Christmas Cookies

This Christmas holiday has been extra special since Avery is old enough to enjoy so many fun things! For example, she loved making and decorating DeeDee's Tea Cake Cookies (aka Sugar Cookies)! She is the sneakiest cookie dough eater I have ever seen. She can distract with one hand stamping or decorating while the other hand is stuffing globs of dough into her little mouth! I would tell her not to eat any more so she of course asked over and over "more bite?". The funniest part was how she "added" her sprinkles. She would take a pinch of sprinkles out of the bowl then act like she was going to sprinkle the cookie, however, she would also get a pinch of dough then eat it! This went on as long as I let her decorate her cookies. I didn't get a final picture, but needless to say, her cookies had a few holes. We did glaze some of the cookies and added more sprinkles and she too took part in this, however; that was just too much of a sticky mess for the both of us so I didn't get a single picture. But you can imagine how much she enjoyed it as well as how much more she ate!

The "ah, can I eat it?" face...

Clever way to sprinkle...Look ma!
What a beautiful mess...
Oh look, she's eating more dough...

We also have an Annual Christmas Craft Day with the gals in my family. This year we each had our own different projects to tend to, sooo, who else to take pictures of but Avery working on her project. She made some beautiful Christmas frames to stick on the fridge. This was the perfect activity for her since she loves stickers!Nani and Yaya helping the project along...

DeeDee is finally feeling better and was able to join us this day!

Nanny was feeling good as well, eventhough she just had skin cancer removed from her nose and was having dizzy spells.