peanut blossoms

madelyn spent all morning with daddy. matt got up with her and let me sleep in until 9:15! that was such a treat. and then he took her with him to run some errands and get some lunch. i think they went to babies-r-us and home depot before stopping for a brunch lunch at einstein's. madelyn came home sleeping and slept for more than 3 hours. daddy really wore her out! and i think that they both really enjoyed their time together. plus their outing allowed me to get some things done around the house a lot faster than normal.

after her nap i decided to have her help me make my last batch of cookies - peanut blossoms. (i didn't get them done in time for our new year's parties and already had the ingredients.) she helped unwrap the kisses for pushing into the cookies after they were finished baking. and then i let her push a few of the kisses into the warm cookies. i was very impressed with her focus unwrapping the chocolates, i tried to ask her some questions in the video, but she would only give a soft "yes". the video is long (2 minutes) so you might not want to watch it all since it isn't very exciting. she was very thorough in getting every last bit of foil off the counter and into the trash bowl.

she also got to eat one of these cookies after dinner. i am pretty sure that this is the first real chocolate she has ever had. that is probably why i didn't have any trouble with her trying to eat the kisses as she unwrapped them. love.