All Set for Santa!

Hannah was hard at work preparing for Santa’s arrival!  She baked cookies for him, added some candy cane popcorn and poured him some egg nog.  She also left this cute note!  (This is where I see her French Immersion schooling coming through.   Spelling will improve with time once English is added later.)

Der Sateu,

tahek you for my geisti.  i hope you liek the eeg neug and coerks and candecne pop courn.  Love Hannah

(Interpretation)

Dear Santa,

Thank you for my gifts.  I hope you like the egg nog and cookies and candy cane popcorn.  Love Hannah

Before we left to celebrate Christmas Eve with friends she carefully placed 2 baby carrots out for each reindeer as well as spread reindeer food on the driveway to guide Santa to our home. 

She was all set and excited for Santa to arrive!

(Green) Milk and Cookies for Santa!

It wasn’t planned this way but when Santa arrived at our home on Christmas Eve he was greeted with a feast of green milk and green cookies! 

The green milk was thanks to Santa’s Elf ‘Bobble Chippey’ so since he’s now living back at the North Pole with Santa until next December, he’ll have to deal with him about that!   But, the cookies were all my doing.

When we were in Florida in November I saw a neat Christmas decorative icing package so picked it up.  We hadn’t used it so Christmas Eve day we set to using it, decorating cookies for Santa.  I was working on some last minute appetizers to take to a friend’s place that night and to family the following days so Hannah was set up near me, ready to decorate sugar cookies (thanks Auntie Norma!) for Santa.

You can see that this year she needed no help at all and quickly set about getting the important job done!

Adding many, many….MANY sprinkles!

The finished product all set out for Santa!

And since it’s fun to do this, here’s a recap of Hannah’s Santa offerings for the past couple of years.

2010  (21 months old)

2009  (9 months old)

And one final note to Mommy.  Don’t let this innocent face fool you!

Next year schedule cookie decorating (which equals eating copious amounts of sugary icing!) at a time other than 2 hours before Christmas Eve service!  Let’s just say my excited bunny and I enjoyed the service from the hall and overflow room…along with other excited toddlers!