The day started with breakfast and baking cookies. Once the cookies were cool, the real fun began!
When the Little Bean is involved, Christmas cookies are not restricted to green and red or even to Christmas themed decorations. Sophia insisted on pink icing, valentine, Easter, and Halloween sprinkles, as well as anything else she could see in the pantry that looked shiny or glittery. The Husband, ever efficient, set up an assembly line process with the cookies and kept talking about "knocking these out" and getting everything completed in a timely manner. Soph picked up on his terminology but didn't really understand what it meant. She proudly told her father she was "knocking them out" when she was whacking the bottom of the sprinkle jars to make them come out faster onto the cookie.
This was the first year Hank was able to actively participate in our cookie decorating tradition. He seemed to enjoy it and even got the hang of shaking sprinkles onto the cookies. That got a bit boring after a few cookies, so he started to shake the sprinkles onto the table and then eat them.
After shaking sprinkles on the cookie and the table before eating them, he decided to cut out the middleman altogether and just eat the sprinkles straight from the jar.
This is why we will not be sharing our Christmas cookies with friends and neighbors. There is Beany DNA on all the cookies, sprinkles, and icing. Whether is was licking sprinkles off the cookies (Hank), licking ones fingers and then going back to decorating (Sophia) or licking the knife to clean it between icing colors (Mama) these cookies are better off eaten by the Beany family!
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