Holiday Project

Aiden's school fundraiser this year was cookie dough, so I was all over a tub of Sugar cookies. Just one less thing to do. haha (lazy much) It will make our Christmas cookie making time extra fun and all the extra cookies are going to our neighbors (def don't want a ton of them in the house).

I'm going to invite over Bella and Carlos to help out and make mini "party" out of it. Only thing I will need to get is icing since I always buy sprinkles after Christmas. Seriously why are the cute sprinkles so expensive?! I found the cutest idea to do for the kids...aprons. But why are the Christmas ones always sooo expensive?! I just can't justify spending that kinda money, even if they are used every year it's only 1 day. So backup plan make them! Perfect!!

Aren't those CUTE?!?! I'll be spending the next 3 weeks getting the supplies using handy dandy coupons, glad the stores are on my way home so I don't have to go out of my way.
Supplies
4 kid aprons- $4.99 each
brown paint- zero (already have)
paint pen- zero (already have)
3 rolls of ribbon (red, green, white)- hopefully $.99 each
12 buttons
Bella's ginger"woman" bow-I might paint this on if I can't find a cute cheap bow. Dollar Tree maybe?!
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On a different note I wanted to comment about Aiden's sleeping. We are still struggling to get him to go to bed in his bed (wants to fall asleep in our bed or on the couch with me). The devil child is gone, but now he's figured out when he coughs really bad that we go and check on him. So what does he do.....he sticks his hands in his mouth to make him cough/gag. REALLY?! We watch him from the monitor do this.

Then when he does fall asleep he will wake up like 15 minutes later in a panic, all confused, and shaking. When Wes goes in there to comfort him he holds on for dear life.  So Wes brings him in our room till he's calm to only carry him back when he's asleep (talk about exhausting). A pattern we are trying to break, but it's hard to deny him when he's literally shaking and you just want to comfort him.

This doesn't happen every night, but it seems to happen on the days we want peaceful sleep. Don't you just hate that?! We can't figure out what's going on...is he afraid (so we leave the lamp light on)...is he cold? hot?....etc. Quite frustrating since this started about a month ago out of the blue. I want my good sleeper back. Luckily Daddy has become the bedtime enforcer so if I mention "Do you want me to get Daddy???!!" makes him straighten up and at least cry in bed. lol I feel bad but when I spank him it's not the same when Daddy does it. But I'm so thankful that the statement works, because picking him off the ground when hes sprawled out throwing a fit screaming "No bedtime!" is not an option right now. There is no way I would be able to stand up with that additional 40 lbs on my back.

I'm just hoping we can figure something out soon...