Fall Sugar Cookies

It rained last night and the clouds have been hanging out all day long. So with it too cold to go outside and play, I thought it would be fun to make Acorn and Leaf sugar cookies with the kids. Each kid got to add an ingredient and cut out the shapes.


Elsie poured in the mix. No, I did not make these from scratch. Three reason to be exact. 1) I don't like sugar cookies. 2) It is much easier this way. 3) I was able to get this bag of mix for FREE using my coupons. Normally I wouldn't buy them, but I figured since they were FREE it would be a good thing to get for a fun activity.
Kya poured in the egg.

and Seth put in the butter, as well as helped stir it.

We used these cute Maple Leaf and Acorn cookie cutters I received from my mentor mom last year.

The finished product before we decorated them.

***My Disclaimer: I had every intention of having these cookies look very Fallish. We went to Michael's while the cookies cooled to find some appropriate frosting, gel, sprinkles, etc. only to not find anything other than Christmas and the normal boring sprinkles. So I knew I had some white frosting at home and figured I could just tint it the colors of Fall Leaves (orange, yellow, red and brown) only to find that my yellow food dye was missing. Since it was just supposed to be a fun activity for the kids, we just stuck with red, green and blue frosting.***

Painting the cookies with red frosting.

and blue

and green.

and here is our final product!

Like I said, it didn't turn out as planned, but the kids and I had lots of fun doing them together.

Mommy, I cut my hair!

Wednesday morning I mentioned to Kya that it was time for us to cut her bangs. Well, apparently she remembered this conversation and decided to do me a favor by cutting her own hair! Even though I was in total shock, I couldn't get mad at her because she was so proud of herself. I still do not have any idea how I am going to make them look better. We tried headbands, but the longer bangs just stick straight up behind the band and the shorter bangs poke out in front. I think I am going to cut them shorter than I normally would and just leave her with a small gap of hair.

As for how she got her little hands on scissors in the first place. I always keep our scissors way out of reach. The hair scissors I keep in a box with a bunch of hair bows on the top shelf of her closet and the closet has a child latch to help keep the kids out. Well, Kya has learned that if she pulls hard enough on the accordion style closet doors, that she can pop the child latch right off. I am guessing that when she did this, the box must have fallen off of the shelf allowing her access. I am just grateful she didn't try to cut Elsie's hair or accidentally cut or poke herself. I know no real harm was done and TONS of little girls have done this exact same thing. I was just hoping that it would pass over our house!