Cookies!

Happy National Cookie Day!  Lucky for us Cookie Day comes in the midst of the holidays when we are often baking away anyways! Don't forget about the power of reading a loud a recipe and baking with your child.  It is another type of reading and interacting that is just as important as cuddling up
with a good book.

This week my son and I made our favorite chocolate chip cookies.  I found our favorite recipe on a blog that I read Apple a Day.  The recipe is super easy, super quick and super yummy.  If you are looking for a new chocolate chip cookie recipe visit Kelsey's blog by clicking the link above.  You are in for a real treat!

While the cookies are baking why not pass the time by reading some yummy books about cookies!?

We cannot have National Cookie Day without If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Numeroff.

This is the classic tale of "If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk."  Each item that the mouse is given reminds him of something else that he wants, until the story ends with him asking for another cookie.  Kids love hearing all of the requests from them mouse and sometimes even try to guess what he will ask for next. 

When finished with this book, grab a cookie to "taste test" and reading The Duckling Gets A Cookie by Mo Willems. 

The pigeon is at it again.  He has asked for puppies, to stay up late and to drive the bus.  Now he wants a cookie and the duckling has one.  In this book the pigeon begs and begs the duckling for the cookie.  Telling him how much he loves cookies and how he never gets what he wants.  The duckling eventually give the cookie (with nuts) to the pigeon and politely asks for another cookie (with no nuts). If your kids like the pigeon books they will love reading this one while snacking on their cookies!

What is your favorite cookie recipe?

Happy Reading!

Laura