Easter Cookies

First a few random pictures ~

Meg giving Jack a piggy back ride. It's one of his favorite things to do - he especially loves it when she bounces him. I do NOT especially love that part as it gives me a heart attack watching her do it because he always comes so close to falling off her back . . .


A beautiful picture of Beth that captures her personality perfectly :) . . .


Megs and Kylie . . .


Last night we made Easter cookies for family home evening. I had the kids help me roll out the dough and cut out the cookies, then we took the rest of the dough, divided it into 4 sections and gave each child their own cookie dough to do whatever they wanted with it.

Kylie rolled hers out just like I had done and used the egg shaped cookie cutter. She had a bit of a problem with the dough sticking to the rolling pin.


Megan and Beth spread their dough out with their hands and used our big Easter bunny cookie cutter. Jack pounded his dough into a pancake.


After creating his pancake, Jack ate half of his dough - all at once.


After the cookies cooled, the girls changed into old t-shirts (yes, I should have thought of it earlier, but flour is easier to get out of dresses than food coloring) and we frosted our cookies. Each of the kids frosted their own cookies (or batch of cookies in Kylie's case).


Megan helped me frost the rest of the cookies.


Kylie, Beth and Jack decorated them with candies after Meg and I put the frosting on.


The kids with their finished products :)


On the Megan-front, no news today. The specialist's office returned my call and told me it would be Thursday or Friday before they got the results of the lupus panel. The pediatrician's office called and said they should have the results of Friday's blood tests by tomorrow. They redid the strep test (LOTS of fun), which was, of course, negative, and they drew blood for a CBC (MD), an iron panel, a leukemia test, a chem 7, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a few others. Megan is still complaining of abdominal pain and a sore throat, but the pain that was in her arms and legs is now in her wrist, armpit, and knees. Her fever is gone, but she has a horribly stuffy nose. She seems to be much more emotional than usual. I just wish we could figure this out so I could stop the pain.