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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

On Two Wheels!

Yesterday Zoe hit another milestone. She learned how to ride her bike without training wheels! In about an hour she figured out how to balance on just two wheels and how to start by herself. She is now working on turning. As you can see from the videos it doesn't always go as planned.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Christmas


We headed to Fresno to spend Christmas with my parents. The kids had a great time spending quality time with Baba and Papa. Our family tradition is to allow the kiddos to open a present on Christmas Eve. Each year I get them a pair of p.j's and a new book. Here are Zoe and Noah posing in their new Christmas jammies in front of Baba's tree. Will I ever get a with both of them looking at the camera?

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Christmas Cookie Monster


Ready to Bake
Mmmm...making cookies is GREAT!

I think I should eat a little more!

Oh, this is how it's done.
So proud of her snowflake cookie
Just a little bit frustrated...the dough wasn't cooperating.

Let me try

Is there anymore cookie dough?
Yummy!
The top left tree is the cookie Noah did by himself.
As you can see the sprinkles container hit the tree a couple of times.

Zoe has been begging me to make sugar cookies for at least a month. I kept putting it off and saying we would do it while I was on vacation. Apparently I'm in denial that I have to go back to work TOMORROW, because I just got around to making cookies with the kids yesterday. How can it be that winter break is already over!!
Now, Zoe knows the process of making roll out cookies. We've done it many times in the past few years. Noah on the other hand, took making sugar cookies to a whole new level.
I sat each of them down at opposite ends of the table. I floured the surface in front of each of them and gave them each a small ball of dough and a rolling pin. I guess I failed to mention the actual process of making sugar cookies. So, in Noah's mind, making cookies meant we were eating cookies right then and there. I turned for one moment to help Zoe get started, and he had consumed about half of the raw cookie dough. (Not to worry folks no eggs were in the dough) He finally got the gist, but I honestly think he ate at least 3 cookies worth in dough.
In the end it was one of the more entertaining cookie making moments...never a dull moment with the Macknicki kiddos.