Hot Day Activities

Even our outside girl hasn't been able to stand the heat wave we've been having.  Honestly, who can blame her?  So, we've been trying our hardest to come up with fun indoor activities...

A day last week we decided to do some baking!

We made a whole day of it...

First, we needed to borrow some cookie cutters (I have a collection of only 4 and they are all Christmas shapes, so we headed to Aunt Beth's house to borrow a few more fun shapes from her).

Then, we headed to Uncle Ronnie's house to collect a few eggs from the chickens.

Nat was so excited to help with each phase: mixing, rolling, cutting, 

transferring to the cookie sheet, and decorating!

What better toddler activity than one intended to be messy?

The heart shape was her favorite

This was also the day that Natalie discovered sprinkles.  

I'm fairly certain that she spent almost as much time eating sprinkles as she did on all the other parts of baking, which is okay in my book.

here's a pan of our finished product

up close of some of Nat's decorated cookies...isn't she an artist?

Mom!!!!  Sprinkles!!!!!