Bakin’ in LK’s Easy Bake Oven

For her birthday, I gave Lilly Katherine the gift I always dreamed of receiving…an Easy Bake Oven!  I was always jealous of the girls on TV that looked like they were having so much fun baking their own cakes and cookies in their own oven!  I never got one as a child, but I have one now so I gave LK one for her birthday! :)

This weekend my dad took AnnaLeigh on a long trip by herself to visit MamaSara and Big Papa, so we only had our big kids.  Man, going from 3 to 2 is easy…which kind of stresses me out going from 3 to 4!  Anyway, tonight Brad took Preston hunting, and I decided it was the perfect time to bust out my new LK’s new Easy Bake Oven.

We baked all afternoon.  We had so much fun, and she just giggled the whole time!  She LOVED it!  As I’ve said a million times, Lilly Katherine is MY CHILD!  I love her so much, and I love that we have so many of the same interests.

This is my girl…and her first (and certainly not last) Easy Bake Oven experience.

She could not wait until the cake was ready.

However, I didn’t expect that the pan would be so hot from a little light bulb (duh!)…and I might have dropped it as soon as we took it out of the oven.  I tried to stick the cake back in the pan to take a pic.  It didn’t work, and we didn’t eat the dirty little cake.

Then LK made chocolate chip cookie sandwiches with chocolate fudge frosting in the middle.  She was in heaven, and kept saying, “I’m baking all by myself!”

With that wild hair, it looks like she had a long day slaving away in the kitchen!

My little girl with her great big heart ate two cookies with giggly glee, she gave me one, and saved the last three for her daddy, Preston, and AnnaLeigh.  She wanted to make sure they each got one.  She loves to give gifts to others, and she was so excited to show them the little bite-sized goodies she made for them.

It was a sweet weekend spending time with a little lady that deserves so much more time than I give her.

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