As you all know, Miss Kate loves to stir. She is in her element when she is allowed to stir anything.
She also takes her stirring duties very seriously...
When fixing the eggs for breakfast she stirs with all diligence.
Until she notices you watching her and smiling to yourself. :)
Then she is just very pleased with herself. She loves to follow me about "helping" me do whatever I'm doing...but most of all she loves to work in the kitchen with me.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, she can be found in the kitchen, on the counter doing whatever I will allow her to. :)
While helping mom make tuna sandwiches for lunch...She has found the bread knife.
I promise this isn't as dangerous as it looks, she is just getting a good grip on the knife so she can try her hand at slicing the bread. She's fairly cautious and the knife is fairly dull. (also the glowing toaster oven behind her isn't even hot to the touch yet, and she knows better than to get into the knife set which is also behind her.)
She gives a few attempts at sawing the bread...
Before deciding that stabbing a precut slice would be more suited to her talents.
Lacking the needed coordination with her left hand, she attempts the right hand.
Mission accomplished!!!
She also takes her stirring duties very seriously...
When fixing the eggs for breakfast she stirs with all diligence.
Until she notices you watching her and smiling to yourself. :)Then she is just very pleased with herself. She loves to follow me about "helping" me do whatever I'm doing...but most of all she loves to work in the kitchen with me.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, she can be found in the kitchen, on the counter doing whatever I will allow her to. :)
While helping mom make tuna sandwiches for lunch...She has found the bread knife.I promise this isn't as dangerous as it looks, she is just getting a good grip on the knife so she can try her hand at slicing the bread. She's fairly cautious and the knife is fairly dull. (also the glowing toaster oven behind her isn't even hot to the touch yet, and she knows better than to get into the knife set which is also behind her.)
She gives a few attempts at sawing the bread...Before deciding that stabbing a precut slice would be more suited to her talents.
Lacking the needed coordination with her left hand, she attempts the right hand.
Mission accomplished!!!...the bread has finally stuck to the end of her knife
And (thankfully) mom is done making lunch now so knife stabbing techniques will be delayed until a future lunchtime.
(P.S. I really don't promote violence in any way, shape, or form...it just appears that way sometimes.) :)
And (thankfully) mom is done making lunch now so knife stabbing techniques will be delayed until a future lunchtime.(P.S. I really don't promote violence in any way, shape, or form...it just appears that way sometimes.) :)
Now it's on to the baking...
She is allowed to dump the dry ingredients together which she does very seriously. She is always very focused when helping in the kitchen until she notices me laughing at her. :D
The she proceeds to stir the dry ingred. until she is needed with something else...or usually until I need the dry ingred. then I console her by letting her turn the mixer on and watching her "stirrings" dissapear into the dough.
On this particular day we were making Pumpkin Cookies (soo very good)
She was stirring happily along...
Until she looked over and noticed the other bowl there on the counter beside her, begging her to stir it too.
She tried to just ignore it, but it wouldn't go away...
So at last she gave in.
(who cares if there was nothing in it but an empty butter box)
I mean, who can resist the opportunity to stir something...
She is allowed to dump the dry ingredients together which she does very seriously. She is always very focused when helping in the kitchen until she notices me laughing at her. :DThe she proceeds to stir the dry ingred. until she is needed with something else...or usually until I need the dry ingred. then I console her by letting her turn the mixer on and watching her "stirrings" dissapear into the dough.
On this particular day we were making Pumpkin Cookies (soo very good)So while I continued with the actual baking of them she was allowed to stir the left over pumpkin.
She was stirring happily along...Until she looked over and noticed the other bowl there on the counter beside her, begging her to stir it too.She tried to just ignore it, but it wouldn't go away...So at last she gave in.(who cares if there was nothing in it but an empty butter box)
I mean, who can resist the opportunity to stir something...or better yet, two somethings at once.
...Until her arm got tired. :)
...Until her arm got tired. :)Hope you enjoyed watching as much as she enjoyed stirring,
and have a great rest of your day. :D
