Cookie Baking Night 10/17/16

Tonight was Cookie  Baking Night. In attendance this evening: Carissa, Allison, Rylar, and Enzo. Tonight we made pumpkin bars.

 

Always the favorite part: putting on the candy pumpkins. 

As usual, a fun time was had by all. 

Cookie Baking Night 10/03/16

Tonight was Cookie Baking Night. In attendance this evening: Emily, Allison, Rylar, and Enzo.

Since Rylar started at Cookie Baking Nights, the Mickey Mouse room has been used more as a storage room than a play area. With Enzo's entrance into Cookie Baking Nights, I saw the need for a structured place of play, so I made it my goal get that room cleaned up and in working order by the next Cookie Baking Night. Mission accomplished. Lots of playing with toys, coloring of pictures, and hanging out with each other went on in the Mickey Mouse room tonight. 

It's officially autumn now, and we're breaking out our favorite autumn recipes. Tonight, we made apple crisp.

Enzo possesses a joy for Cookie Baking Night that I haven't seen since a certain 2-1/2 year old started about 13 years ago. Don't get me wrong, everyone seems to enjoy Cookie Baking Nights, and they all like it, but Enzo shows a certain enthusiasm for the actual "cookie baking" part that is unlike others. He was cutting apples for the "crisp", and when we took the bowl away from him to empty it into the larger bowl, he broke into tears (every time). When I announced to him that I had a new job for him, he broke into spontaneous applause and squeals of joy (every time). As onlookers, we couldn't help but laugh at his unbridled emotions toward the whole experience. He's definitely one of our more enthusiastic participants. 

Tonight we continued in our book "God's Names" by Sally Michael. Tonight's lesson was Jehovah El-Emeth, meaning "the Lord God of truth". We talked about the difference between a lie and the truth. We talked about the fact that you cannot recognize a lie if you do not know the truth.

We learned this about God from Numbers 23:19:

"God is not a man that he should lie, 

or a son of man that he should change his mind.

Has he said, and will he not do it?

Or has he spoken and will he not fulfill it?"

 Jehovah El-Emeth is the Lord God of truth, and he can be trusted. 

Another Cookie Baking Night has come and gone and, as usual, a fun time was had by all. 

Cookie Baking Night 09/19/16

Tonight was Cookie Baking Night. In attendance this evening: Emily, Ethan, Allison, Rylar, and Enzo. Tonight we did something I haven't done in our 13 years of Cookie Baking Nights so far. Tonight we had my birthday choice (I celebrated a birthday at the beginning of this month). For supper I chose chili dogs and tator tots and for the cookie I chose oatmeal bars (raspberry cream cheese and Heath toffee bar flavored)

 

Hmm. Newbies. It's a work in progress. 

There is this little custom we have of walking to the local gas station on birthday choice nights. The weather is cooling down, and the sun is setting earlier these days, so we thought we'd take the opportunity for the walk while we had it. 

The ice cream treat wasn't bad either. 

Another Cookie Baking Night has come and gone and, as usual, a fun time was had by all. 

Cookie Baking Night 08/22/16

Tonight was Cookie Baking Night. In attendance this evening: Emily, Ethan, Carissa, Allison, Rylar, and Enzo. That's right, the list of attendees now includes Enzo. He turned 3 years old last week (the official Cookie Baking Night age) and tonight was his first time at Cookie Baking Night. Tonight was also Allison's birthday choice. Allison turned 6 years old a couple days ago, and today was her first day of kindergarten. You may have noticed as well, she no longer wants to be called Alli, it's Allison now. As is the tradition on birthday choice nights, Allison got to choose what we had for supper tonight and what we baked for our cookie. For supper, she chose cheese pizza, bread, strawberries, and blueberry smoothies to drink. For her cookie, she chose the "butterfly cookie".

Before supper, we started the evening with a little hill rolling in the backyard. 

I've found that no matter how old they get or how many electronic devices are available, no one outgrows rolling down the hill. It entertains all ages at least for a few minutes. There's no picture of this so it can't be proven, but I have been known to engage in a little hill rolling from time to time myself. 

It was a full table tonight!

Enzo's first masterpiece

Sorry. We didn't save you one of these. You'll have to get your sugar high somewhere else.

Since it was Allison's birthday choice, we took a walk to the local gas station to pick up a treat. 

As usual, a fun time was had by all. 

Cookie Baking Night 08/0816

Tonight was Cookie Baking Night. In attendance this evening: Emily, Ethan, Carissa, Alli, and Rylar.
Vegetables are of an abundance at our home right now, so we decided to make use of them at Cookie Baking night. Tonight we made zucchini bread. That's right nothing says "fun Aunt" like zucchini bread. To lessen the blow a bit we did make cinnamon zucchini bread and chocolate chip zucchini bread. The evening was also filled with a lesson from our current book, "God's Names" by Sally Michael (tonight's lesson: El Shaddai meaning God Almighty). We ended the evening with rousing game of Sequence for Kids. As usual a fun time was had by all.