Rain and Baking

Cora created a fun game to play this rainy morning - leaping from tile to tile.

She also pushed her doll around in the stroller, saying she was taking her to Stroller Strides, Disneyland and McDonalds.

Her doll is also named Ducky - or Duckie, as some of my friends have suggested we spell it, since she's a girl.

And, she spent time running back and forth across the house; who needs warm sunshine? When it was raining a few nights ago, I heard her calling out to me around 10 p.m. When I checked on her, she was wondering what that noise was - was Daddy in the shower?

On Friday, after our My Buddy and Me class, we got Cora's hair cut. Doesn't it look beautiful? This time, we had the stylist braid it in the front.

On Thursday, Cora and I did some baking.

We made a large batch of pumpkin chocolate chip muffins, using the pumpkin we selected from Underwood Farms in October. (We had frozen the flesh - it wasn't sitting around for two months!)

We also made some chocolate crinkle cookies. This is a variety my grandma always made at Christmas, when she would make tons of different types of cookies.

Cora spent most of the preparation time standing at the sink, playing with the dirty dishes and water.

She had a great time, and even took a short break from the dishes to help fill the muffin pan with paper liners. If I may say so myself, all turned out very well.