Building Gingerbread Houses

After school, we headed over to Riley and Mattie Lou's to put together our gingerbread houses. The house was prefabricated so all they had to do was decorate the house. Riley and Jack worked on one together and Caroline and Mattie Lou worked on the other one. The girls, to be only 2, did a great job and did most of it all by themselves. The boys had fun but wanted to rush through it more quickly.

Both of my kids ended up in time out because they kept eating all the candy. Jack kept wanting to lick the pieces and then put it on the house. I'm sure to them it was hard not eating the candy but Riley and Mattie Lou didn't have a problem. Next year, I will have to get some extra candy for them to eat. Jack wants to buy two next year so he can do his own. This was our first gingerbread house and we will be doing one each year.

Jack licking the icing off his hands
Caroline and Mattie Lou decorating their house very meticulous The girls' finished productJack and Riley's finished productThe four of them were so happy with what they had accomplished