Cookie Cutters

We just discovered the best kids toy ever - metal cookie cutters. Ever since Jacob found my ice cream bucket full of them when I was making sugar cookies this past friday, that is all he has played with. He knows what all of them are (except the moose is a giraffe and the unknown animal with hooves and ears and a tail is a hippo, though I think it might actually be a donkey). Yesterday he stretched one out and I couldn't even tell what shape it was. I carefully reshaped it and it turns out it was the ACTUAL giraffe. I am amazed at how many hours he has spent playing with these things. He lines them all up in a standing position, then he lies them all down, then they go for walks, and yesterday the camel was jumping on the couch. Today the "Man" (gingerbread man wearing a santa hat) was playing in the fischer price barn with Fillmore (the bus from Cars) and the cow from his nativity set. As part of the gift from his sunday school teacher after their Christmas program on sunday he got two plastic cookie cutters. He gave them to Daniel because they are not as fun as the metal ones, apparently. This is actually okay by me, because I think the metal ones are a little too sharp for the baby to play with. I must remember to wash them before I make cookies again, especially since they were used with the playdough. Though I don't think I will be making sugar cookies again anytime soon, maybe even never. They were an epic failure. It was so epic I don't even want to talk about it. My sister makes great sugar cookies so maybe I will just hope she makes them every Christmas.

Hippo-Donkey & Moose-Giraffe