Happy Baby

Christmas is for Cookies

Nina was paging through the December Friend and came upon a page with pictures of Christmas cookies, so of course she wanted to make them. The recipe is for Greek Christmas cookies, and they are simple and fun to make. The kids rolled the dough into crescent shapes, and then rolled the baked cookies in powdered sugar. After all of that, they were scarcely interested in eating them (but I managed to tuck away a dozen or so).

Dear Santa

Nina wrote her first letter to Santa. Before we posted it, I took a photo so we could remember what it said. :)

Dear Santa,

This is what I want for Christmas please.

1. DS

2. talking baby doll

3. cash register

Thank you.

Love, Nina

(Mom, if you click on the picture it will come up big enough for you to see the words. Also, FYI, a DS is a hand-held game console for kids--a portable Nintendo. Nina will be sad because Santa doesn't bring them to 6-year-olds, as far as I know.)

Rub-a-Dub-Dub

The twinners took a bath together last night. (Satchel refused-- he wanted to bathe later, or as he says, "I wanna take a baf wayder!") But these two were so cute together. The baby would live in the bathtub if he could. LOVES his bath.

Twinners

A few days ago I put Jude in a red "Udall" shirt and black pants. When Nina saw him she got so excited because she has the same shirt. So she went and changed just so they could be twins. (And apparently she washed her face or brushed her teeth before the photos because her shirt has big wet spots on it.) Jude looks so much like Nina did at this age, they really are sort of twins. And boy, do they love each other.

Uncle Tommy Comes to Town!

Tommy came to Utah to pick up G and he stopped by our house for a little while. We went to 5 Guys and had a burger, and he played out in the snow with the kids for an hour. They loved it! Tommy wasn't really prepared for winter weather, but not one word of complaint was heard. (What else do you expect from an Army ranger?) Camie called and asked us to take pictures, so we obliged. Here they are.