Preparing for Christmas

We decided this year Alex might enjoy helping make sugar cookies. We tried getting her to help cut the dough out with the cookie cutters; however, she was not remotely interested in that. She did, though, enjoy the decorating part (especially the icing). We gave her the tub of icing just to see what she would do. She started by just sticking her fingers in it but quickly decided that was taking way too long so she picked up the tub and put it right to her mouth. She also thought shaking the colored sugar onto the cookies was pretty cool! You can tell which cookies Alex decorated because you can't see the icing through the all the sugar! What a blast! It's so much fun to be able to do these things with her now as she getting a little older. We even took her to see Santa which we thought might not go over well. She suprised us though. As soon as she saw him she was yelling "Hi Santa" and she had no problems sitting on his lap. As we walked away, she just kept calling "Bye" "Bye Santa". She did great!