Back when we were eight or nine years old and before my Aunt JR had kids of her own, she used to do a Christmas cookie baking extravaganza with my sisters, cousins and me.  She would give us each our own ball of sugar cookie dough and provide all kinds of frosting and sprinkles choices.

We each got to take home all of the cookies we made. It is one of my favorite childhood memories.

When my kids were small, I attempted to recreate this awesome event with the boys and my niece and nephew. They were 5, 4, 3 and 2 and it was a disaster. My sister and I were pretty close to pulling our hair out and I vowed that I would never, ever do that again. And I didn’t.

But today, I thought it would be really fun to let the Glambaby make cookies. I have a great small batch sugar cookie recipe and I figured it would be just enough for her to have some fun rolling and patting and marking with a B. 🙂

So I told her all the deep dark cookie baking secrets she needed.

And then we got started.

 And then we cut out some shapes.

I offered her some dough to eat early on and she said, “No”. Then at some point, she decided that eating the unbaked cookie was a good idea. And David was thrilled because “Rottmayers eat cookie dough”. LOL! 😉

Yes, Grandpops, I really like the dough. 🙂

All in all, we had a great time.

I think that remembering that she is still really little and not putting any great expectations on the activity helped to make it fun for all of us. She did a great job and she totally got the concept of what were were doing. I loved it! 🙂