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...