An M&M Convoy

My favorite childhood Halloween tradition was ultimately assigned to my favorite decoration because of my unabashed bias.

"Decorate Halloween cookies." Yum. Yum. Yum.

The kids and I were very excited for this today. So, sick or not, I made it happen.

Even Jane, who I am convinced can taste very little with her current illness, talked all day about tonight when we would decorate her cat cookies after dinner.

I made the dough last night, refrigerated it (per instructions) and the kids helped me cut the shapes this afternoon.

After a completely well-rounded dinner of pizza (this is what happens when Daddy is away on a fancy work dinner), we got out our materials.

First we frosted and decorated (Elliot's idea of decorating was one M&M/candy corn on the cookie, 5 in his mouth):

Then we ate

and ate

and ate

and ate.

Needless to say, little kids went to bed tonight with tummies hard as rocks -- and it wasn't from fruit. It's Halloween, right?

And, as you can see from the cookies I decorated during the Halloween Cookie Massacre, I hold firmly in the belief that a sugar cookie with a little icing is the best convoy for a slew of M&Ms. My baby in utero thinks so too.