Cooking is Fun!

Grace starting "cooking" when she was about 2 years old. She loved to stand up at the counter and start throwing things into a bowl and mixing. It didn't matter what it was or how it was going to taste, it was simply her own creation. It was fun for her and, I assume, good for her imagination. Well, she got the urge to do this the other night so we gave in. Although it is probably a really great hands-on activity for fun at home, it is not a terribly fun clean-up! We gave in anyway and they started mixing. I think the ingredient list ended up being flour, sugar, water, 1 egg, a random mixture of spices, a gravy mix, food coloring, green onions, and chocolate chips. I think that was about it. Lyla kept tasting it and spitting it back in her bowl. I tried to get a good pic of that but couldn't really get her face. It was going okay until Lyla started mixing with her hands! That is when it started dripping on the countertops and floor. I was okay with that, until she dumped the whole bottle of green food coloring into her bowl! I had no idea food coloring smelled sooooo bad! Then I started to freak out a little when that started dripping all over my tiled (with grout) countertops. That's when cooking time ended. Thanks to a lot of cleaner with bleach the green came out of the grout! At least their imagination grew a little that night, right?