My Little Martha

Project One

Hannah decided that she wanted to make some Christmas presents this year. She thought that she should share her favorite thing in the world (candy) with some of her favorite people, so we got out the cookie sheets and went to work. First things first: sample the ingredients.

"This one's still wrapped. How am I supposed to eat it if it's still wrapped?"

She actually did a great job of putting the kisses on the pretzels, as long as she had a piece in her mouth and a backup in one hand. (She tried biting the kisses before they went on the pretzels, but I promise none of the final product had Hannah cooties.)

The project was a great success; I was a little amazed that she was able to do it and not just throw a huge fit when she couldn't eat EVERY piece of candy (there are a lot of fits in our life these days). Unfortunately she did manage to eat more candy than her little system was used to, so a few hours later we had some pink, gooey throw-up to deal with. I think she'd say it was worth it.

Project Two

We had some friends with older kids over on Christmas Eve to decorate gingerbread houses. Again, I wasn't really sure that Hannah would be into it (other than sampling the candy). She napped through most of the actual decorating event, so my mom and I worked on the house for her (not that you could detect a difference in skill levels).

She made a beeline for the dish of candy as soon as she saw it, but when Grandma showed her what to do, she really got into it.

The gingerbread man turned out with a Picasso-ish feel, probably due to my challenges with the bag of frosting:

And, of course, the different varieties of candy all had to be sampled.

Hannah and her friend CC happened to have matching hand-me-down Santa dresses, so we tried to take an adorable Christmas picture in front of the tree. Clearly, they were not into it as much as we were. But they weren't beating on each other, either, so we'll call it a draw (or a Christmas miracle).