On the 6th Day of Christmas...

We had a baking day!!!

Dear Abigail,

We have all been waiting for this day. On Wednesday, all those crazy cousins from the other night came over to Mimi's to help bake and make all kinds of sweets for Christmas. We learned from last year that you kiddos don't have the patience to let the cookies cool, so we went ahead (or rather Ash-ash went ahead) and made the cookies the night before. So first things first, we had to decorate cookies! Boy, did you kiddos get into it, and boy did you kiddos get into that sugar! I have never seen you eat as much sugar as you did today. You were literally spooning out icing, eating mouthful after mouthful. Not to mention your Uncle Bubba thought it would be funny to hand feed you M&Ms, since Mommy told you you were not allowed to get any more. It's Christmas Niki. That was the saying of the week. Anyway, I'll let the pictures speak the words...

Here's you getting started...

Sydney concentrating really hard...

OCD Hayden doing his thing...

Clara Lee, doing her thing!
Em, eating her thing!
Oh Emery had the tallest decorated cookie, at least until he crammed it in his mouth!
And yeah, here's Bubba hand feeding you M&Ms, as if you needed it...
And this is why we don't give you real knives...

Sarah's pretty little snowman...

After decorating the cookies, you kiddos needed to burn off some energy. We took a quick picture of all the cousins and sent y'all off to burn away.

Of course, that always leads to trouble, but you had to get the sugar out of you. Y'all played and played, inside and out. Emery decided to take a bath in a mud puddle - all boy, and we tried to get you all to eat lunch. Some were successful, others were still full on cookie and icing! While you played, the mommies made a few more goodies including brownies we thought we could cut to in shapes. That didn't work out for us, but that didn't stop you kiddos from decorating those!

Or eating them!

Eventually we were all baked out and everyone made their way home. It was a little too late to try a nap, and Mimi was watching you that nap while Mommy went out to dinner with Lynnie and Lizzy. She sent me a text at 6:30 and said you were out! Ha. You needed the rest, no doubt. And we'll be working off all those sweets for the next 6 months. That's one thing about our family, we love us some sweets! And baking day is a perfect tradition for this family! What a fun fun day. And what yummy bakers you all are!

Love you baker girl.