Frosting!

We frosted cookies off and on all day today! We were using Royal Icing which really needs to dry between coats when you want to put something on the background color. There is neat coloring in the boxes of stuff from Martha Stewart, but there were also jars of different colored sugars which make it fun to put sparkles on spots and manes...

Everyone pretty much got into the act. Grandson Micah's cookies and his ark have multiple layers of frosting and sugars on them. His Mom said they almost look like batik.

Granddaughter Kyra is now quite a bit taller than her older sister Havela! Kyky really stuck with the baking and decorating. She's quite artistic and made some pretty detailed animals with spots and stripes.

Havela, on the other hand, does not have a sweet tooth and is not terribly interested in baking. Her ark has a strip of chocolate colored frosting on it -- the rest of the ark and her animals are plain ginger cookies!

This afternoon while Dawn and her family were at the wedding of one of her nursing school classmates, Forry and I went to the Bose shop at the Woodburn Mall and I got my Christmas present early! Last year, he had gotten me a Bose radio (which I love!) and the year we added the CD stack which can go on the bottom of it. It now plays four CDs in a row and Auntie Violet has been filled with Christmas music all evening.