Graham Cracker Houses

Today we decorated "gingerbread" houses over at the house of M's good buddy, Sarah, from school. Since our gingerbread wiz is off in China, we made do with graham cracker houses for this holiday season. As with last year, Matilda was really only interested in eating the candy. She placed maybe 4 pieces of candy on the house. The sprinkles got a bit more attention though, and she did manage to FILL the chimney with 1.5 bottles of sprinkles. She & Sarah also managed to cover the entire downstairs of their condo with the small round rainbow sprinkles; at one point I discovered Porter even had sprinkles on his face! I don't think he ingested any but who can say for sure. Here's Matilda's final product (aside from the mountain of blue sprinkles, I placed most things on there with her directions): While he missed out on the candy feast, Porter did get a treat of his own. Sarah's mom gave him an icy cold pacifier when she heard he got a new tooth this week. Before I could explain that we've never given him a pacifier she popped it right in his mouth. He was quite pleased with the whole experience. She also made him a frozen celery stick which he enjoyed even more and is a genius teething tool. It will be on my grocery list for tomorrow.