Gingerbread Fun

I had been wanting to do some fun holiday activities with Connor this year now that he is old enough.  After trying to decide what we should do I set aside a day to do all things gingerbread!  Needless to say it was a hit!  We started the morning coloring pictures of gingerbread men and gingerbread houses.  Then we read one of my favorite Christmas children's books, Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett.

Before lunch we rolled out our gingerbread dough...

 ...and cut out our gingerbread men.

 Then off to the oven they went while we enjoyed some lunch.  Carson was not to be left out on the fun day and had a front row view from his bouncy seat.

 After lunch I put Connor down for a nap and went ahead an assembled the gingerbread house so it would be ready to decorate when he woke up.  I bought our "ready to make" kit at Target and it was SO easy to use!  This was definitely the way to go.  Connor must have been so excited that he forgot to sleep so after a few hours I let him out and we got busy decorating.  It was a team effort, but he did great!  I put on the icing and he picked out what candy to add.  

He is concentrating really hard on getting that peppermint just perfect. :)  If you didn't know, sticking your tongue out allows you to concentrate even more!

Our finished product!

We finished the day by decorating our gingerbread men with icing and red hots.  Yum!

The rest of the story...

Since it has taken me so long to blog about this I can share a funny story that happened after our gingerbread day.  While I was getting ready one day I hear Cole ask Connor what he has in his mouth.  I knew Cole was holding Carson so I hurry in to see if I can help.  Y'all... he took a gingerbread man ornament of the tree and was attempting to take a bite. "Sprinkles"  ALL in the mouth!  You may notice the left arm has a few less sprinkles. :)  And I thought I was keeping it safe by leaving the glass ornaments off.