Gingerbread House Fun

Last night the boys put together a gingerbread house. This is an activity that we do every year and the boys love it! We had a bit of trouble with putting the house together (I didn't let it sit and harden before they started putting stuff of the sides) so Eric had to hold it while it was drying but now it looks really cute and the boys can't wait to eat the candy from the sides!

This is Zane's side of the our gingerbread house.

This is Andrew's side!

We have cut the time they spend on the project considerably. For one thing, Zane doesn't quite have the patience that Andrew did at his age and he could have cared less about how it looked in comparison to the picture on the box. Andrew this time was just excited to do the project and he knew that he was going to be able to watch Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer after he was done. Andrew has spent up to 2 hours working on one of these things! A little incentive speeds the project right along!

In a interesting side note, we did watch Rudolph last night and I don't remember the last time Eric laughed so hard at a kids show. He claims that he had never seen it before. I don't know how that is even possible since they show it every year but it was a kick to see him giggling with the boys!