Also on the tradition list at our house: Frosted Christmas Cookie Cutouts. Xandra and Theia assisted me in carefully measuring, dumping, and mixing up some dough for the cookies. After avoiding any major catastrophes and getting some usable and edible dough, they busily set to work with rolling pins and cookie cutters in hand cutting out the cookie shapes.
Theia's effort resulted in making a large mess and then eating her dough ball. Xandra's efforts also resulted in a large mess with her eating some dough and producing some recognizable Christmas shaped cookies. She was able to roll the dough out and cut the cookies herself. She only needed assistance transferring the cookies to the cookie sheets, otherwise the product was like Theia's, unrecognizable.
After baking the cookies we let them cool until Joe came home. After dinner, I frosted the cookies and he assisted the girls in decorating with sprinkles and candy. They immensely enjoyed this and were happy to put the sprinkles on one by one if given the opportunity.
A little video clip of the evening fun:
We shared the finished product with friends from MOPS, neighbors, and our Awana teachers. Xandra and I gobbled up a few, too, before they all went out the door.
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