Time To Make Muffins!

Last week, the Whole Foods store near us kindly hosted up a muffin-making class exclusively for our twins group. I really wasn't sure what to expect, with a room full of toddlers twins and baking ingredients...but it turned out to be a lot of fun, and not too messy!

Each child got to add one ingredient to the mixing bowl. Gavin got to add the eggs! (He kept his coat on the whole time, as usual.)



He was very careful and followed his instructions:



Evie wasn't interested in adding any ingredients. She just wanted her trusty snack cup.



The store had wisely made another batch of muffins earlier, so they were ready to go when it was time to add the frosting. Not a good idea to make a bunch of toddler twins (I think I counted 11 moms, so that makes 22 kids) wait around for muffins to bake and then cool!

Did I mention frosting? Yes, this part could've gotten really messy, but all the kids were very interested in getting as much frosting on their own muffin as possible. All except Gavin - what you see below is about all he put on.



And before you go imagining a room full of sugar-crazed toddlers, let me add that at least the frosting was healthy: it was made from carrots and cream cheese.


Next we made a craft: stringing cheerios and pasta noodles onto elastic to make bracelets. Gavin did his best to get the string through and got one cheerio on before getting tired of it. Evie wasn't interested in doing any stringing.



Here's a close-up of our bracelets:

It was a lot of fun and we hope to do this again! Who wouldn't be in favor of taking someone up on an offer of messing up their kitchen? Thanks, Whole Foods!