my date with Jonah

Last night I had a date with Jonah.

As many of you know he is my favorite date.

We made cookies.

Best. Idea. Ever. Seriously.

The night began with a carpet picnic of pizza and crazy bread
and watching Toy Story 3...of course

(which incidentally Jonah almost has memorized)

But Toy Story 3 was no match for making and decorating cookies...

Rolling out the dough

we're working on the importance of actually rolling the rolling pin ON the dough.

Jonah also REALLY loved spreading the flour on the counter so the dough wouldn't stick

Apparently you can never have enough flour as evidenced by his pants.

This was Jonah telling me that HE was going to use the cookie cutters all by himself.

I can't believe I didn't get more pictures of that.

Trying to explain to a two a half year old how to make the most efficient use of the dough by spacing the cookies close together when cutting them out is not very easy.

But that is ok because that just provided more opportunities to roll out the dough.

Then it was on to the frosting while the cookies were baking.

Jonah was pretty good about adding the ingredients...

This was very serious business and he was so good about helping.

He just had a difficult time getting a FULL cup of the powdered sugar...

Posing for the camera while getting ready to add food coloring to the frosting.

True fun is not had unless a real mess is made!

As usual my date with Jonah was great. Lot's of laughing and eating cookies.

I would show you pictures of us decorating the cookies but Jonah was more excited to eat them without frosting.

I love this picture...and especially our matching dimples!

Love you J-man!