Valentine's cookies

What sweeter Valentine's activity is there than making cutout cookies? And, with a new chocolate cutout cookie recipe too--you can't go wrong!

Anna loved watching Kate decorate hers--I think Anna gets even more joy than we do from watching Kate "grow up" and being able to do more and more of the things that Anna does.

But, her attention to Kate didn't last long--she had to dig in to the decorating herself!

One spoonful for the cookie, one spoonful for me...

If you didn't get icing in your armpits, you obviously didn't enjoy cookie decorating enough...

And, the final products! Its so fun to see how much Anna is growing up and wants to actually "design" her cookies instead of just dumping as much icing and sprinkles on them as possible.