Wednesday, March 17, 2010

HAPPY ST. PATTY's ALL!

Again not my favorite holiday, but I loved it as a kid and I look forward to making it a big deal for my kids. When I was a kid, we set traps for leprechauns, and they always left some candy, and gold behind (glittered pennies). We loved it. I remember keeping the gold forever, cause one didn't come across leprechaun gold everyday.

When Gabe is older I'd like to make things fun like that. Gabe and I got up and dressed in Green gear. We have called Daddy about three times to threaten him with pinches when he gets home, cause he's not wearing green. She helped make these fun sticker/pins that we got to wear. Then I randomly decided to make sugar cookies with her and color them green. She likes to help in the kitchen a lot, and I always let her sit on the counter and help. This was her first time with cookies. She was excited. When she saw the frosting she about lost it, she was jumping out of her chair with excitement. Here are some pictures of our green adventure. I feel lucky I get to spend my day with my sweet girl. Hope everyone else is having a pinchless day. :)



Ready to help make some cookies.

She loved the rolling out part



This is usually how I found her-trying to eat all the dough


We did a puzzle while we waited for the cookies to cool



Stopping to sample the frosting on the cookies

This is her end result-notice the bites out of all the cookies

8 comments:

Danni said...

What an awesome baker you have! The pictures are absolutely adorable! You are such a fun mom, poor Sarah Grace...hahaha! Happy St. Patricks Day! The apron is precious, Judy did a great job with those!

KBPatterson said...

Oh see now I feel guilty and should do some sort of green food. Ha. I did glitter some pennies and leave them around in the kids rooms. I told them he was looking for hidden gold in their rooms. I used glitter toe glitter but it doesn't compare to the puffy paint we had as kids. Next year!

Katrina said...

How fun! I love the cookie pictures. They made me laugh so much. The bite marks are the best. Good thing you know all of them are ok!

The Letterman's said...

great idea with the pennies, I'll have to do that one next year.

Mike and Lillian Montoya said...

Cute cute!! Having kids make it so much fun to celebrate the holidays-and continue the fun things we did as kids.

Danielle said...

Reading this makes me realize how uncrafty I am with my daughter. You do some really fun things with Gabrielle. You are such a good mom!As always, LOVE the pictures.

Grandma Krissy said...

Hey if I get a kitchenaid will a cute little girl come with it too???

Trev & Celina said...

Look how cute she looks in her green! What a good helper! I can't blame her, that's what my cookies look like when there done:)