Kitchen helper

Sierra loves to help in the kitchen now. Her favorite task is emptying the dishwasher. She holds the different items and we walk over to where they go and I put them up in the cupboard. Of course, some of the things go in drawers or lower cupboards and then she can put them in herself. At first she did not like giving up things once she had ahold of them, but she is getting the hang of it now, so when we get to our destination, she hands what she has to me to put it away. Now the hard part is when the job is over. She does not like it when there is nothing left in the dishwasher to put away, and she also has a hard time understanding that sometimes as soon as we finish unloading the clean dishes, we start loading dirty dishes into the dishwasher. That does not go over big.

Yesterday we were at Grandma and Grandpa's house making almond butter in their machine. Sierra really liked helping to pour the nuts into the spout at the top.