Fun One on One

After a long work day, dinner and baths, Evan went to bed and Brennan and I had some time to hang out by ourselves. Bryan was working the school dance and the house was to ourselves. Brennan had seen those Wilton Haunted House Gingerbread Kits at the store and had been asking to do it. So, I had picked one of those up this evening and thought it would be a great project for us to do together. And it would be a perfect decoration for our Halloween/Birthday Party, too.

Brennan had sooo much fun and, well, so did I. He is such a neat kid to hang out with. He says the funniest things and has some really great ideas and creativity. Now, of course, he did want to do the haunted house exactly like the picture on the box. But he was so fun to watch as he discovered he could make patterns with the candy, explaining exactly where he wanted the icing and what color and how it should look, etc. He loved watching the powdered colored icing turn from what looked like white to orange when we added the water to the mix and the blue powder into black. He kept shouting "Mommy, this is AWESOME!" First of all, I don't know where he learned that word - awesome - but he was really using it tonight. It reminded me that he is growing up so fast (he will be 5 in only a few days)!

I think our finished project turned out perfect and our time together was to be cherished. It won't be long before he won't want to do those fun projects with me.

Finished project and the artist/designer

We tried to take the picture of ourselves.

And I thought this one was the best.