Madeline and Noella's Sweet and Dandy Sugar Candy Peppermint Chocolate Cookie Delights

As many of you know we have been spending LOTS of time at home. We have had one car for about half of the summer. We made Christmas ornaments and other art projects, used our cool 3d chalk, walked to the pool, played an assortment of board games and made many tasty treats. Madeline had the idea to crush up the 3 candy canes we found in the cupboard and make peppeminty cookies-so we did and they were really yummy! We used milk chocolate chips and just followed the recipe in the Better Homes and Gardens red and white checked cook book. The girls have also found it so fun to cut our grass with their scissors. Today we planned to make apricot jam (thank you Ritchies for the yummy apricots!) but found we didi not have the pots to make it so we put the projct on hold until tomorrow. We found other fun things to do like cracking walnuts with the nut cracker--the girls loved that they could use the nutcracker by themselves! We also went outside and I showed the girls how to play hopscotch-a modified version. Noella was so happy that she could do the whole hopscotch:) she was grinning from ear to ear. They got some great exercise this morning before it got hot. The girls also drew pictures for their friends Liam and Cole in NC. While we outside, Madeline drew a picture of our house. It was a really neat learning experience for her to draw what she was looking at and put in all the details. We all took a nap this afternoon and are now waiting for daddy to come home so we can go over to Nonny and Papa's and feed Storm cloud, water the plants and then go to the Boise Hawks Baseball game. The girls won tickets from the summer reading program.
posted by mari at 4:54 PM on Aug 11, 2008