Okay so I just uploaded a million pictures, but all with good reason. Every year since I was 7 years old we have made Christmas cookies with my Nanny. And now that I have a daughter, YAY, she gets to continue the tradition. These cookies, are not really made to eat as much as they are to play. LOL, later you will see why. And no one really eats them in my family but yet each year my Nanny still proudly displays them at our Christmas Eve dinner to show what a great time she had with her grandchildren and now great-grandchildren.
Saturday we were the first ones to show up. It was 8:30 and my Nanny decided to let Brittany get down and dirty before everyone else arrived. And boy did she!
She thought it was allot of fun to play in the flour! We did Thanksgiving cookies too but I dont think we used much flour with those.
My Nanny was trying to teach her to press down and wiggle and then you would have your little bear or angel shape cookie and then we cook them. Yea she understood the wiggle part but was much more interested in getting dirty.
At one point she was coughing and put her hand over her mouth where the entire bottom of her face was covered in flour, and then she rubbed it in her hair!
After we cut them out we cleaned her up a bit so she could run around but she decided to throw a little fit because I wouldn't let her play in the bathroom! Bad toddler!
My Nanny then convinced her to sit still long enough to paint some snow flakes on her toes. She really liked it and I was suprized to see her sit for so long. Later she did some on her fingers but she ate those off! lol I hope the paint wasn't toxic!
There were allot of Grandkids and Great-Grandkids show up around 9. This is my cousin Anna's daughter Carmen. She is kind of a Momma's girl and wont talk to anyone else but her Mom. Its kind of funny. But slowly she is interacting more with us and with Brittany.
This is my neice Maci, making her ugly face! It is pretty hideous. Behind her is my cousin Anna!
This is my neice Makena, she is making the crazy eyes! LOL
Brittany sitting like a big girl eating her banana. Trust me, this didn't last long and she spit the banana out on the floor.
Here is our attempt to take a nice group photo with Nanny and all the great-grandkids. As you can see, it was short lived.
Then once the cookies were out of the oven we proceded to decorate them. Nanny makes her own icing from powdered sugar, milk and food dye. The kids ate more of the icing then anything! It was pretty funny and the cookies were basically just smeared in frosting.
This is what Brittany looked like after she was done "decorating" the cookies. Covered in frosting from head to toe. You can bearly tell but she had it all over her legs and feet.
Maci and Makena decorating cookies.
So I had to strip her down to clean her off.
And wash her in the sink.
After that we went to my mom's house for more family gatherings and then off to Jeff's grandmothers to make candy. I LEFT MY CAMERA at my mom's house like an idiot so didn't really get pictures of the rest of our day! But it was LONG.
We had a good time though and I think Brittany really liked it too! We go back on Christmas Eve so I will take some pics of the cookies, which I completely forgot to, and then see how many people actually eat them! heh heh
