How to Decorate Cookies

Bake sugar cookies. (And I do just mean 'bake', as there was no other preparation. I used the already frozen in my freezer Pillsbury kind in this case -- in fact, they had pumpkins on them, 'cause I'd bought them on clearance after Halloween and stuck 'em in the freezer. 'Cause that's how I roll.)

Mix up a couple different colors of frosting.

Fill cute little cupcake cups with various toppings and sprinkles.

Let the kids loose.

Give up from trying to stop your one year old from shoveling the blue frosting in her mouth by the spoonful.

Watch helplessly as sprinkles are scattered over every inch of your kitchen floor.

Take pictures.

Spend 30 minutes vacuuming up sprinkles and another 20 minutes to clean up the one year old.

Be grateful you hadn't spent extra time making cookies from scratch!

Someone ended up with far more sprinkles and frosting on them than the cookies did!