Sucker!!!!

Today we preformed a very important experiment. Question: Would Mommy survive a cooking lesson with a 7 yr old and a 4 yr old? Hypothesis: She might survive but with a permanent nerves twitch in her eye and a uncontrollable impulse to yell "fire" when ever a loud noise is made.
Well after extensive study we are proud to say that Mom did survive without the propensity to yell "fire" and the twitch is not completely permanent.

Actually we had a lot of fun. I was surprise to find that my boys have both hit an age that they are willing to listen and follow instruction... when sugar is promised. :) Tennyson was even willing to sit patiently and stir over the boiling hot concoction for several minutes. We decided to make watermelon flavored suckers since they are quite simple. Unfortunately I only have one sucker mold and even after halving the recipe there was still quite a bit left. That is how this gigantic lollipop came into existence.
The boys like to call it the "biggest lollipop in the world". It's even bigger then Tenny's head.

Enoch's mouth was full and he was having a hard time holding up the sucker so that's why he's not smiling and my hand is in the picture helping him hold it up.

Elijah was more then willing to play along with our fun picture taking. He even figured out that he needed to hold the sucker with two hands.
Isn't he adorable. I think this is one of my most favorite pictures ever.
"And how are you my good chap?" It makes a great rose colored monical.
Wow the light going through the sucker makes it look like my lips are stuck to the sucker and my face is turning purple.
After all the fun pictures it was actually time to eat it. Good thing it has two sides.

Here's Enoch polishing off his teddy bear shaped sucker. He actually did quite well at just sucking on it until the very end. Elijah on the other hand mostly bit and swallowed.
Wow he can fit the whole sucker in his mouth.
After we all got our suckers we sat down and played two games of candy-land to top everything off. In all it has been a really fun day and the boys did GREAT for their first little cooking lesson together.