baking whole wheat chocolate cookies with the fastest hands in the west

this child is a cookie dough snatcher! he loved helping me roll and cut out the cookies. he loved helping brush water on top and sprinkle (or dump in his case) sugar on top before baking. but in every stage of the process, he was snatching dough and popping it in his mouth (if you've ever seen ELF, it was like Will Ferrell popping cotton balls in his mouth).  other than the stress of trying to keep enough dough around to have cookies to show for it all, the project went pretty well. i mean, sanitary conditions aside - when there is a toddler assisting, all bets are off!