Peeling oranges

Lucas has been more and more involved in food preparation lately. He loves helping get meals ready. Yesterday he was standing around while I was making lunch, so I asked him to pull up a chair and help me peel an orange. I didn't really expect him to be able to do it, I just thought it would keep him happily busy for a few minutes. Much to my surprise, he peeled the orange perfectly by himself. Then he asked me for a bowl and broke all of the slices apart and put them in the bowl. Wow!
He enjoyed it so much, I set him out four oranges to peel for lunch today. He was thrilled and so proud that he was able to help prepare our meal :)

Kitchen fun

Lucas loves playing in the kitchen sink. And he loves helping with meal preparation. One of his favorite activities? Washing fruit to eat in the sink!














I plugged the kitchen sink and filled it with water. And gave him a bunch of grapes to put in. I set a strainer out on the side of the sink and let him do what he wanted.
He plucked, washed and ate each grape until he was full.










Then he got out his plastic cups and bowls that we use for playing in the sink. And he threw in three cucumber slices just for fun.
He spent about a half of an hour filling the cups with grapes and water and pouring them back and forth and dumping them back in the sink. He had a great wet time!