Sweet shepherd boy and a cookie maker

Seth's school Christmas program was last Thursday night. They were all dressed as shepherds. Unfortunately, we weren't allowed to take pictures during the program. No big deal really, since I turned my camera on after the big performance and it was dead. Thankfully, Grammy was there with her camera to save the day!
Seth did a great job - he looked like he knew the words and motions and was participating. He had been singing one of the songs at home. A lot. So much that Luke had learned it too, just listening to Seth. I thought we might've been in trouble Thursday morning when Seth asked Luke, "Luke, are you going to be quiet tonight and listen to me sing?" Luke's response? "Yes, but I want to be a rockstar like Seth." Hmmm. But, when it was time, Luke headed to the upstairs viewing area with Grammy, Grampy and Aunt G, Uncle Matt, and his cousins. They allege that he was well-behaved.

After the program, Seth was cracking me up! He was a social butterfly! He was running around, calling everyone by name and telling them goodbye. He hugged one little girl, that I hadn't even heard of, and told her he would miss her. (Uh, you have school the next morning!) But, it was really fun to see him "in his element."

Thursday morning the boys and I made sugar cookies. We had events coming up Friday night and Sunday night for which we needed "safe" Luke treats. We used store bought dough, but we still had to flour them, roll them out and cut them out. That was all we (I) could handle on Thursday. Then Friday morning while Seth was at school, Luke and I finished them off with icing and sprinkles.
Luke very much enjoyed cleaning up the plate of extra sprinkles. He was also generous with the sprinkles on the cookies. Not sure if you can tell, but this one has so many sprinkles that the icing is actually oozing off of the cookie. I really had to let go and realize that Luke was loving every minute of this mess and (1) not care that the cookies were less than perfect, and (2) not care that this was going to a massive mess to clean up in the end!

But, they turned out okay and Luke loved them. Seth wasn't much of a fan, but he's a ridiculously picky eater anyway! More to come on our fun Friday and Sunday events soon...