You'd think. However, when the thermometer still looks like this at noon and the rain hasn't quit for the last eight hours, you'd realize that a change of plans is in order!We've checked out Mr. Cookie Baker from the library several times because Maren loves it. She can recite all the words from memory which is good because Mommy gets pretty darn tired of reading it after the 2,395th time. KWIM, fellow Mommies?
Maren has been asking me to make "sprinkle cookies, just like Mr. Cookie Baker" since we brought home the book again this week. What better time to fire up the oven and make cookies than when the weather outside is frightful? We put on our aprons and went to work.
A few hours and a flour-covered floor later we had several dozen pink-frosted and be-sprinkled cookies and one happy little Miss Cookie Baker!
(And for the record, we never broke 60 degrees yesterday, setting a new record minimum high temperature for that day. Ironic, since two weeks ago it was 103 and we set a new record high! Today is shaping up to be exactly the same as yesterday. Meanwhile, it's supposed to be 101 today in Portland, OR. I think there must be some sort of rift in the space/time continuum.)
Those sugar cookies turned out beautiful! You are getting the opposite of our weather in Seattle. Last weekend it was rainy and gloomy, and today was record highs in the 90's! Strange!
ReplyDeleteIt only hit 72 here the past few days - crazy for August. But, I am loving it! Maren is such a cute girl. Those cookies look better than the Lofthouse which I lurve.
ReplyDeletemmmmm... looks good.... how did you handle not eating them... :) Way to pass the dreary days!
ReplyDeleteWay to start her young!! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE her little apron! Mmmm... I think some baking may be in order here today to 8-)
ReplyDeleteLove those photos, how charming, and boy does she looked thrilled, the little cutie pie. What a good mommy to make cookies to satisfy a book dream, wonderous!
ReplyDeleteMy 4 year old daughter LOVES Mr.Cookie Baker Too! It always makes us hungry for cookies too! I wish there was a shop like his in town where we could pick up a beautifully boxed couple of cookies. Yours turned out great!
ReplyDeleteWe need some of that cool weather. Canyou send it on to Texas please? Those cookies sure do look though!
ReplyDeleteoooh those cookies look yummy!
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I know all about the favorite book. My son's favorite was "Rocks, rocks, rocks, I LOVE ROCKS!"
We haven't read it in years *Sniff* and I can still recite the book beginning to end without looking at a single page.
ohmygosh, what an adorable pic of your little girl with the cookies and the book in hand!!
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Jenny in Maine