Prior to decorating our [graham cracker] gingerbread houses Ryan helped the boys develop their plan including a legend showing a total for [ supplies ] each candy. (note: the boys didn't have to follow this plan...just got them thinking). You'll notice above Hayden drew a peppermint circle and wrote 13, a candy cane and wrote 2 and 14 next to a gumdrop.
I remember staying up late one night to prepare goodie bags for Hayden's birthday party. It was a bug theme and we had many different bug stickers to divide amongst the bags. Ryan, who was in the thick of his graduate work (to his defense) actually paused for a moment to share an algorithm we could use to divide up the various bugs. I quickly reverted to my tried and true method, one for you, one for you, one for you... etc.
