The kids have been singing Jingle Bells in the back seat of the minivan since the day after Halloween. Apparently, there are no standard preschool songs for Thanksgiving, and they got started preparing for the Christmas presentation right away. So they were quite excited when the evening arrived!
Abby's class didn't perform this year, but she was happy singing along from the church pews. This series of Jonathan singing cracks me up.
He and the "Owl Class" had a good time up there.
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Christmas cookie time!
I thought we'd start some Christmas cookies one afternoon with Jonathan while Abby was napping. It made for a fun afternoon, but I confess when we got started I hadn't quite counted on 4 hours of baking festivities!
Jonathan quickly caught on to the process of rolling out and cutting the dough.
Before long he was an expert at flouring out the cutting board and rolling pin and carefully lifting the cookies.
So when Abby woke up, it was so sweet to watch Jonathan teaching her how to roll out the dough and cut out the shapes she wanted.
He's really enjoying the big brother role these days and is usually enthusiastic and pretty patient teaching and including her.
Finally, ready for the oven!
Abby was really excited to watch her cookies bake!
Next, time to make the frosting. Have you ever noticed that pouring powdered sugar into a bowl creates a bit of a powdery "smoke" effect?
Jonathan saw the puff of "smoke" and ran right off to get his construction goggles, declaring the process quite dangerous. I was so amused that I made minimal efforts to correct the misunderstanding ;)
Out of the oven and ready to be decorated.
Four hours after we got started, Daddy arrived home from work and lent a hand to wrap up frosting the last batch.
More Merry Christmas!
1 comment:
Whoa dang - this must have taken forever! It takes ME forever to make rolled-out cookie-cutter-cut cookies! Good for you, Jenn :)
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