Making and Decorating Cookies

We made and decorated sugar cookies as one of our Advent Calendar activities.  Ryan loves to help in the kitchen.  He loves to measure, pour, and mix anything and everything.  He loved making cookies, but was pretty impatient while to dough remained in the fridge to get cold and firm so we could roll it out.  Decorating cookies was so fun.  Lillian just ate frosting, and Ryan decorated most of the cookies himself proclaiming "this one is beautiful" after each one was complete.  On a side note, I used meringue powder instead of egg white in my icing, which worked out so well since Lillian ate a small bowl full!!  We are planning to make some more for Santa on Christmas Eve.