The Kriz Family

The Icing on the Cookies

We’ve been busy getting ready for Christmas, and although it’s been a little hectic, we are just glad to have the time off together (2 weeks!), and also glad we’re not renovating a kitchen or anything like last year.

Lukas has been taking it all in, and he is so much more aware of (and excited about) everything going on this Christmas. He’s taken on lighting up the trees and the house as his job. As soon as he walks out of his room in the morning, he turns on the Christmas trees, and uses the remotes to turn on the lights. He gets really proud of himself when he finds the right button to push to turn on the lights. “I did it daddy, I turned on the lights! Wow!” It’s pretty cute.

We also had to go out Christmas shopping for him without taking him with us. It’s funny – last year we bought his presents with him with us, and when we got them home, we left them sitting out, unwrapped, and he couldn’t have cared less. This year, we are pretty sure he’d rip open any presents under the tree, and I don’t even want to imagine the scene if he found one of his but couldn’t play with it!

So a couple days ago, we made sugar cookies, and Lukas got to help ice them. While it didn’t hold his attention for too long, he did keep coming back to the table and wanting to help. And surprisingly, it wasn’t too big of a mess either.

Stirring the icing, and, as usual, hamming it up for the camera

So serious…

Of course, we get to lick the beater before we start icing (still not too excited about really sugary stuff like this though…)

Steady, steady…