OK, it's a little odd, but my cousins Jeni & Glen have a tradition of making and decorating gingerbread houses after Christmas. Usually the sweet construction activities occur on New Years Eve, but this year to fit everyone's schedules it was a few weeks later. No matter! We have found that if you ask kids (big and little) if they would like to play with frosting and candy for an afternoon, the answer is always "yes!," no matter what day it is. Probably would work in the dead of summer too...
Jeni baked up a subdivision's worth of gingerbread walls and roof sections, made up some "spackle" and we all got to work. As usual, it's a comedy of errors trying to get the houses to stand up straight, or stand up at all, sometimes. Then comes the fun part- candy decorations.
We tried to keep Ciara and Aiden's candy consumption to a reasonable level, and after awhile they did get bored of construction and switched to playing with Ciara's toys. I, on the other hand, ate WAY too much candy and had a serious tummy ache on the drive home. I don't think I have felt that miserable in a long time... you think I would have learned that lesson when I was three, huh?
The finished products!
3 comments:
Nice job everyone. Love the aprons, Andy and Micah.
Grandma Chris
The one all the way to the right is the best!! It has the most decorative candy. I probably would have been sick from eating all that stuff too.
That's Carrie's. Aiden helped with that.
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