Week 4: Cook with your kids

Cooking together is amazing. Kids like to do what their parents doing anyway, so cooking is perfect, since it's something that needs to be done and it can be done inside out of the million degree weather. We've made cookies together and shucked corn. Chompy helps me measure out the water for oatmeal, and stirs about everything we make together.

Saturday is the perfect day to get up early and walk over to the Phoenix public market. Living in downtown Phoenix is amazing because of the close proximity to so many things. I hate loading the kids up in the car, and they hate it, too. Walking is so much better for us, and the environment.

Chompy helped pick out fresh fruits and vegetables, including green beans, and she got to run around. Stinko enjoyed all the people making eyes at him and waving.

When we got home we enjoyed breaking off the ends of the green beans. Sometimes we got more ends than beans, but there was no complaining. Then Chompy washed all the beans in the sink, and ate quite a few, and then dried them all individually in a hand towel. No four star chef was as careful with these beans as Chompy.

AND when  our big pot of ham and green beans was finally cooked, Chompy ate tons, and enjoyed telling her dad that she helped cook them.