Today we held our third annual cookie decorating party. It was a blast. That is, it was wonderful those few moments when not one of the eleven children in my house was crying. Those moments were fleeting and most of the crying emanated from my children. Anyhoo, at least a general hush fell over the crowd of children when they first started decorating/eating the cookies.
As in the past, the night before our party I baked dozens of sugar cookies in various shapes and sizes, and prepared royal icing in various colors. The children were then left to the creative part of the enterprise: icing and sprinkling the cookies with various decorations.
It's always interesting to see which children are into the decorating and which are into the eating of the cookies. In every picture of Calder from the decorating part of the party, he is eating. Not decorating, but eating the cookies or the candy that was to be used for decorating the cookies. He's a funny guy that Calder.
In contrast Milo, like his friend Gracen, was very focused on decorating cookies. Nary a word except "pass those sprinkles" or "I'd like the orange icing" exited Milo's mouth during the half hour or more that he sat decorating cookies.
In all we had a lot of fun. The grown-ups got to decorate cookies too, which is always a nice creative outlet. And Zola got to hang out with her friend Chloe, which brought smiles to both of their cute little faces. More pictures from the afternoon of cookie madness are here.
1 comment:
What a fantastic party! So colorful for the kids and the grown-ups too. A terrific tradition chez Weinberg.
P.S.The closing picture of Milo and Zola is melt-in-your-mouth!
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