Last week, December helped me make cookies! She'd never done that before, and she really enjoyed herself. Here she's helping me grease the pan. She also dumped ingredients in the bowl and helped me stir.
She also tried to help me form the cookies, but ended up trying to eat the dough instead.
Cleaning up the counter afterward
...and even washing dishes! She was a BIG help to me, and we had fun!
Here are some of the things December likes to do every day: She got some water-color paints from Aunt Deb while we were in Michigan, and she now LOVES to paint!
She also likes to eat with Daddy. This is one of the reasons Brad is such a great daddy...he doesn't mind getting silly with December and wearing one of her bibs when she asks him to.
December in a bucket, as always
...and December climbing into a box
Every day, she gets to see at least one of her friends. Here she is playing the piano with Noah
And playing with Samuel and Daddy!
A little while ago, Brad brought home some doughnuts from the seminary, and here December is checking them out with Brad
December getting cleaned up before bed. Usually she doesn't take a bath in the sink, but she had been to the beach earlier that day and her lower half was completely covered in sand! So she's soaking a bit.
December cuddling with Daddy before bedtime
More cuddles before bed
On Friday, December and I went to the Flower Fields with Naomi, Noah, and Noah's Grandma & Great-Grandma (who are visiting from England)
Here are the kids with Noah's Grandmas
The Flower Fields are located only a few minutes away from the ocean, and you can see the ocean as you walk along the rows of flowers.
They had a couple of cages with lots of different birds inside, and the chicken was BY FAR December's most favorite attraction. As soon as she saw it, she burst into song, "E-I-E-I-Oooo...had a farm...chicken...E-I-E-I-O!"
There were fields upon fields of these beautiful flowers (but I can't remember their name)
They had a Sweet-Pea Maze, where you wove among rows of tall Sweet-Peas all aranged into a maze. It was great fun, and it was the nicest-smelling maze I've ever been in!
December looking at the Sweet-Peas up close as she wanders through the maze
Sweet Pea
We let the kids lead the way through the maze. That was rather entertaining! It took us a while and we went to more than one dead-end, but they eventually found the way out!
Outside of the maze, looking down on it. You can see one lady's head peeking over the flowers, just to give you an idea of how tall the sweet-peas were!
The fields were absolutely stunning.
One of the workers gathering a boquet of flowers
They also had a greenhouse filled with all different types and colors of pointsettias
Something at the top of the greenhouse is fascinating December...I think it was a plane flying overhead that she was trying (in vain) to get a glimpse of
After the kids got tired of being strapped into their strollers, we let them out to play in the playground there.
December trying to open the door. I think Santa sits here during Christmas time
Naomi, looking at Noah inside the house
The fake telescope was December's favorite part of the playground...
Peeking through the window of the house
