The Afternoon's Tools: An Edible House and Silly String

We were lucky enough to babysit little miss Jayde over the weekend. If you read this blog, you know how much I adore this girl so we (Geoff, too!!) wanted to make this afternoon very special and fun for our favorite five year old! We started of the day making a beautifully delicious gingerbread house that she was able to take home to share with mom and McLean.

Then we followed up with a trip to "the store" where she could pick out anything and everything her heart could want. Little did she know "the store" was the Dollar Tree ;) She had a blast filling up the cart with all sorts of crafty objects but favorite was a can of silly string. She spied this neon topped can the minute we walked into the store! Though she originally thought the can was color hair spray and was excited to add some temporary pink to her blond locks, she was even more excited to find out it was string she could shoot on McLean when he came to pick her up! Yep, that was Geoff's idea ;)

We kept looking out for my brother through the window and when he knocked on the door . . .

BAM!!!!!!!!!!

and that's not the end of it . . .

after Jayde's fingers got tired - Geoff went to town!! Hey, what are best friends and brother in laws for if not to add some humor and silly string into your life ;)

Yep, that's a smile in the midst of pulling the string off. He thought it was hilarious too!!

We had a blast and I'm pretty sure Jayde did too because before she left she asked my brother if she could spend the night with us!! Ahhh, my heart melted!! It's too bad we had to work and she had school the next morning or the fin would have continued!