My Cute Little Baker

Sadly, Matthew had to work Saturday afternoon. To perk me up a bit, I baked cookies with Linus. It was his first time helping with baking and he had so much fun. We tried a healthy oatmeal carrot raisin cookie recipe from the High Altitude Cooking book I got at the library. I chose it because Linus usually turns his nose up at yellow or orange vegetables, which means he's lacking in vitamin A. I thought this was a good way to sneak them into his diet. The dough was hard for him to mix and he got oatmeal on the floor, which elicited an "Uh oh!" from him. I reassured him that it was okay; we could sweep it up when we were done. I put the dough on one cookie sheet and let him do the other one. That was his favorite part. His whole body was giving off signs of glee. I had to work hard to repress my perfectionism and tendency to interfere. I succeeded for the most part and his little nuggets of cookies turned out just fine.