Autumn Leaf Cookies!

When I was a little girl, I loved making Christmas sugar cookies and painting them with colored egg wash. Well, it's the wrong season for Christmas cookies, so we made autumn leaf cookies instead. Even more fun, my mom was visiting and helped - grandmas make the best baking buddies!

It was a little difficult to take turns cutting out cookies, but we managed, mostly because Edward didn't get too upset that Vance kept "helping" him.

Both boys had a lot of fun painting autumn colors on the leaves.

One quick trip through the oven, and we had the tastiest leaves we'd ever seen.

Then there was nothing left to do but enjoy the sweet fruits of our labors! (Well, and also clean up, but why spoil a good story?)

Later, we hung some from a branch on our nature table.

Those cookies remain surprisingly uneaten, though the rest of the cookies were happily devoured over the following days.