Grace making her version of sugar cookies!
Ellie decorating her sugar cookies!
It's always fun to have Ellie and Grace come to help me with Christmas baking and a sleepover. Their favorites are the sugar cookie cut outs, so we were challenged right off with finding the cookie cutters. The container holding them was no where to be found, but we did find some extra cutters in the drawer so Ellie enjoyed making Christmas trees, angels and snowmen and stars and even Bob and Larry from Veggie Tales. And of course the sprinkles were the most fun.
It was a little more of a challenge with Gracie, as she can't have any wheat or dairy products as they causes her hearing problems, so we substituted coconut oil for butter, rice milk for milk, rice flour for wheat flower and dark chocolate chips for semi sweet chocolate chips. It's amazing how many things actually have milk and wheat in them. And Grace is real good about knowing what she can and can't eat. It's been quite educational for me too. I asked Amy what I could use in place of coconut oil as I couldn't find it shopping at Jewel. Coconut oil is the oil of choice as it is solid at room temperature as is butter and margarine. The cookies actually turned out good and Grace was happy eating them.
It's interesting the difference in the girls personalities. Ellie is more quiet and laid back while Grace is a talker and has that motherly instinct of wanting to direct Ellie in what and how to do things. Ellie takes it all in stride. It will be fun to see how God uses each of them and their gifts and personalities.
It's fun to see how Grace changes from year to year. What a sweet young lady!
Ellie is becoming a lovely young lady! Changing so much each year.
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