A Little Sugar and a Lot of Sprinkles!

Ok, since it's already the middle of January and I'm trying to get through all of my December pictures still, I thought about skipping the Christmas Cookie pictures. But, as I was looking through my pictures, I remembered some funny things that were too cute to resist sharing! So, December continues for a few more posts.

First of all, I obviously have not made sugar cookies enough because 1. I do not make good dough and 2. I forgot what a huge mess they are. But it's a Christmas tradition, so carry on, right?

We invited our cousins, Morgan and Mason over to help us decorate cookies. I was hoping the older influence would do us some good and make it a little easier. Which it did.
They all wanted to help roll out their own dough, so I let them. Which of course didn't go all that well, but live and learn! However, it did lead to one of the funny moments. Emily was "rolling" her dough out in front of her and I heard her say something about a turtle. I thought that was a little odd because I was pretty sure my Christmas cookie cutters did not have a turtle in them. So I looked over and saw this.
Somehow she had managed to roll her dough into a pretty good turtle shape and she was quite proud of herself.
After we baked them and let them cool (and played the Wii while we waited), it was on to decorating.
Cole started out pretty good, a normal amount of frosting and some sprinkles.
Morgan and Mason did a great job on theirs. They were very creative with their decorating. They made a baseball and a nicely frosted Santa Claus, etc. Just the influence I was looking for.
Cole continued to add sprinkles.
Emily went down for a nap somewhere in the baking and cooling part, but we saved some for her to decorate when she woke up.
And Cole continued to add sprinkles!
Seriously, his cookies were dripping with sprinkles! I wish I'd taken a picture of the finished products because there was a very obvious difference between the cookies made by the 9-year-olds and the cookies made by my kids! Oh well, they had a good time and Cole was proud of his cookies. Chad was even nice enough to choke down a few of them. (Although I think he scraped off half a bottle of sprinkles when Cole wasn't looking!)