Halloween Sugar Cookies

Today Coralee, Jecca's mom, sent us a big bag of sugar cookie dough and 4 different colors of frosting, so that we could make cookies with the girls today. She even provided Halloween cookie cutters - a bat, witch head, ghost, moon and small and large pumpkins.

The girls had A LOT of fun and it was a wonderful change to our mundane lives these past few weeks. Here are some pictures:

We baked the cookies in the morning before bath time, lunch and naps. Here is Kaelin helping Jecca cut out the cookies.

Though she may have had more fun just flinging around flour. :)

Hailey started playing with small bits of dough. First she was rolling them into balls (which she usually does with playdough), then she was making pies (copying her sister).

I loved Hailey's face in this picture - and the fact she is covered in flour - face, nightgown and arms.

We started frosting after nap-time. Thankfully we had this fun project waiting, because Hailey woke up CRABBY!

Kaelin worked very hard on her first few cookies. We have never seen her try to make them look realistic. It only lasted for a few -but here is her first pumpkin.

Yep Hailey is licking her knife (side note - it is a kids' plastic IKEA knife =harmless). Her idea of frosting cookies.

Now that she has eaten all the frosting for the cookie - time to eat the actual cookie.

Attempt number 2 - it went about the same :)

Hailey is telling me she is all done here, but it looks like she is saying, "What Mess?".

Close Up of the Messy Face

Kaelin had SO Much fun - she was actually a little upset when the cookies were gone

(though I will admit that Jecca and I were ready to be done).

These are the 5 cookies that Hailey started to frost/decorate, and instead licked clean or ate.

Here are the 2 that actually made it through Hailey's process.

I frosted them and she was the decorator.

Here are Kaelin's finished masterpieces. The first few were simple and realistic. Each one after that became more mounded with frosting and sprinkles. Only the brave will eat these cookies. :)

Here are the cookies Jecca and I plowed through. There were a few creative in the beginning. But then it became frost and sprinkle.

All in all it was a fun activity. We were very thankful to Coralee for providing the supplies :)! To finish the day, they took an evening field trip with Jecca to visit her Mom, Grandma and Aunt. They took a plate of cookies with them (of course), and came home with candy corn and apples.

Jecca is even staying the night tonight as Justin is on his first business trip since my surgery (he will be home tomorrow). The girls are excited that Jecca is sleeping over and will be here when they wake up!

We are so blessed by Jecca in all her help during my surgery and these weeks of recovery - and thankful to her family and Uncle Chris for sharing her with us.