Night Before Christmas

It's a good thing that Grandma and Grandpa's house comes equipped with fun things for the boys to do! Today Grandma got out the Play-Doh for the boys. They had a great time playing wth the dough and all the cookie cutters, rollers, and knives.

We have playdoh at home too, but it is too much of a hassle to bring it. So it's a good thing that Grandma has some for them to play with on our extended visits.

Turns out the playdoh was just practice for what we were going to do later! Auntie Em saved some gingerbread dough for the boys to make cookies for Santa!

They got to help roll out the dough and pick which cookie cutters they wanted to use.

Amelia didn't help, but she thought the whole thing was interesting! What a happy, cheerful girl. She is definitely like the sunshine that lights up the room.

Ephraim even got a turn making cookies. He had a lot of run using the rolling pin and helping push the cookie cutters into the dough.

Isn't Auntie Em great to help the boys make cookies? She is awesome!

We used up all the dough and there were plenty of cookies for Santa that night. The boys were very excited for Christmas to come!

One funny story about this Christmas has to do with Ephraim's present. At the last minute he decided that he wanted some batman playset instead of the Siddley the Spy Jet from the Cars 2 Movie that he had been asking to get for months! So of course I had to deter him. I told him that the playset was too big and that I told Santa that it would not fit very well in our house. Of course that made Jacob ask me how I told Santa not to bring it. My immediate answer was that I sent him an email. So when the boys were asked if they wanted to write letters to leave for Santa, they said they didn't need to because Mommy already emailed him! Haha! What smart boys.