This is one of my favorite pictures lately! We had a blast the other evening playing twister. As you can see, it got a little hot and Claire decided to take her pants off to play!
We spent the afternoon making more Christmas cookies. What other time of year can you eat cookies everyday without someone asking questions?! Claire has become such a wonderful baker. She began learning how to bake before she was one year old from Grandpa Larry. He would be so proud of how far she has come, especially with cracking her own eggs and not getting any shells in the bowl!
Claire measured all of the ingredients by herself and even mixed the dough. Pretty soon Jeff and I are going to get kicked out of the kitchen!
After some attempts on her own to roll the dough into balls, she decided to delegate that task to Dad while she rolled the balls in the sugar.
Finally, no one can place the Hershey kisses on the cookies as good as she can so this was her job alone!
Ahh, the amazing "chore chart"! Claire decided today that she wanted to have more money. So we discussed options and came up with a chore chart. We have one side of things that are expected and she does not earn money for, in fact if she doesn't do these things, she has to pay us $0.10 for each thing she doesn't do daily. These include things like putting your shoes away when we come home, hanging up your coat, putting your dishes in the sink after eating, etc. Then, on the other side we have chores that she can do extra to earn money. These include things like sweeping, mopping, and vacuuming, doing the dishes, doing laundry, leading prayer at night, feeding Belle each evening, etc. This evening she kept asking if she could sweep, mop, and vacuum! Of course I said yes!
If only her desire to do these things could continue...I would be one happy Mommy! We will see how it goes but day 1 was a huge success!
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