Progression of cookie making with a 4 year old and a 19 month old

Remember this picture from the previous post? Remember how I said that was the first of many times we baked sugar cookies?  Well, let me tell you the rest of the story.

Step 1: Roll out lots of dough and give rolling pins to children.  So far so good.

Step 2: One child follows direction.  The other is planning on moving in for the steal.

Step 3: One child continues to laugh and plan for the steal while the other one gets upset she can't roll the dough correctly.

Step 4: Uh oh...one child made a move and tries to sneak a bite while he doesn't look at you while thinking "if I can't see mommy, she can't see me".  The other child realizes what he did.

Step 5: Busted.

Step 6: Move one child away while the other cuts the cookies out.

Step 7: Resort to letting the not-even-2-year-old child paint.  Don't worry.  I stripped him to his diaper.

Step 8: Let this child paint with his hands because he was trying to paint the other child with the brush.

Step 9: Paint with anything he can get his hands on.

Step 10: One child follows directions like a champ and is now decorating.  Mommy turned around for 0.000934 seconds and other child grabbed a cookie.  Go-go-gadget-arms anyone?

Step 11: One child is proud of her handiwork while the other continues to shove that entire cookie in his mouth.

Step 12: Squeeze an entire tube on green icing on one cookie.

Step 13: Be very meticulous in all your work.

Step 14: DUMP large amounts of sprinkles on EVERYTHING, including the floor.

And, that concludes how to make cookies with a 4 year old and a 19 month old.  Also, remember to grab camera and document the whole thing instead of clean up the bag of flour on the floor, the hundreds of sprinkles on the countertop, and the 15 cookies your 19 month old just shoved in his mouth.  I wouldn't trade these memories for a clean kitchen!