"Cooking" for FHE

On Monday night we did an activity for FHE that Jojo absolutely loved! We made pretzels from scratch. Recently the kid has decided that cooking is tons of fun and his favorite thing to do is help Mommy when she is in the kitchen. He actually comes up to me and says, "Cook please Momma?". Yeah, I cannot resist the cuteness when he bats those huge brown eyes at me and says please. I am so screwed when he gets older!
I usually let him sit at the table since I use the plastic mixing bowl or just have him add ingredients to the pot before it goes on the stove. This time though, since the recipe makes so much, I put him the highchair because I had to use the giant Pyrex bowl. He didn't seem to mind though. We let him pour the measured ingredients into the bowl and then let him stir. Kid was in heaven!

He ended up with flour in his hair and a spoon of dough (no eggs in the recipe so I have no issues letting him eat the dough - it was pretty tasty!).

A very successful Family Home Evening activity indeed! For the lesson we talked about Jesus and sang "Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam". Short and simple since he is only 2 and really doesn't have the patience for more involved lessons yet. Zachary spent the whole time being passed between Mommy and Daddy but he seemed to enjoy the song at least!