Rite of passage

Do you have traditions that you find you do with each of your kids as a sort of rite of passage?  I realized a few years ago that I had a picture of each of my kids licking the beater after I had made cookies.  This became one of my favorite "rite of passage" pictures to take!  Each child is sitting on the counter where they can be my helper.These pictures usually happen when my kids are around 18 months old.  So it's the right timing for our little Addie to experience this first hand!  This picture was after she had consumed most of the dough and was actually willing to look at me and give a quick smile.

Here's Brady- I think he had just woke up from a nap to find me making cookies- hence the bed head.

Here's my Marshall- I still love his cute little smile!

This was the closest I could find off hand of Jordan. (my oldest two were at this age before I had a digital camera and laptop- so theirs are a little harder to find)

I had to scan Kenzie's out of her scrapbook!  We had a bunch of her pictures on a hard drive that crashed years ago.  I still have it hoping some day I can recover the pictures. Luckily we had printed out a lot of the pictures.

Awe, see the years go....... *tear*