baking with the ladies

my friend jessica mentioned a site called allrecipes.com once, and now i am addicted. the other day i was craving cookies, and well, since i am yet to find chocolate chips in the grocery stores here, i just typed in cookies and it came up with a yummy sugar cookie recipe. so i gave it a shot. it was perfect for the girls to roll out and cut out shapes. i had recently found some great shapes at ikea, including a hedgehog (thought of you efrat!), which i adore.
so we invited over maya and monica and had bit of a baking party. the girls had fun, but maya´s heart was just not into after awhile. but zoe managed to hang on until the end...
or till what we thought was the end. turns out the girls had grabbed a hug chunk of dough and were playing with it on the newly apolstered (sp?) couch! upon my commanding zoe to return the dough to the kitchen, she ran upstairs to her as quickly as she could, small fists tightly holding onto the dough with dear life! in the end i actually had to pry the dough from her hands. luckily maya and zoe quickly recovered from their tears, and even managed to a bit of watercolor painting. monica and maya had brought zoe some long sought after watercolor paint. tack så mycket!
here is a shot of zoe practicing her painting talents this weekend, thank goodness for indoor activities when it is raining cats and dogs outside!