If You Give a Mom a Moment: On the Fourth Day of Christmas

Sunday, December 16

On the Fourth Day of Christmas

on Sunday afternoon we trimmed houses and tried not to swoon. You know, because of all of the sickness in our house right now. But if I swoon, does that mean Christian will clean it up? Anyway, our babysitter last night had planned on decorating gingerbread houses with our boys. Since that obviously didn't happen, she sent us home with all of the fixings: ready-made houses, frosting, and candy galore.

Working on the houses

Aidan put some candy on his, and then decided to pick the candy off and eat first the frosting, then the candy

Aidan's finished product

Ethan's finished product

We had a fun (and messy) time!

4 people wanted to leave a comment:

Liz said...: How fun to blog the 12 days of christmas. That date sounds fun, but sad that everyone gets sick
liz; December 16, 2007 at 6:05 PM
Christie // lemon squeezy home said...: Hope you all start feeling better soon!; December 16, 2007 at 10:04 PM
Anonymous said...: Awhhhh! So fun! What GREAT gingerbread houses! I hope you all feel better!; December 17, 2007 at 2:12 PM
Jessi said...: FUN!! I love making gingerread houses! I bet the boys had a blast! Jarrett also picked the cady off and then the frosting.. ha ha..; December 18, 2007 at 11:59 AM

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