Making Gingerbread Houses

We get to make gingerbread houses with our cousin Brookie.  She is six so we like to pretend like Lily is here.  We think that it will be fun to have a big sister.  Mommy says that it will be hard for Lily at first and it will take her awhile to feel like she is part of our family.  We talk a lot about what it must be like to live in an orphanage and how it will be so different to live in a family.  Mommy says we will have to be patient and understanding.

Our newly married big sister Meghan (mae, mae) was here from Arizona for Christmas.  She helped us make our houses and she even made one.  I (Emma) did not want any Chocolate on mine.  I do not like Chocolate at all.

Brookie is working on hers and I (Meilynn), did mine all by myself!

Emma's finished house.

Meilynn's finished house.

Brookie's house.

It was so much fun, we cannot wait until next year when we get to do it with Lily.

Aren't they beautiful?