It was the last thing I had time for today. But how on earth can you say no to those baby blue eyes pleading with you to “Please, please mom can we make a gingerbread man? I’ve never ever tasted one in my whole life!”

Sometimes you just have to make time for things like this.

Clearly he’s delighted. As we dressed the snowflakes, trees and teddy bears with frosting he kept saying “Mom you are so awesome!” Now that’s more payment than you can deposit in any bank and it lasts longer too! So with all that praise I pulled out the big guns and wrote his name on one of the cookies. He gobbled it up with sheer delight.

I decided to share his picture here so his teacher can see it. He wants so much for her to see it but was very worried with how to do that because if he tried to take it to school he might break it. (You gotta love this kid who thinks of everything.) So I told him we’d take a picture to share. You see, they’ve been reading books at school about the gingerbread boy all week. On Monday he’s going to run away and the class is going to try to find him. Friends and relatives in other states are invited to send a letter or postcard pretending to site the gingerbread boy sharing where they spotted him and what he was doing. Then they will mark those letters on a world map as they search for him. If you want to join in the fun send me an e-mail or leave your discovery notes in the comments leaving me the state where he was seen. I’ll print them out and send them in for him.

How can I not be overjoyed that I took time to make a gingerbread boy with him? Just look at those eyes!

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