Due to Lily’s condition of being a devil baby, we’ve lately felt that Amelia wasn’t getting enough attention (mostly due to her condition of being a non-squeaky-wheel who self entertains very nicely).
We’ve decided to take turns going on Daddy-daughter and Mommy-daughter dates with her and the results have been fantastic. Amelia has just absolutely loved having one-on-one time with us, so hopefully we’ll be able to keep this new tradition. And don’t worry, Lil’ Lily gets plenty of love and attention – she is very good at demanding it approximately 28 hours per day.
Last week, Little A and I baked cookies. You can tell that she’s Tim’s daughter by the amount of care and detail that she puts into her tasks. You can tell that she’s my daughter because she sticks out her tongue when she’s concentrating:
With every step of this process, Amelia takes time to admire her work. She also takes a lot of time to taste-test her work (quality assurance and whatnot…). The cookie-dough consumption is further evidence of her maternal lineage.
She also tasted plenty of cinnamon hearts and sprinkles along the way. Only the best for our customers (ourselves). It cracks me up how she carefully places each candy piece, and even each single sprinkle.
We have an embarrassingly extensive array of cookie cutters (they are always on clearance after holidays), and Amelia likes to go through them and carefully consider options for our next baking adventure.
We’ve all really enjoyed our dates. Now if only Tim and I could find time to go out…
4 comments:
Love this idea of dates with your kids. I'd offer to babysit so you and Tim could go on a date, but it probably isn't for lack of care takers that you can't find time to go out. :(
Parent/child dates are wonderful! And, I would be happy to watch those two little darlings of yours so you and Tim can go out. Matthew will help me. :)
Awesome parents you two are! And I'm with the previous two commenters: If you'd only move back to Boston, I'd be happy to babysit so that you and Tim could get some quality date time. ;)
Those are Grade AA quality cookies. I would eat any and every one of them given the chance.
Bryn says "I would be glad to help Kim watch the kids."
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