Baking together

The other day e helped me make cornbread to go with the pea soup.  It was hard to hold her back!  She wanted to do everything, and I had different ideas.  But we got it mixed and put it in the oven to bake.

A small red stool sits on the kitchen wall opposite the stove, and we have taught e that is her safe place.  So when I need to open the hot oven, I tell her to "Go to your safe place," then I wait to open the door till she is sitting down.  Sometimes she gets a hot mitt out of the cupboard before she will sit down, but she seems to understand that the stool is her place in the kitchen.  She also sits there or on the floor by the other step stool to eat snacks.  I look forward to the day when we cut out cookies together.

Randy sometimes lets her stand on the tall step stool beside him to "help" him cook or wash dishes.  He taught her how to safely climb up and down on the stool.