Gingerbread House

It was a messy, sticky, sweet and tasty process. But we did it! We built & decorated a gingerbread house! Caleb "got it" this year and really did a great job decorating. He especially loved to build the little gumdrop fences. Madi was not the most efficient builder, seeing as how she caused a good deal of destruction to the house. First, there was the wall that was split in half. Later, the whole house was in danger of collapse after Madi chose to tweak it a bit while it was drying. Speaking of tweaking, she slowly but surely attempted to pluck and eat every piece of candy on the house. Fortunately, this effort was thwarted when I moved the house to a relatively safe resting place - the mantel. And there it still sits this very day.