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Fun Dip

When we went to Elko during Colsen's birthday weekend, Colsen discovered the joy of Fun Dip. Thank you Willy Wonka for this confectionary wonder. What better way to pass the time in a hotel room than to eat sugar with a stick made of sugar?

I was actually quite impressed with Colsen's adeptness at being able to dip the stick so easily into the sugar packet for consumption. Should this actually be a concern rather than a point of familial pride? I hate being so happy about things that later on become a regret. I'm just going to confuse the little guy.

Making Cookies

One of my all time favorite family traditions is making cookies. I mostly did this with my grandma when I was younger. My dad never seemed to mind when it was cookie time either as he was the beneficiary. So I guess the ultimate goal is to teach Colsen to make me cookies when I have a craving for them.

Colsen likes to help me with everything in the kitchen, from pouring spices on stuff to putting the dishes away. So the other day I decided to try making cookies with him. I mean, come on, he's 2 now. He should have a firm grasp on baking by now.

He of course wanted to stir all the ingredients.

One of his favorite things to do when we're in the kitchen is cracking eggs. Actually, it's more smashing the eggs than cracking them, but I have gotten really good at picking shell parts out of the yolks.

At one point we had to stop for a break to eat brown sugar. It is mighty tasty. In fact he would have been satisfied just with that.

After slightly burning the first batch, they turned out all right. Colsen certainly enjoyed them.

He also very much enjoyed feeding them to Cookie Monster.

Cousin Amy, if you're out there reading this, I think we're ready to tackle some Christmas sugar cookies. You know, if your mom will let us use the sprinkles.

Aquarium

We had a chance the other day while we were in Salt Lake to visit the aquarium. It's quite impressive the number of sea creatures that are bigger than Colsen. The featured exhibit were penguins. He enjoyed those. I haven't decided yet who enjoys these trips more, me or him.

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Say Cheese

Kids are so cute at this age. Unfortunately, they don't understand the concept of standing still, looking at the camera, and smiling for a picture. For every good picture I take, I have at least three others of the top or side of Colsen's head as he looks this way or that. I'm impressed when professional photographers make it look so easy with their bells and squeaky toys. It's harder for them to get a good picture of the parents than the child who in between takes is crying, yelling, and/or wiggling. Here's to you professional child photographer.

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1, 2, 3, 4....

Colsen finds it necessary to count before going down the slide. He's just not very consistent as far as what he's going to count to. He counted to a different number everytime. I was able to take this picture because fortunately he was counting to ten before sliding down. Prior to that he only counted to four. Odd.

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Sunny Day, Sweeping the Clouds Away

Today was warm enough that we were able to have family day at the park. Good times. Can't wait for some consistently good weather so that we can do this more often. Way better than watching PBS Sprout all afternoon.

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