Sunday, December 25, 2011

Christmas Eve

 We started our day with traditional stollen, not so traditionally made with coconut milk and soy-free margarine. As it turns out, the most important ingredient is the powdered sugar topping, so everything turned out okay.

We admired our candle-spinner, brought back from Austria when Fletcher was still in utero.
 We made gingerbread cookies - they were far more successful than our free-form attempts last year, with a few burnt exceptions.

 Dogs!

 "This one has two eyeballs and one noseball".

"This one only wants to have one eyeball".

A burnt snowman and a snowflake with eyes/Flying Spaghetti Monster for Santa.



 A glow-in-the-dark stomp rocket!

 A glow in the dark stomp rocket? Gretchen is not sure about this.

 Fletcher picked out a pen for me: "Mama likes dogs and sparkly things!"

 He also selected a sweet pair of pink shades for me.

It's a good look, right?










The classic baby-in-bumbo-under-the-Christmas-tree shot

 She was saving her best smile for the coffee table.

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