Friday, September 24, 2010

Tortillas

Katelyn is the most wonderful little helper around the house. She really loves to help cook, do laundry, sweep, do dishes, get the mail...just about everything there is to do around the house. She just doesn't like vacuuming. The vacuum currently scares her.

This post is a bit about my little chef. She loves to don her apron and help around the kitchen. She also has a toy set of dishes (thanks Grandma F!) that she uses when I'm not working in the kitchen. She requests water in her toy bowl and whisks it lots and lots until it is ready for her to drink. This also results in requests for towels. It is hard to keep from spilling as you whisk water in a small bowl.

On one particular day recently I was making tortillas for dinner. (If you haven't ever made tortillas from scratch, do it. They are tasty. I can't eat store bought tortillas anymore. Well, maybe that will just encourage you to NOT try. These are pretty yummy. I even substitute vegetable shortening for the lard like it says not to do.) Katelyn of course needed to help. She quickly gets a chair and pushes it to the counter when I start cooking. Then she puts on her apron.
She also has her rolling pin from her play cooking set. And of course any good cook has to test her food to make sure it is up to her standards.
It was in the midst of rolling and cooking tortillas that Katelyn first noticed the mess she was making with flour.
My little girl is obsessed with cleaning in addition to cooking. Naturally she quickly requested a rag when we finished with the tortillas. Then she got to work.
Isn't she so cute and helpful? I have so much fun watching her grow and develop each day into such a wonderful little girl.

2 comments:

Alexis said...

oh how i wish and wish i could get my daughter to potty train. she has no interest in it and i have her sit on the potty for 5 minutes and still nothing. i'm too pregnant to sit with her for more then that time. she does request to have a book while she sits. i just can't get her to go potty! what was your secret?

Emily said...

Oh my, I can't imagine trying to potty train while being pregnant. She does often take books with her. I do have a book I really like that you could totally borrow if you'd like.