In an effort to bring forth copious amounts of Christmas spirit, I huddled the family into the car to go drive around town and look at Christmas lights and then we came home and made chocolate chip cookies for Santa. Gene and I got some ice cream and we drove around for over an hour looking at Christmas lights in neighborhoods. We stopped by an amazing “light show” house where the lights were all flashing and pretty amazing. We then stopped by another house that had their lights flashing to the tune of Christmas music. A sign on their lawn telling you what FM station to tune into and.. well.. I could have sat there for HOURS watching it! It was so delightful.
I measured the dry ingredients into a small bowl, like the instructions on the package stated and handed Zoey a small spoon and told her to stir it.
I realized that wasn’t the smartest idea when she began to try to transfer flour into the large bowl that was meant for the wet ingredients. Flour was spilling all over the oven and it was the stuff I had already measured. Mama got smart and gave her a separate bowl with flour to play with…
She had SO much fun and this kept her content for a very long time. She was spilling flour everywhere. It was pouring onto the floor and the chair she was standing on. Her little flour covered toes were oh so adorable.
It didn’t take long for her to realize she could make a REAL mess with this stuff and went at it!
After I had the cookie dough made, I moved her over to the counter so I could turn the oven on to heat up and start baking. I didn’t want her near the hot oven while I was doing that.
She has no idea who Santa is. Doesn’t get the concept at all. I didn’t take her to see Santa this year because she is currently having some major stranger phobia and I didn’t want to put her in a frightening situation like that. I’ve talked about Santa but there is no way she gets it at this age. But we had a LOT of fun. I put a few chocolate chips in her bowl of flour and she would take them out, put them in her mouth and say “mmmm”.. Totally adorable! At one point, Gene had put the camera way and got out the video camera and she lifted the spoon full of whole wheat flour up and shoved it into her mouth and all I can say is that I am SO thankful he had the video camera out for that because it was an absolute priceless reaction. Lots of “uhhhh” sounds and tongue sticking out and frantically looking for someone to help her lol! I got her some water and she chugged it.





