Happy Thanksgiving!

After stuffing ourselves with John's homemade Thanksgiving dinner of turkey, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, and a scampi/pasta/quasi-stuffing, we decided to break open our gingerbread man kit and get to work.

Josh was so excited to hear that he had to put his hands in the dough. Until he had to actually knead the dough, which he found sticky and not very fun. He liked using the rolling pin though, and was great with the cookie cutter (although not very efficient--he spaced his men out, getting only about 4 per roll).

Gingerbread man-making is hard! They kept stretching; they stuck to the pan; they were hard to decorate in such small proportions. We didn't realize the difficulties. It will be much easier next time now that we know the tricks.

They taste terrific though!

Here is Josh kneading the dough:



Studiously applying a button:

Pleased with his work:

The final products:

Mmm Mmm good!

We hope everyone had a very nice and happy Thanksgiving!!