One of our favorite traditions is to make sugar cookies to leave for Santa. The kids love to be apart of the whole process - mixing the dough, rolling it out, using the cookie cutters, watching them bake, frosting them, and then applying sprinkles.
Zach is really getting big, I can hardly believe how much he is able to do all on his own. He was able to frost the cookies all by himself this year - a bit step up from last year. He loved doing the sprinkles and was so meticulous to make sure it they were very evenly spread out on each cookie.
Hailey is still working at her fine motor skills, so her Dad was kind enough to help her with the frosting. She was able very insistent on helping with the sprinkels and needless to say, her cookies were very well covered!
And of course the best part was taste-testing the finished product! Yummy sugar cookies!
While they were working, they each made 2 special cookies to leave for Santa. These are the cookies they chose all arranged on the plate we left for him.
Another of our favorite traditions is opening 1 gift from Mom and Dad. Since they got pajamas from Nana and Papa the day before (which we had to wash and wear again) they got slippers this year. Zach got Spiderman and Hailey got Dora. They were so excited and had to change right into their pajamas and put on their slippers.
After these fun activities, we settled down for the reading of the Christmas Story from the scriptures and talking about the true meaning of Christmas. The kids were very attentive and seemed to understand what we were talking about. It was a very fun day and the kids went right to sleep when it was bedtime. They really are good kids!
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