Owen Makes Gingerbread

Maisy is one of Owie's favorite celebrities. She is featured in many adventurous books that can be found at the library. She has also been discovered as a television star and plays the lead role in a sweet-natured little show on Noggin.

Pictured is the book we checked out of the library last week. What a good read! Not too much room for interpretation or discussion, just a very straight-forward, heart-felt story about a mouse making some cookies.

Owen was fascinated by the mysteries of gingerbread. "What is it? A bread? A cookie? Would I like it? Are those eggs in it? I like eggs." So off we headed to the kitchen to discover the wonderfulness of gingerbread. (Plus, Mimi had a very important birthday coming up, and who doesn't love gingerbread cookies on their birthday?)

Owie kept me in line, letting me know just how Maisy went about making her cookies. We even got out a red bowl for mixing, since Maisy's bowl was red. It was of utmost importance that we get the cookies just right for Mimi.

Yummo! The dough sure was tasty!

Cutting out pretty shapes. All those hours playing with play-do payed off right here!

Decorating with raisins. O wasn't too sure about this step. Raisins? On cookies? But after consulting our book, it did seem that Maisy's cookies had tiny black things on them that could possibly be raisins. Phew.

Our cookies turned out great! Somehow, Mommy who is constantly looking at life through a camera lens managed to overlook getting a picture of the end result and of lovely Mimi on her birthday. But what a memorable day spent with my O!