Wednesday, December 05, 2007

My girls like to party all the time (posted by Torry)

So I spent some time last week doing my other job (full time student is job #1, but assistant to the POLO co-chair is job #2) all for what turned out to be a pretty cool party. As Heather predicted, the graham cracker gingerbread houses turned out to be a big hit, and not just because of the vast amounts of candy at that table that were easily in the reach of even the smallest kids. Elaina ate about half the M&Ms in the bucket (the little baby blue thing there) and crashed hard from a dizzying sugar high (a low-altitude orbit sugar high) in the car on the way home. However, that crash resulted from the 5 minutes that I watched her like a hawk and kept her away from chocolate. 5 minutes later, she was back on another sugar high (from the chocolate she ate after I got tired of following her) and we struggled to get her down for a nap.

She had a lot of fun decorating this house, and it turned out pretty cool, but she really just wanted to eat the candy rather than build the house. Unsurprisingly, she also can't figure out why we have this candy-covered house on our table and we just want to look at it, not eat it. Let's just say there are some gumdrop fences on the property that are in need of mending.

1 comment:

Ruitman Family said...

That looks like so much fun! We made a gingerbread house last year with Audrey and what a project! Just trying to keep her from eating it---I think that's all she thought about until we finally threw it away. We can't wait to see you!