baking with mommy

Asher and I expanded on our repertoire in the kitchen by making chocolate chip mini cheesecakes. YUM! It was my week to bring snack to my small group, so I went {where else?} to Pinterest for inspiration.

My little sous chef was a huge help. He placed all of the cupcake liners in the pan for me. Then he showed me the eggs all the while saying "egg. mama - egg!". It was pretty exciting stuff.

{and yes. that's two eggs in one hand - go Asher!}

Be still my Mommy heart - the boy has an egg in each hand! I think it's a good sign of where I am in mommy-ing that I took his picture with the eggs, rather than rushing at him to save the ingredients. ha!

One egg got a fairly sizeable crack when Asher smashed placed the egg back in the bowl, but that's ok. How else will he learn what 'fragile' means? :-) After we got the ingredients all straight I put Asher on his next {and, as it turns out, final} job - crushing the graham crackers for the crust.

Is there a better job for a two year old boy?? Seriously!

He couldn't believe his good luck. I gave him his hammer and let him have at it.

After pounding the graham crackers into crumbs Asher needed a quick cracker snack {hey - you need to test the food as you're cooking} and was done with baking.

I finished the cheesecakes by myself, but that's ok. I have a feeling there's a lot of baking in our future.