Peter was assigned to bring the pies for Thanksgiving dinner this year. He found just the right recipes for apple, pumpkin, and pecan pies. He even tweaked a couple recipes according to how he thought they could improve. Then he made a shopping list of the things we didn’t already have on hand.

And off we went to the grocery store to gather ingredients.

Check that list.

He thought it would be way more fun if his cousin Hannah could come over to help him bake. So she did. And it was.

They ran the kitchen like a couple of professional bakers, with minimal parental intervention. In fact, I even left to run to the library at one point, and when I returned, all six pies were out of the oven AND…this was the big surprise…the kitchen was perfectly cleaned!

The proud bakers.

The hungry bakers.

The eager audience.

A little too eager.

Can you blame them?

Here’s a video of the action: