C is for COOKIE

We decorated gingerbread cookies after the Carol of Lights on Friday night. These are dairy case cookies that already come in shapes! I LOVE THEM! I'm not so good at cookie cutter cookies, but I really want to have the decorating experience with Patrick. These cookies are perfect! He's really been into gingerbread this holiday season.
Some of his gingerbread men and women were pretty Picasso-esque. And he loved piling on the red gel icing and little M&Ms and making baseballs with the round ones. And he was decorating with his left hand. If this keeps up no catcher or quarterback he'll be, but there's always first base.
He was very proud of his cookies. This is a gingerbread man with crooked white chocolate chip buttons. We took all these to Jean's - our sitters - for the kiddos this week. Jean said they LOVED them. I asked Blaise if he liked the cookies and he said he had a Muffin Man - like from Shrek. I just love how their little minds work!
He wanted to go help Papa J in the yard on Sunday but didn't want to put on his shoes, so he grabbed Doodah's orange fuzzy slippers. And what did he want to play with - the snow shovel! He ran all around the drive way with that shovel.
He's also been very into his $5 train set, that now somehow only runs backwards??? This is him making a tunnel for the train.