Fun with Gingerbread!!

Last Wednesday while Christmas lights were being put on my house, I helped the kids make gingerbread houses. We made them from kits and I had a very hard time getting the gingerbread walls to the house to stay together. Everyone had their own house to decorate and they all turned out very cute and each had their own different style. I will have to post the rest of the houses after I can get my kids to let me take a picture of them with the houses they made. After making gingerbread houses Madison wanted to help me make gingerbread men. Yesterday Madison cleaned the kitchen so we could make gingerbread men. Madison had so much fun helping me make the dough and cutting out the men. We told the story about the gingerbread man that ran away saying "run, run, run, as fast as you can! You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man." I told her that she needed to keep her eyes on the gingerbread men while they are cooling down or they will try to run away. Madison laughed and told me that they can't run away because they are cookies. We had so much fun making cookies together. Do you like Maddy's new glasses? I think she looks so cute in them! She lost her old ones so we had to buy her two pairs of glasses. One pair to wear and one to leave at school so she will always have a pair at school if she forgets to wear her glasses. As you can see Maddy doesn't do very well at wearing her glasses. Lexie finally decided that she wanted to put decorate her gingerbread house. Jaclyn helped Lexie put the house together and decorate it. They were very creative with their house and they made a cute little Christmas tree out of marshmallows to go in the front yard. Their house turned out really cute! I didn't get a picture of the rest of the kids with their houses but I got one of all the gingerbread houses together.