[Photo Story] Baking with Ben

[ "Ben, I know for sure it was here when I left to go to the bathroom." ]

Ben and I decided to bake chocolate chocolate chip cookies this afternoon. We always like to bake together, and he is actually pretty good at helping me with it. He listens, usually. Today, he did well. The same as usual. I like to try and sit him down on the couch after most of the mixing is over, just because its easier that way. So I turned on Little Bill and he was doing fine, so I snuck out of the livingroom to take to cookies out of the oven. I try to catch it before the timer goes off, because as soon as he hears the beep it's all over. I caught it and put the cookies on the cooling rack. He did come in, but not until after I had put the next pan in the oven. He was longing for one of the steamy cookies on the rack, you could just see it in his eyes. Then I realized I had to go to the bathroom really bad. So after telling him multiple times that the cookies were hot and not to touch them until I came back, I left Ben sitting at the table gazing at the cookies.

The first thing I noticed when I got back was that Ben was gone. Then I looked down and saw that a cookie was missing. Not to my surprise :-) I didn't really care either. "Ben, I know for sure it was here when I left for the bathroom." No response. Then I heard his foot slip and the chair under the table squeak across the floor. "Ha! I found you!" And he still didn't move... thus the pictures of him under the table. They totally weren't staged. He stayed there until the timer for the next batch of cookies went off, then he popped up and said "Ha! I found you!" Then we both laughed and had some fun eating our cookies. It was a very entertaining afternoon.

Here's the pictures....