Gingerbread Babies!

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We made the dough late last night and this afternoon we got to baking and decorating our gingerbread cookies. We made snowmen and the classic gingerbread men and women.

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Brennan mostly ate all the candy pieces. He would put them on first, but promptly remove them and pop them in his mouth. The only mess to speak of was sticky hands so HOORAY!

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Tristan mostly dictated to Daddy what colors to use and watched with glee as he did all the work for him. He did stick a few jellybeans and shake some sprinkles on top though.

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Noah didn't want to stop decorating. If would have let him go there would be 20 layers of icing and candy buttons on these cookies.

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They turned out pretty darn cute. Josh and I decorated some too :) The red icing was really runny for some reason... like sweet ginger blood. Fun fun fun... in a dark kind of way lol.

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As promised here's the pictures of our packed tree and our homemade wrapping paper!

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Comments

Khristine said…
cute!!! at least ur boys can bake, i can't! lol!
12/22/2010 12:07 PM
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