Gingerbread homework

Confession:  I like when Eli has homework.  It's typically a fun project like this:

So...we cut out & reinforced this gingerbread man.  Then we brainstormed together to figure out how he should look.  Albeit, we couldn't do that until Eli had a bowl of pretzels & hot chocolate in front of him (with Christmas music in the background).  Once we were settled in, we got him figured out.  He looks a wee bit elfish...don'tcha think?  Eli insisted upon "eyes that wiggle when you move him" and a purple nose.  He also had to have hot chocolate like us and cookies to go with that.  It's really fun to have one on one time with my Eli.  We had a lot of fun on this project--like we always do.  He's a great little man.

Upon the completion of his gingerbread man, he had to have a photo shoot.  We found a starry background in the cover of a book.

Then, of course, Eli had to pose with his finished project...whose name slips me.  It was definitely not in English.

He had to see his picture, then wanted to take another...

Both were pretty darn cute.  :)

Lingering thought of the day:  I need to make sugar cookies & hot citrus punch in the very near future.  Unless I can get my mama to come do that for me... Gotta go scheme now!