Welcome to the World

My co-worker's mother-in-law ordered these cookies for her co-worker that just had a baby boy. She gave me creative license for the arrangement which is always fun. Even better, she thoughtfully asked that I include Baby Jonathan's older sister, Adaline. So I got to include some pink girly cookies in the order. Win win.

For all those that aren't fans not the NBC TV show, The Office, you can tune out now.

For all those that are fans of The Office, this was a win win win. And Oscar didn't even have to wear a t-shirt with a picture of babies playing musical instruments.

Special thanks to Lilaloa for her fantastic cookie cutter, which made the "Baby Boy" cookie. And thanks to SweetAmbs for her tutorial on tufted cookies, seen on the "Baby Boy" cookie. It's hard to see in the picture, but it looks like a checkerboard and makes the cookie a little bit puffy, in a good way.

Pitter Patter of Little Feet

The day before I made these cookies, I was helping in the church nursery. Once a month, Chris and I help with the toddlers (ie very busy rough little boys). One this particular day I lucked out and got to hold one of the newborns, Baby Evelyn. Evelyn's brother Nate (Chris' lovingly refers to him as the nursery bruiser) is one of our regulars and he's quite a character. Nate's about 2 and uses sounds instead of words when he talks, for example "choo choo" instead of train. Anyway back to the bright and shiny newborn, I rocked Evelyn while Nate tried to climb on my lap. This little baby girl is going to have to toughen up quick to keep up with her big brother. She had the tiniest pink feet and they inspired these baby feet cookies.