2012 advent : day 19

I'm really busy right now.  Making a million cookies today aided in the busy part.  Olive's 19th activity was to help me make cookies!  Here are the unedited and yummy photos.  :)



Used my most favorite and previously "famous" cookie recipe. It's gluten and sugar full, therefore formerly famous.





This is not a joke.



I assumed Olive would be eating a few of these over the course of the four events we're bringing them to.  So I compromised - they're full of sugar so I used organic whole wheat flour.  Costco doesn't sell any other organic flours currently.



But Olive just wanted a banana anyway.  She's a good human.



Pouring in the 2 cups of sugar.



Plopping in 4 cups of brown sugar, one packed cup at a time.



The butter had to cool.  It's cold outside.  Why make your freezer or refrigerator work over time?



Olive was really excited about the flour.



She wanted to eat it?



She kept eating it and giggling.  Flour.  Not the bowl of sugar.



6 teaspoons of vanilla, 4 eggs, and 4 egg yolks.  She kept pretending to drink the vanilla.



Mmm.  A million cups of sugar.



Being helpful.



I poured the butter in, all 6 sticks, without a single drip.  I'm amazing.





Olive is impressively good at pouring things.



A bit of an egg dribble.



But overall, letting her pour the liquids could have been way worse.



Careful :)



Not a very becoming photo of Olive.  But I thought I would show my flour adding strategy.  No way would either of us be able to pour that bowl in without spilling and a giant puff of flour happening.  I added a scoop at a time in an effort to minimize flour dust.  It worked!



I pushed it to it's limits.  Seriously.  Poor thing.  That's not egg on the table.. that's a tear.





Excited cookie face?



Gosh.

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a few words wednesday. { olive's favorite things }

One of Olive's favorite things is seeing large bodies of water or water towers and saying "BIG WAHWAH!!!"

2012 advent : day 18

Today we met Tyler at his work and ran through the skyway until we got to Macy's.  This was our first year visiting A Day in the Life of an Elf.

For years Macy's has taken up an entire floor with a holiday show.  Unfortunately they've done the same show for the past 3 or 4 years but, since this was our first year, it was a huge deal.  Overall it's pretty small so I could see not wanting to go again the following year.  I understand that doing an entirely different show every year is probably not cost effective.. but what happened to the props and sets from the previous shows?  Maybe they should rotate a few different themes so that kids don't see the same thing each year.  The older they get the less interesting the same thing every year will be and I'm sure parents don't really care to see it repeatedly.

Honestly, it took us about 10 minutes to walk through.  It was neat but don't go rush out to see it if you haven't already.  If you're planning to go to the Holidazzle Parade it would be something nice to do before or after - but I assume the crowds are pretty big on parade days at that time.


Photos not edited because I'm a little busy right now..

We stopped a couple of times in the skyway to look at the buildings while we were over the streets.



Wandering through Macy's.  I didn't realize there were so many floors of shopping.



There were a lot more elevators than I expected.  With really wide doors.



Tyler remarking on how many floors of shopping there is.



Down the Santaland hallway.















Tyler does a good job talking to and being with Olive while I'm being the creeper mom talking too many photos.





Struggling to not climb up into the scenes.



Caroling Christmas trees.



Olive liked the conductor.













I like this theory of candy cane making.









This is where people were standing in line to see Santa.  Olive calls Santa a snowman.  And I don't think we're really doing Santa.  So we kept moving on.



Olive admired the people in line to buy treats.



We started over again because it was so short.



And then we left.





More speedy skyway going.







I don't think I've carried Olive on an escalator in about six months.  She seemed a little confused and upset about being carried.  heh.

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