Sugar cookies and tumbling class

Tatiana and I used cookie cutters to make sugar cookies.  She really really wanted to use the Easter sugar cookies her Gram and Grandpa sent home.  I made the dough the other day and then put it in the fridge.  I don't know where my roller is so I used a trick I found online.  Put the dough between sheets of parchment paper and then mush with your hands until the thinness you want.  Then put in the fridge.

So when Tatiana started we got to go straight to using the cookie cutters.  At first we had trouble with the cookies sticking.  But then Scotland told me a trick that they used in the Walmart bakery.  We peeled one of the papers off.  Laid it on the table and put a little floor on top.  Then put the dough on the flour, and then peeled the top paper off.  It worked really well.  Eventually we fell into teamwork where she pushed the cookie cutter into the dough, and then she'd had it to me, and I'd push the dough onto the cookie sheet.  She made sure that we made plenty of each shape.  She also ate lots of the dough.

When the oven dinged I started to cook them.  They cooked really fast, so they got a little more brown than I'd have liked.  But they still tasted good.  Then Tatiana got up on her helper tower and decorated the cookies.  I'd let her pick out one of those containers that either had sprinkles or colored sugar.  She picked the colorful sugar.  She'd put a little of this color and a little of that color on one cookie.  So, they mostly ended up multi-colored.  She also dumped the sugar off of a few to "do them again"  I tried to explain that we had lots and lots of cookies.

I put the cooled cookies in a corning pan and the cookies made a mound in the middle of the pan because there were many of them.  There was also a sheet of cookies on the counter that had been too warm.  When I woke up the mound had turned into a hole, so I guess Scotland really really liked them.  They do taste good.

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Earlier in the day, JJ came over to play.  First they played in the backyard, and then they came in.  He saw the legos and wanted to build with them.  Tatiana had lots of fun, and Scotland said she ran around a lot.  Then at 4pm she had a trial run of a the tumbling class.  She really liked that.  I met them there, and then we went home for a bit while she relaxed.  Then we went back to the studio for the dance class.  It was Parents watch day so Scotland got to watch the tumbling class, and I got to watch the dance class.  Scotland stayed home and worked on the insulation during dance class.