Baking with Rhys

Today I spent the day with Rhys and managed to keep the Octonaut watching to somewhat of a minimum. I think we watched maybe a total of an hour...and even that was broken up into two sessions. Rhys always says to me, "Mommy, can I help you?" Whenever he sees me doing something, he wants to take part in it. So I figured, why not bake and have him help me I out! So we went to Chipotle and then walked around the Petco to look at the animals. Then we went into vons to get some missing ingredients. There is a scary skeleton that is on sale at vons that rhys is scared of. The skeleton is in a jail and he screams, "Get me outta here! I don't belong here! Rawr!" I always ask him if he wants me to take him home and he says no. In fact, he tells me that he wants to get out of here. Lol.

Anyways, we came home and after I fed maddy and put her on my back, we started baking. I hadn't used the stand mixer since Rhys' 1st bday that I had to wash the dust off of it. He helped me put most of the ingredients in and he also scooped out the dough and put it on the pan. It seemed like he had lots of fun. He ate 4 cookies! I was only gonna give him 3, but I gave him the 4th so I could take a picture of him holding the cookie.

It actually took a bit of time so I was able to burn it well! I need to do more activities like that with Rhys. That way he has some fun and the time flies too!