Kristin the cooking queen

Kristin is going to be the next and youngest Food Network Star. It all started out with planting tomato seeds. We waited until Daxton went to bed and then planted the seeds and she did so well. So on that Friday I put Daxton down early to nap and she made chocolate pudding! We had make your own pizza dinner night and she has been cooking almost daily since then. She has made meatloaf, chicken butter sauce, corn bread, cookies, rice noodles with shrimp and sauce... the list goes on and on. It is so much fun for both of us and she is a great listener. When we need to cook on the stove I pull a high stool (With a back) a safe distance from the stove. She helps me get the ingredients into the pan and then helps watch for it. Pasta she likes because she gets to tell me when it looks like her bubble bath! She gets so proud of herself. Her play kitchen already was her favorite toy next being her play-doh, clearly because she "cooks" with the play-doh too making pasta, cookies, hot dogs, anything. However, now I can honestly say, I can't remember the last time we were in the family room with her playing with a toy besides her food unless we make her. Kristin is amazing and its such a blast. When we made the corn muffins I was even so daring as to do it while Daxton was awake! I was pretty darn proud of myself... is that allowed? Because I totally was. He liked to watch and then we was playing with a spare cupcake pan! Such a good boy!!! Kristin can even pull the tails off of the shrimp! I know its hard to say what she'll do when she gets bigger but I think cooking will be a favorite past-time. That and hockey.... she has said now three days in a row she wants to play hockey. Randomly and unprompted....