Concoction

What on earth kind of cookie do you think this could be?

All I'm going to say for now is that it is a concoction of sorts and is edible but, well... not so much eat-able... but more on that further down...

I have to say, this little girl has been rolling right on through some 'firsts' this week!

My fifth blessing has tried mashed banana and pear mixed in rice cereal this week, for the first time and enjoyed them. Splendid! She has also started spitting, blowing bubbles and making herself heard this past week! How hilarious that is... I can't remember any of my other babies doing that! But for goodness sakes, I can't remember that far back... heck, I can't even keep 'which baby did what thing, when' straight! Don't want to get into that, the fact that the more kids you have, along with having them close together, the more you forget, and so on and so forth... but, I'm off-track.

Ahem, anyways... where was I?

This week we also had the unfortunate incident of her first tumble off of the couch. So sad! We're just thankful she's hard-headed like her daddy (okay, okay, like her mommy) and the minor fall didn't phase her a bit!

Accidentally let my first 'NO!' slip out, aimed at her this week (gasp). I know, I know... this sweet little thing?

In my defense, all I can say, is that, 'NO!' is what instinctively comes out my mouth when a plate full of food is being pulled off of the table onto our laps.

Oh, and this week was the first time this cutiepie has worn cloth diapers, legwarmers, and a zip-up Tigger costume.

Which brings me to this photo...

My kids are so much fun!

So, back to this yummy concoction...

"What on earth kind of cookie do you think this could be?" Like I said, it's made of edible ingredients but isn't exactly edible.

I recently let my kids go wild with ingredients pulled from our cupboards, marshmallows, honey, milk, baking soda, sugar sprinkles, cocoa, white chocolate chips and things of that sort. I love to encourage their creative juices to flow! It's amazing the things they can come up with on their own.

On this particular day, I encouraged them to write their own recipes!

Pour their own ingredients!

Stir their own batter!

Experiment!

Bake their own cookies!

Eat the fruits of their labor!

Eat, I say?

Sadly, nay, because after all that stirring, mixing and baking...let me not get into the details, but suffice to say that the birdies, the ants and the squirrelies even shied away from this baked concoction! My imaginative kiddos had a blast making it but next time may I remind myself not to put the baking soda out... uhmm, yeah. They added a bit much and made it UN-eat-able... but again, they had a blast making it all on their own with their own sweet little hands and being able to imagine and set into motion a recipe all their own...so they didn't mind so much that we couldn't eat them!

Even my little man joined in the fun...

...By eating the white chocolate chips... the cookies concoction, turned out to be just that a fun, sticky concoction of sorts. Edible but not necessarily eatable... but definitely worth the fun!