cooking
04.15.08
Lately we’ve been doing a little more cooking with Otis, with F taking over as chef/teacher. It started the other day when they made fresh-squeezed lemonade with Meyer lemons from our tree while I was pretending to be dead on the couch, and although I was too comatose to get up and watch them, listening to their interaction in the next room was just about the cutest thing I had experienced in some time. F is the perfect, patient teacher for Otis’s eagerness to do everything by himself now that he’s a “big kid.” They have now graduated to making buttermilk pancakes, which is F’s specialty. I had recently been joking with a friend that I should train Otis how to wax my legs, since I can’t reach them myself anymore, but really, the cooking will come in much handier (and cost us less in therapy later on). Here’s to hoping that this cooking becomes a trend (I just finished my second rice krispy treat that F made me for dessert tonight)!
On another Otis note, something he said this morning which we thought was hilarious: “I like pandas. I like pandas all day long.”
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Di | 04.16.08 at 12.24 am
Great photo of the kitchen helpers! I think it’s lovely when this type of interaction starts - enjoy every moment of it!!
I agree that the leg waxing thing could be a cause of future trauma :o)
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Lonie Polony | 04.16.08 at 4.34 am
Teaching children to cook is great, especially in these days when they don’t seem to teach any of that practical stuff in school anymore, and many kids don’t seem capable of even making a sandwich or a hot drink for themselves.
For my daughter’s birthday which is coming up, I have bought her a little apron, little mixing bowl, spoon, spatulas, tongs and baking pan. She’ll love it.
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Sam | 04.16.08 at 7.41 am
Damn cute family. Can’t wait to see the new addition. Not sure about leg waxing, but I have tried to teach the kid that “cleaning is fun!!!” She agrees, for about 15 seconds…it’s OK, she’s too short to reach the really dirty stuff anyway.
And I like pandas the whole day long too!
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Ellen | 04.16.08 at 5.13 pm
What a sweet thing. My children love to help me in the kitchen. I’ve got to set more time aside to teach them to enjoy the preparation as much as the final product.
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nyjlm | 04.18.08 at 9.23 am
Sam and I did a lot of cooking when Maya was born. She’d be in the sling, sleeping, and we’d bake up a storm. It was great fun. I bet Otis is even more helpful, because I think he’s older than Sam was at the time.
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Dora | 04.25.08 at 10.43 am
Hi to all! I love the pandas line. Good job on the teaching, F, way to go. :-) I am not surprised at all that buttermilk pancakes would be a specialty of yours!
Love,
Dora