Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Holiday Cookies

I've really been looking forward to the Christmas season this year because Jovin is now old enough to understand (to and extent) what is going on with the birth of Jesus, giving presents, Christmas lights, and Santa Claus.
One of my favorite things I loved doing with my mom during the holiday season was making Christmas sugar cookies. We'd roll out the dough and cut out the shapes of snowmen, candy canes, and Christmas trees. Then we'd decorate them with frosting and sprinkles. That is a memory I wanted my boys to have during the Christmas season too.


So the other night I got ambitious and we made some dough and I taught Jovin how to roll the dough with a rolling pin and to use the flour so it won't stick to the table or rolling pin. He really enjoyed using the cookie cutters. And got carried way with the flour.


When I turned my back to put another batch in the oven Jovin was going to town with the dough. He was also really sneaky at eating the dough. Little stinker... :)
It was a lot of fun, for me at least, and I hope that it is a tradition that I can keep doing every year.

Saturday, December 01, 2007

Christmas Decorations

Well last night we finally got out the Christmas decorations. We put the tree in an area where Jovin can't knock it over and also can't pull everything off of it. It was also the only place we could fit it in our living room without it taking up the open area for the boys to play.

Jovin was a little scared at first to put the ornaments on the tree.


Jovin did finally get the idea of what was going on so he then got excited to put the ornaments on. Mayer is just watching from a distance.


Jovin doing the ornament all by himself.


Mayer and Jovin in Mickey Santa hats being cute!