Gingerbread House, 2008
Last night was the night to build the gingerbread house for 2009. Actually we needed to build two, one for William and Walker’s house, and one for Karsten’s.
The house above is the one William and I put together last year. I dressed the photo up a little by using Flaming Pear’s Flexify Mirror Ball. I love this effect. It looks like it could be a tree ornament.
This year the other two little boys are old enough to participate, so I baked a casserole of lasagna, so we could be fortified for the task, and invited the whole gang to come over to participate, or just to observe construction. Next year I think the three little boys and I can handle it on our own, but this year I wanted help available, to minimize the chance that grandma would be run over by a gingerbread house! It’s not easy to concentrate on spreading icing while six little hands are trying to stick gumdrops in it at the same time. I made a rule that no architectural detailing could be eaten until everything was finished. I didn’t expect that rule to carry any weight, but, surprisingly, it did! No one wanted to run out of construction materials.
I think the boys loved it. I was a little busy trying to sprout eight arms to keep up with their six, but I was aware that there was a lot of laughing, singing of Christmas songs (Walker has an amazing repertoire), and being silly. I was happily amazed at how well they worked together, and not one of them fell off a chair or the counter.
Construction gets underway.
Trying to keep the icing flowing fast enough for the boys to add candy.
Ready to put candy in the icing the second it's applied!
Walker might be destined to be a codes inspector.
Karsten has an eye transplant.
William thinks Karsten had a great idea.
Quitting time! Walker gets ready to go home, wearing his great new hat!
Gingerbread House, 2009
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