"Pumpkin Mad!"

Cara and I were walking around our little block and she noticed a neighbor's jack-o-lanterns. She walked up to admire them and turned around and said, "Pumpkin happy!" in her joyful, baby voice. Then she looked at another one and said, "Pumpkin mad!" and put on her own little angry face. She continued with the happy jack-o-lantern, "Pumpkin smiling! Pumpkin laughing!" So so adorable!

We just delivered some sugar cookies to LDS neighbors that moved in more than a month ago. After the delivery Joel and Eli wanted to climb on top of the car. One of the many every day objects that in their minds is really a jungle gym. When Cara saw them of course she wanted to climb up too and was mad when I wouldn't let her. She walked further down the sidewalk in front of the neighbor's mini cooper, "I want up car!" she said pointing to the mini cooper. I guess she figured it was just her size.

We made the sugar cookies from Eli's recipe book that he got for his birthday. They were so good even tho we had to substitute half of the butter with shortening since we didn't have enough butter, and Joel and Eli were so cute making them. It always makes my heart warm to see Joel having a good time doing something like that. Because there were the years when it was torture for him to participate in anything like that because he only wanted to draw circles and look at letters and numbers.

Instead of continuously flouring the rolling pin (spaghetti sauce can :o) and the cookie dough the recipe said to just put the dough between a folded sheet of parchment baking paper (which miraculously we had) and roll on top of it. I loved it. It was so much easier and so much CLEANER. It's definitely the way I will always roll out sugar cookies, pie crust or whatever from now on.