot summer days! Isn’t it cute?
And here is Killy, doing his favorite activity:
He looks so grown up in that picture! He’s actually better at Lego Star Wars than David is, believe it or not. He was asking David to help him the other night, and David was trying, but here was what Killy had to say, “No! Don’t do it like that… You need the other character… Go over there… Dad, you don’t really know how to do this, do you?” and he took the DS back. David was terribly embarrassed, and I was terribly amused!