Friday, November 26, 2010

November 25: Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a leisurely Thanksgiving yesterday. Patti took a nap in the afternoon, Patrick spent some time working on his final grad school paper, and Patti got cancelled from her night shift so we were able to spend the evening as a family.


Will helped mama make cookies all morning. He helped stir the ingredients...




and knead the dough by hand...



and decorate the cookies. He didn't have words for what he was doing but he kept saying his version of "drawing" as we decorated one cookie after another.

They were going to be turkeys but Will had other ideas. We ended up with lots of variations on what you see here.


"Will Will" (as he is now fond of calling himself) got to eat one of his cookies today after his lunch. He nibbled a little around the edge before going for the eyes. Picture either a teen practicing to kiss on the mirror or a carp trying to eat something and that was Will trying to eat only the eyeballs off the cookie without eating anything else. It was something to see!