Holiday Baking

We had a lovely afternoon together as a family, baking cookies and making chocolates. Jacob had so much fun. We pulled a chair up to the counter and let him help measure ingredients and play in the flour. He used the rolling pin and cookie cutters and helped shape dough into balls. We made a huge mess and had such a good time. We sang Christmas carols while we baked. And we ate entirely too much sugar. Jacob has been wired, lol. But he had so much fun. He loved eating the cookie dough, but don't we all ;)?

Jacob has been calling Shauneen "Miss Tony". He just loves Mr. Tony. It is so sweet. And Tony seems to think the world of Jacob. I am so thankful that he has people in his life that care so much for him.

So unfortunately our Christmas Eve plans were canceled because Barbie is ill. Their boys had the flu last weekend and now she is sick with it.

We baked some of my Cowboy cookies for Rick's boss. This is his last couple of weeks working for Mark, and Mark loves those cookies. I've baked goodies for the salesteam each year at Christmas and he always highly compliments those cookies. And I have cookies and chocolates to put in a basket of gifts for the Schumacher's as well. And we made a gift basket for Tony and Shauneen.

Jacob has been so sweet with Joshua lately. He is really enjoying being the big brother. Yesterday he was so cute showing Joshie a toy truck and how it worked. And earlier he knew that Joshua had wanted to sit with daddy, so he moved over so that he could sit there too. That boy is so sweet sometimes.

And again he amazed us with his intelligence today. Rick pulled up pictures of the new house in his email to show Jacob so that we could talk to him about it and help him understand that we are moving there. And he immediately started recalling specific details about the house, like talking about the purple bedroom and the carpet color and telling us about how our things will go in a big truck. So he has been listening and understanding what we are talking about.