Taste Testing

While I was baking our holiday treats, Brecken decided that he was going to be a big help and sneak some tastes of miscellaneous ingredients. First of all, I left to go upstairs and fold a batch of laundry while the pretzels were in the oven. I came back downstairs 10 minutes later and he had the refridgerator open, had gotten a straw out of the utensil drawer and was drinking the whipping cream. YUCK! I asked him what he was doing and all he said was 'Me thirsty'. Well, I tried to explain that whipping cream is not something that we drink but I guess when this kid is thirsty he will drink anyting regardless. I couldn't help but laugh but at the same time think HOW GROSS it must have tasted. Do little kids taste buds not work as well as ours do or do they just not know any different? From the expression on his face he looked like he was loving it. He must have thought it tasted great because he downed quite a bit of it. EEWWW!!!
Second, while I was busy talking on the telephone he decided that he was going to get his chair and climb up on the counter to steal some pretzels to sample. I hope they were good because they were his last. What a mess he can make! He also enjoyed getting into the bag of M&M's that was quickly emptied with his two little hands. What a little stinker!!! But I have to admit it is so cute to see the curiosity in his eyes at what he just discovered before he knows he has been caught and then to see him hurry and hide under the table or bury his head in the corner when he knows he has been found and is in BIG trouble. Silly boy!! :)
Oh and if you notice our gingerbread house in the background, it is missing the Peep christmas tree and snowman because he decided that they would be better in his belly than on the house. Gotta love em'!