Baking Christmas Cookies...Princess Style!

Gabriella was beyond excited to make Christmas cookies for Santa!

We rolled the dough out together and then began cutting out the cookies!

Love her little hands:)

Cutting out the little stars were her favorite!  And I have to say they perfect size

 little cookie if you just wanted a little bite of a Christmas cookie:)

The Princess Style comes into play here...notice how many pictures the wet paper

towel is close so she can continue to wipe off her hands...this little one does not

like to be dirty!

REAL happy as she is wiping off her hands!

Decorating with icing.

Licking the icing off her fingers.

One of her finished products...made with love:)

Santa loved his cookies!

And by the time we were done her shirt was off too as she had icing on her shirt! 

 I can't tell you how excited I am to get outside on a sunny day and take some

photos...the inside pictures, well, I'm sure you understand!

A Christmas Gift from Mei Mei...

On December 24 the doorbell rang and it was the mail carrier.  It took Gabriella

less than a minute to realize the package was for her.

She asked it who it was from and I told her Mei Mei Emily in Tennessee.  She

began jumping up and down with excitement!

She began unwrapping her presents.  First she unwrapped a 2012 pink calender

where she can color on the different pages.  She has been spending a lot of time

with her markers and coloring the calender...she loves it!!

Then she opened a Barbie Zoo Doctor kit where she squealed with excitement!! 

When you asked Emily and Gabriella what they want to be when they grow up

they will both tell you they want to be a doctor that takes care of animals.

Thank you very much Mei Mei Emily for the Christmas gifts!  We have spoken

many times how interesting it would be if the girls who began their life together

 in China, then both came home to their forever families in the United States,

 ended up back together in college sharing a dorm room and majoring in the same

area of study!  God has wonderful plans for each of their lives and we feel so

blessed that he has chosen our families to love and raise them!