The making a "gingerbread-man-house"

Yesterday, my 3 grandgirls spent the day with me. H is 9, A is less than a week from being 4 and M just turned 2. With the help of our good friend and neighbor, AW and her little S who is 17 months old, we tackled the task of decorating a gingerbread house. Fortunately the cookie parts were already baked and cut into the right shapes. All we had to do was build it and then decorate it! So, after feeding them a breakfast of Cocoa Puffs, chocolate chip pancakes and hot cocoa to drink, we were all sugared up to begin!

Being the oldest and the organizer, H decided she should decorate one side of the roof and her younger sister, A, should do the other. In the meantime, M and S, each had a cookie - one a snowman and one a gingerbread man, to decorate and stand in front of the house! There were really only 2 little problems....everytime I gave M a piece of candy for an eye or button, she would quickly put it in her mouth, before I could say a word to her. And then little S, bit off the arm of her snowman. H immediately said "We can say he went to war for America and lost his arm!"

It is a lovely house and all agreed we would save it to eat on Christmas Eve. Having agreed, I must confess the 2 older ones were suspected of nibbling on the house! I think ALL 4 children were of the same mind that you don't need nearly as much candy on the house as was in the package, so they reduced the amount that actually ended up on the house...and it is still quite lovely.