Birthday Cookie

Metta's birthday is coming up in a few days and, since we baked Banana Oatmeal Cookies today, we made a giant cookie for Metta. We figured he'd rather have his birthday cookie early and fresh instead of a slightly stale cookie on his birthday. 2 year old Nunu proudly brought the cookie to Papa, telling him it was just for him but he had to eat his dinner first. Nunu returned with the platter minus a bite of cookie! I started grilling Nunu if she had eaten a bite. A voice called out "I'm only admiting to it because I don't want Nunu to be blamed!" I suppose that's a good dad...

We originally made Banana Oatmeal cookies (recipe from bakingbites.com) because we were celebrating Booboo's success at keeping her bed dry at night. It was a private baking party of three - myself, Booboo and Nunu. The girls were given a cookie each when the phone rang and I became engrossed in a real estate call. When I emerged, the girls had silly grins on their faces and the plate of cookies cooling on a rack held a single cookie. They had each swiped 3 or 4 cookies. I had a talk with them telling them that it was ok, they should have asked first, but if they didn't want to get in trouble they better not sugar crash. They gamely agreed and held their end of the bargain. The cookies are now kept out of reach on a high shelf.