Decorating cookies

So I get these bright ideas...go to the pumpkin farm, go shopping, etc. They always work out better in my mind than they do in real life. Actually, in real life it has been more of a disaster. So today I wanted to do something fun, and I thought it would go better if we stayed at home. And I suppose it did, but some of my bright ideas are not really age-appropriate for Emma. Oh well. Anyway, today we baked and decorated cookies. I am always surprised at the things that I forget she doesn't know, but she has never decorated or made cookies before, so how would she know that you had to put the whole cookie cutter on the dough, and only once, and you have to wait to bake the cookies before you eat them.  But they are little things. Oh, and I also forgot that you shouldn't put all the bowls of icing in front of her at once. Oops. But she had fun.

'mixing' the dough: she barely touched it

except maybe to eat it

rolling was her favorite part

Emma is pushing down the cat 

that's all?

more rolling since it was her favorite.

and now the fun part....

Steven's first question? Why does it look like poop? oops.

we even got daddy to do one! he had to use his strong face on that icing tube!

if messy equals fun, then emma had a blast.

oh, and it tasted good, too

all done! (except i had to rescue the sprinkles)

see what sprinkles look like when a two-year-old does it.