Cookies with Great Grandma

Yesterday I sent a text message to my hair stylist asking if she could get me in for highlights and a cut before our anniversary this weekend.  My last haircut (not given by her) wasn’t that great, so I’ve been anxiously awaiting the chance to change things up a bit.  To my surprise, she had an opening today.  I quickly scrambled to find someone to watch the boys so I could book the appointment.  Great-grandma Lois came to the rescue!  She hadn’t seen the boys since we visited the cabin this past summer, so she was excited to spend some one-on-one time with them.

After a get-out-of-bed-late kind of morning, we were finally ready to head south.  Today’s random “bring along items” were bouncy balls and two pieces of pink wrapping paper.  (I wrapped a birthday present for one of Jake’s cousins before we left and my little helpers wanted their own paper to “wrap” things with too.)  The paper was apparently too fun to leave at home.  But whatever keeps them entertained in the car, right?

Once we arrived at our destination, Nolan took off his coat and shoes and headed for the toys in the basement.  Lincoln wanted to follow, but Grandma Lois hung on to him while we briefly talked about lunch and nap time.  When I returned an hour and a half later, Lincoln was sleeping and Nolan & Grandma Lois were in the middle of making peanut butter cookies.  Yum!  Nolan was in charge of rolling the little cookie dough balls in sugar.  He was pretty proud to be helping out.  Once again, if I had been thinking, I would have pulled out my phone to take a picture.  Unfortunately, this time I didn’t have a teenager to remind me of this, so you’ll just have to imagine my curly haired 3 1/2 year old up on a chair next to the counter, burying cookie dough with sugar.