Cookies with Santa!

With Maeryn getting more and more excited about Christmas this year,

we decided to host a little cookie decorating party for all

the little ones in our cul de sac.

Maeryn helped get the cookies ready for the party... 

 

Then she took a breakfast break with Kevin.

  Some of the pre-party details...

Each little girl had her own spot at the table with plenty of icing and sprinkles,

and an elf hat for extra fun!

 We had tons gingerbread and sugar cookies to choose from.

 and hot chocolate with their choice of marshmallows

or whipped cream with pepermint chips... YUM!

 Shocker.  Maeryn sitting at the food table!

(making sure everything tasted great before her guests arrived)

 Everyone arrived right on time, and the CHAOS... I mean decorating, began!

The two oldest girls (twins) Kara and Kelsie, age 9.

Their cookies turned out AWESOME, giving me hope that this idea

is not a lost cause down the road for the little girls who's "art"

consisted more of the moms attempting to keep the icing spreaders

out of their mouths (and off their clothes), and the sprinkle

dispensers from being entirely dumped over onto the plates at once!

 Hey, they had fun though and the mess was temporary (of course

because as Kevin kept telling everyone, my "cleaning crew"

would take care of everything later!)...

 Olivia (20 Months) and her mom Meaghan

 Sophie (2 yrs)

 Maeryn's cookies :-)

 Addison (3&1/2 yrs)

 Piper (1 yr)

 After the girls finished decorating their cookies, we heard the doorbell ring

and all of the girls ran to see if was the much anticipated guest of honor...

SANTA!!!!

 Everyone took their turns sitting with Santa and telling him

what they wanted for Christmas - Sophie started it out, she did fantastic,

and afterwards she told him that he needed to take a shower!!!  LOL!

 Some of the girls were NOT thrilled about this idea.



Seeing these kiddos squirm was not helping our cause with Maeryn either,

because for whatever reason Santa is great from across the room,

but she wanted no part of the whole sitting on his lap thing...

Here's me trying to convince her he was cool.

I guess seeing that he didn't harm little 2 month old Clarke was evidence enough...

  We finally got her to as least talk to the guy, but there would be no sitting on laps!

 She told him what she wanted for Christmas and he told her to make sure to leave

out cookies with "ice cold milk", that must have convinced her he was one of

the good guys because she dove right in for a big Santa hug!

After Santa spent a little time with each of the kiddos he really stole the show

with his reading of Twas The Night Before Christmas...

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The party was a huge success and everyone had a great time.

I'm pretty sure we will need to book Santa for next year right away, 

I know his schedule is VERY busy this time of year!