The girls were so excited to decorate sugar cookies. They picked out all the cookie cutters they wanted to use (butterflies, flowers, and hearts were top of the list! Sorry Santa!) and we made the dough together. They always push chairs in front of the oven when we bake cookies and sit and read books while watching them bake.
Here's Larkin reading a book while she waits for her cookies--a few days before I took this picture she came up to me while I was in the middle of cooking dinner and said, "Mom, I'm ready to learn how to read. Teach me right now." I stopped everything and grabbed her some easy readers and she's been working at it ever since!
Anyway, once the cookies came out we made the frosting--and Larkin got her finger caught in the beaters! And I do mean caught--her finger was wedged between the two beaters and I could NOT get it out! We ran to the next door neighbors for help, and eventually it came out under running water. Thankfully nothing was broken--the doctor did some x-rays and said she just needed a finger splint for a few days. Larkin learned her lesson though and now keeps her hands behind her back when the mixer is on!
Look closely and you can see her finger splint!
Princess Joel and Willa enjoying some cookies after our stressful night!
We also made a gingerbread house this year from scratch! It was a lot of work but was so much fun! And thanks to the hot glue gun, our roof didn't fall off this year! Yea!!
And finally, we took the girls ice skating this weekend at Whole Foods. They have a rooftop ice rink that was just the perfect size for learning to skate! They were both nervous at first that that they might be skating on a pond with water underneath (Mom, What if the ice cracks? Will I get stuck in the water?) but once they realized that it wasn't a pond they were good to go!
Both girls caught on quickly and were skating solo in no time! I kept trying to coach them on how to skate (while holding their hands) but then realized that the best way for them to learn was to just let go and let them figure it out. They did fall a few times but didn't mind at all!
We paid for a one hour session and thought they wouldn't last the whole time, but both were near tears when we told them our hour was up. They both kept saying, "I don't want to put my tennis shoes on! I want to wear my ice skates!! Let's go ice skating again RIGHT NOW!"
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