Little Pizza, Big Helper

Last night Allie and I had our first real making dinner together time. Since Jake was out riding, we set out to make little pizzas which are really just english muffins, spaghetti sauce, black olives and cheese baked in the over. One of my favorite quick and easy meals... especially for kids.

I put a chair up by the counter so she could stand on it and let her put on the olives and cheese. I think it literally took her 5 minutes just to do one, but it was so fun to watch. She is a HUGE fan of olives like her mama, so of course she'd put an olives slice on, eat 2, put another on, eat 5. This went on until we ran out of olive slices and I had to cut more. Then it was time for the shredded cheese. Put a couple pieces on... eat a couple, put on one more, eat several more.

It was a lot of fun for both of us... until I took her off the chair and put it away because as a rule we don't stand on chairs in our house. She was pretty mad at me for that, but luckily was easily distracted watching the pizza cook.