Gingerbread Houses, Paper Castles, And Fairy Princesses

...Continued from yesterday:
      On Saturday morning we made another round of gingerbread houses.

     When I packed the gingerbread kits to bring to my mother's I worried that my grand children might not be interested in making more gingerbread houses, as we'd already made one on my visit with them last month in Los Angeles.

   I needn't have worried.

      After we finished the gingerbread houses I gave the girls each an early Christmas present,

...animal face sticker books,

...from which, after they used the stickers to put faces on the animals, they tore the pages out to make the walls of a pretend castle.

   Since they'd already built themselves a castle, I decided to give them another early present, princess dresses I'd found back in November on a Halloween clearance rack,

...which they spent most of next few days dressed in,

...often using their wands to cast magic fairy spells on their Grandpa.

To be continued...