Catching up- Feeding the Ducks and Making Christmas Cookies.

So here are the pictures I promised you of the pond near our house with the 30-40 ducks. The first day Chloe and I walked to the pond in the snow we only had like 6 inches of snow so the ducks were coming up on the path to get food. When Chris and I went with both of the kids it was after we had 15-16inches of snow so the ducks were not coming up onto the path for the food. We had a mix of crackers and birdseed to feed them. I think they enjoyed it.

Also as you can tell by the kids it was very cold outside. During the snowstorm it was in the 20's.






After our long walk to the pond the kiddos and I made sugar cookies. Chloe helped me roll out the dough and use cookie cutters to make, Christmas Trees, Angels, bells, moons, and stars. Then later in the day when they were cool Caleb and Chloe helped me to frost them. I am so glad I had the forethought to give each of the kids their own plate and knife for frosting. They both did really well for about the first 5 minutes of frosting. Then we used sprinkles to add on top, next thing I look over and Caleb is licking all of the sprinkles off of his cookie and asking me for more frosting and sprinkles. I let him use the sprinkles, then look over and see him doing a nice big lick of his plastic knife. Well that was the end of Caleb helping us with the cookies. I put a big dollop of 2 colors of frosting on his plate and Chloe and I moved away from him. He got to decorate 3 cookies for himself.
Chloe liked mixing the colors on the cookies. Many were pink and green or pink and blue. Santa loved the creativity.

Oh and when we were done with the cookies both kids got a bath. Caleb was wearing about 1/2 of his frosting on his face and shirt and Chloe got into the licking thing towards the end too. I can't blame them it was yummmy!!