Tree trimming, cookie baking, house building

It has been a while since the last post.  So much has happened.  The sippycup gang has been rather busy.  We trimmed the tree.   Jennifer and one of her girlfriends, Karen, made cookies with the kids.  We also built a gingerbread house.  

Alaric had his hands full with trimming the tree, as Rhiannon wanted to hang all of the ornaments and could only reach the lowest branches.  Rhiannon did have a blast putting the sprinkles on the cookies, though now we are going to be finding sprinkles until summer.... sprinkles everywhere!

     

Building our gingerbread house was a fiasco.  The icing was a little thin, so glueing the house frame together was sketchy, but finally it worked.  We let the design up to Alaric and Rhiannon and they did a pretty good job of decorating the roof and the front of the house, worked very well together, and Rhiannon got pretty sugared up on confectioners sugar.

    

Totally Dr. Seuss, if you ask me!