Breakfast with Gabriel

Mixing it up!

It's interesting the amount of influence your children have over your life. Although Gabriel has already eaten breakfast, he thinks this would be a great day to make pancakes.

Gabriel may only be 23 months old, but thinks he is an adult. He announces, "I'm going to help you Papa!!" and runs into the kitchen with his typical "cat-like swiftness". Once in the kitchen, he slowly pushes a chair from the table up to the counter. He climbs up and immediately eyes the bowl with the pancake batter. "I'll stir", he says with an eager look in his eyes.

Fifteen minutes later, we had stirred the batter, poured it into the pan, poured it into the sink, poured it on to the floor, poured it on each other, flipped some pancakes, burned our hands (note to self: don't let your two year old too near to the hot pan, if you want to create a positive cooking experience), and even ate some of our batch. In fact, we finished with some good looking matching Mickey Mouse pancakes! I think Gabriel's favorite part was eating Mickey's ears. It was quite an eventful Sunday morning breakfast! Enjoy the photos!