Making Christmas cookies

We were able to spend the afternoon together today. We decided to put up our Christmas tree and make Christmas cookies. Claire was not too interested in helping with the tree decorating. She tried to put some of her toy fruit in it and soon after that, lost interest all together. The cookie making was a different story however. Claire loved being able to help make the dough, roll it out, and place her cutouts onto the pan. After the cookies were finished, she surprised us by how long she stayed interested in decorating the cookies. She helped with every single cookie and made each one unique with different sprinkles. If we tried to help her so she didn't put too many on a cookie, she would say "excuse me, I can do this myself". I guess she told us! We made some wonderful memories today!

Claire had such a blast measuring the ingredients and pouring them into the bowl. She loved it when the flour made lots of dust when she dumped it in!

                                       Enjoying a taste of the cookie dough with her Daddy!

                  Claire loved to help cut out the shapes and place them on the pan. She did a
                          great job all by herself. We only had a few that were missing parts!

                          I frosted the cookies and Claire got to decorate them with sprinkles
                                                 she picked out at the grocery store today.

                              We made some awesome Christmas cookies. Claire gave them
                                                        a "thumbs up" after her first bite!

We just wrapped up a busy and unforgettable week. Grand....MA and Grand....PA were down to hear some of Claire's new stories. Even though they just saw her in August, she has changed quite a bit. Sheila and I were lucky enough to have a few days off together so we made the most of it. We went to the zoo (of course), to Moody Gardens, and up to Dallas to visit family. Claire did very well with all the late nights and long car rides. The only times she acted like a true 2 year old was when mom wasn't in sight. Hopefully we can get her back into her routine with little trouble.

Huff N Puff N Puff N Puff

Laundry

Claire wanted to help with laundry yesterday. I told her she could help put clothes in piles before we folded them. It started out with her gentley putting them in the correct piles but changed to her thowing them to speed up the process. She created more work but it sure was fun watching her help out. 

Our crazy, busy girl!

Claire is very big into imaginative play now. She loves to dress up with her jewelry and walk around with her purse and play shoes on. She keeps busy "shopping". She also likes to pretend she is an animal, usually either a dog or a frog. She pretends to be a frog and hops up the stairs and the other day she was pretending to be a dog outside. She would go on her hands and knees next to Presley and put her face into the grass trying to smell it like Presley does! She makes us laugh so hard some times! We can't wait for Grandma and Grandpa to get here in only one more week so they can share in some of the crazy fun we have every single day!

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