Snowbound and lovin' it...kind of

Oh my we have been hit hard with snowstorm after snowstorm already this winter. It started the Sunday we got our tree and it really hasn't stopped. There was one day when it was warm enough that the snow became rain and so now we have ice underneath all the snow.

Last Tuesday and Wednesday it had been snowing non-stop and windy. Since we have such a wonderful driveway, (sarcasm) I didn't even attempt going anywhere unless absolutely necessary. Plus, whatever it is, it wouldn't be important enough  for me to risk driving in it with two little ones. So we made ourselves comfortable with our cozy fire and a little bit of everything...baking peanut butter blossoms, gingerbread men or babies(explain later), gingerbread-graham houses, lego towers and more.

Unfortunately neither cookies really turned out that great. The peanut butter blossoms have been an on-going joke since they were just about as hard as rocks. I knew my oven cooked fast but goodness not that fast. At least I can laugh at my "failed" baking and that's just because I know I can bake. :) Looks are deceiving because they look delicious but that's where it stopped.

And then Chase wanted to make gingerbread men, well a gingerbread baby to be exact. I gave him a Christmas book about a gingerbread baby and he loves it. So he was excited to make his own. Well, I ran out of ginger and we made a cocoa gingerbread dough instead of the original. He helped me roll it out and cut out the gingerbread babies and gingerbread mommies.

Then it was time to taste the cooked ones. He took a bite and gave me this look and said, "These are yucky, I don't like them." and put it back. So Chase. I told him we needed frosting and he said, "yea I will like them with frosting." Well we never did frost them because I wasn't thrilled about their taste either. But at caroling tonight someone had brought some absolutely adorable decorated ones. I gave him one and he was so excited. I made it "run" across the table and yell....

"I am the Gingerbread Baby,
Fresh from the pan.
If you want me,
Catch me if you can!"

He started giggling. It was so cute. 

Then he attempted a gingerbread house which was kind of a flop too because we really didn't have what we needed for an awesome gingerbread house but we had fun making our ghetto house as I called it. Yes, I know not politically correct but I am not political so a ghetto house we made.

In the meantime Callen was enjoying some puffs. I love watching him learn how to pick them up and make it to his mouth. I couldn't believe how fast he ate them, well until I went to get him out and saw a pile of them in his lap that didn't quite make it into his mouth.