The Tall Five Year Old Comes Out

Over the past few months, I've had the opportunity to hang out with two young ladies who Big A likes to refer to as my BFFs.  By young, I mean 4 years old and 2 years old.  Our hanging out happens once a month when the parents work schedules overlap by 3 hours.  Last month, we created this masterpiece:

Yes.  It's a large chocolate chip cookie which was suggested by the 4 year old.  She and I had a great time making this while wearing our aprons (her younger sister napped through the whole process).  It was soooo good.  We both had a pizza-like slice and a glass of milk when it was done.  Getting to that part was a bit of a mess.  I had used the whole cookie dough on the pizza stone and as it baked, it expanded over the edge of the stone and down into the bottom of their oven.  I had to stop, clean it out, trim the dough a bit and then continue on.  It was quite tasty. 

For this month's babysitting adventure, I decided to break out my collection of 120 Crayola crayons:

 

I think my brothers and I all received one at some point at Christmas but when presented with this many new crayons, I just couldn't use them.  Today I decided that life is too short to hoard new crayons (plus I have another 120 Crayola collection too...not sure if it was originally one of my brothers but finders keepers!) so I emptied them out of their boxes of 24 and attempted to put them in the case by hue, much like the cover of the case.  It's not as good as the Crayola professional did but it doesn't make my OCD flare up too much.  

Tomorrow we shall snack on the classic Barnum's Animal Crackers and color St. Paddy's Day coloring pages that I printed from the internet.  This just might lead me to breaking open the other set of 120 as well as the Barbie coloring books that I still have.  Is there anything more relaxing that coloring Barbie's hair with the 'goldenrod' crayon, her skin with 'peach' and who knows what for her outfits?  I can't think of anything.