Gingerbread Houses

We made our standard gingerbread house kit this year. I have one word to describe the experience-MESSY!

This was Peter's first year to help, and he doesn't hesitate to get in there. You can see a good share of the frosting ended up in his hands and on everything he touched. All the candy he touched first went in his mouth. Some of it then made it to the house. Some it still was pulled off the house to once again enter his mouth. The candies were then once again put back on the house.

Peter definitely had his own ideas about decorating. He is responsible for the candy sticks on top of the house, his idea. It was also his idea to have them be somewhat perpendicular to the roof. When we tried to straighten them, he turned them back! Peter thought the gingerbread men that came with the kit were for eating. He ate one and let Eddie eat the other.

Eddie tried some of the candy, but he didn't like most of it. (Of course, that didn't stop him from picking it apart and trying different pieces the days after the house was done.) Eddie was curious why cheese was included with the kit (it was shredded coconut). Eddie took note and appreciated the different things Ben and I did to decorate the house. When we were done decorating, Eddie just went in and took a bite out of the side of the roof! Okay, I thought. Let's all do it for a picture!

We had fun, and everything/one got clean once we were done. The house, however, stayed looking rather messy!