Iris and her gingerbread house masterpiece

Iris has finished her gingerbread house!  It looks fantastic, in my proud mother’s opinion.  I was in charge of the frosting and Iris was in charge of pretty much everything else.  I wanted to make some green colored rice crispy trees and shrubs, but we decided to just go with what we had.

It took me a few batches of royal icing to get the hang of it and to figure out the right consistency….but as I said earlier it’s been a good learning experience for both of us and next year’s house will be even better.  The most important thing is that Iris had fun decorating and being creative.  Here are a few more pictures.

This is the back of the house.  I think the dove chocolates in the middle look like skylights, what do you think?

A close up of the front door.

And for a Tavie and Kira update, we are officially speaking in sentences now.  A few days ago Tavie went up the stairs and Kira lost track of her.  She turned to me and said, “Where’d Tavie go?”  I said, “What did you say?” and she said again, quite clearly, “Where’d Tavie go?”