Jack went to school on his big day, so I wanted to make some special cookies for him to take to his friends.
I mean really, how hard can this be.
I have cookie cutters.
I bought some sugar cookie mix, some icing and some sprinkles.
No problem, right?!
Wrong.
Let's first start with a tired, pregnant mommy who needs to get Christmas cards done the same night to get 50% off and free shipping.
Oh, and did I mention none of this got started until almost 9:00 that night because of a family dinner?
So here's how wonderful my husband is- he offered to make the cookies and cut them out while I worked on Christmas cards. Then I would come and decorate them.
He did awesome! What he was even more excited about was that he had extra dough to construct a huge "J" cookie just for our birthday boy!
The first batch comes out of the oven and here's where the disaster begins. (are you noticing that this is where my part begins?)
My pregnant brain bought cake icing to put on the cookies.
Ummm, cake icing doesn't harden like cookie icing.
Oh wait, that blue icing I got is cookie icing!
I never said I was an artist, or a cookie decorator.
They looked like CRAP!
But truthfully, we were having so much fun! Steven and I haven't laughed that hard in so long. It will really be a night that I won't forget!
The sad part was, in all our laughing, we forget to set the oven timer and the "J" cookie got burnt to a crisp! Daddy was so upset.
We laughed at how Jack's teachers would be "judging" our cookies, but oh well, we loved our little man enough to make the darn things!
Until I tried to put them in the container...remember, cake icing doesn't harden, and cookie icing needs to harden overnight. (note to self)
Well, we thought the icing looked horrible before, trying peeling wax paper off the top.
By this time I WAS DONE!
I finally sent Steven to Walmart at midnight. He came home with some chocolate chip cookies and I repacked them in my cute little container.
Off Jack went to school the next day with his birthday snack.
This best part was, when I picked him up that afternoon there was a note attached to the December newsletter-
Attention Parents- Please remember to send only store bought baked goods to school for special snacks.
You've got to be kidding me!
With Jack's love for all things choo-choo, it was obvious where his birthday party should be-
Enter Pops with some stand up heaters which made it a little better.
I loved the #2 cupcake railroad!
So did Jack, except he only cared about eating them!!
Grammy and her favorite boy staying warm!
Jack and Jagger getting in some coloring time!
PRESENT TIME!
Jack was spoiled with trucks, tools, books, trucks and more trucks!
After presents it was off on the trolley to freeze our @##&# off, I mean ride around town!
Jack loved it!! He sat with Pops while blowing his train horn and beep beeping the entire way!
Check out Jagger trying to stay warm!
Despite the cold, it was a great day!
There is nothing in the world like watching this joy!
Happy 2nd Birthday Jackson!
Which prompted some pretty big OH WOWS!
We played for a long time before dinner.
I could watch him do this forever!
Then after dinner, we headed out for some ice cream, where Jack ended up eating mom's fries and mom ate Jack's ice cream!
My Precious Boy,
But truthfully, we were having so much fun! Steven and I haven't laughed that hard in so long. It will really be a night that I won't forget!
Until I tried to put them in the container...remember, cake icing doesn't harden, and cookie icing needs to harden overnight. (note to self)
By this time I WAS DONE!
The Big Boy Bed!!
I LOVE the chalk/magnet board.
He also loves his little table and chairs- thanks Mimi!
Here he is...all ready to hit the streets for some trick or treating.
Out first stop was at Aunt Lindsey's, and I think our lollipop count was only 2 when we left there.
We hit Granny's next and this is where our total lollipop intake soared from 2 to.. ummm NINE!
Daddy and the Lollipop Lion
After Granny's, we stopped at Mammy and Pappy's and then headed home. We did some trick or treating on our street, Mimi and Pops came over and we handed out candy at the house.
Can't wait for next year when we have two little ones to torture... I mean dress up!
Jack WOULD NOT ride the ponies! I was kinda bummed because I thought for sure he would love them and he did great on them last year! But we of course could have rode on the tractor all day!
(Sidenote- look at his hair, oh how I miss it!!)
and, this year it was decided that pumpkins were for throwing, not picking.
I'm not going to lie, we left a few busted pie pumpkins in our wake!
Ummm- this year we thought it would be fun for Jack to go down the big slide- not something he attempted his first trip. Well it was pretty high, so mom decided to go with him...
not such a good idea 6 months pregnant. I had to pretty much push us down the entire way or we would have just stayed in the same spot...nice!
Clowning around with Mallie and Granny
It was a great day! We did miss our Grammy though! She was with us last year and it just wasn't the same without her!
