Landon has been super anxious to decorate a gingerbread house. When I told him yesterday that it was finally time to decorate it, he said, “Does that mean tomorrow is Christmas?” :) I think part of the reason he was so excited was that he wanted to eat the candy.
Here are a few pictures of our decorating event:
Here’s a few others of the boys reading some Christmas books:
Last Saturday, we went to cut down our Christmas tree. I have been wanting to go to a Christmas tree farm since we moved here three years ago, but this was the first time we made the time to do it. It was a lot of fun.
They had a duck pond in the middle of the Christmas tree farm. Landon and Davis had fun seeing the geese and the ducks, although Davis got a little nervous when they would get too close to him! He would let out a nice little girly scream. Landon thought it was funny when they would peck at his boots.
Santa was also there in his sleigh. You can see from the first picture that Davis wasn’t too thrilled about sitting on his lap. So, we had Landon, Davis, and I all sit on his lap. There’s a nice band of shade over my face, so maybe we can pretend I’m just not there. Santa was really nice and asked Landon what he wanted for Christmas. Landon told him a teddy bear. I think that was because he got a teddy bear from a santa at a Christmas party last year. Santa told Landon he would get him a couple of surprises too. Landon was pretty excited about that.
Landon was trying to be a Christmas tree in this picture. You can see his arms sticking out. The other picture is us searching for just the right tree.
We finally found the perfect tree. Shane cut it down while the boys wandered through the “forest.” Davis especially liked sticking his boot in the gopher holes.
When we got home, we turned on some Jim Reeves Christmas and decorated our tree! Landon did a great job putting the ornaments on. After, we could see where he had worked – there were a bunch of ornaments all grouped together at Landon’s eye-level right in front of the tree. I’m glad I didn’t rearrange things though, because both boys have since rearranged the ornaments many times on the tree. It was a fun time!
For Thanksgiving, we went to Ashland. Mom had some delicious food, of course, and made everything go off smoothly as if she does this everyday. Landon made some great place settings with everyone’s name on them too. Stacey, Mom and I had quite a bit of success with our black Friday shopping, and I think we even got everything we wanted to. Stacey and I always laughed because Mom would make friends with all the people in line while Stacey and I would run around the store bringing stuff to fill the cart. We didn't go quite as long as last year - just from 5 to noon instead of 3, but it was still pretty tiring! Stacey took some great pics of our family for our Christmas card, so it was nice to have that done too. The most fun was just watching Landon, Davis, and Kallie all play together. Kallie learned Landon's name pretty fast and seemed to like to follow him around. She and Davis has tons of fun with Grandpa Landon’s old marble game. I think they did that all day every day pretty much. They would both just stand there, keeping the marbles going pretty constantly between the two of them. It was a great vacation and hard to come back to real life!
Davis definitely likes to be the star of the show. On Monday, I walked in to the lobby at preschool to pick up Landon. Waiting there were about ten other parents to pick up their children. As we walked in the door, everyone turned to look at Davis, at which point he stuck out his tongue and blew, making a lovely noise for all to hear. I’m not quite sure what possessed him to do that at that moment, but it sure got a good laugh out of everyone there. I think he was a little embarrassed after.
At dinner, he tends to want to entertain more than he does eat. Here are some silly pictures of him tonight at dinner, and one silly video.
And here’s the video.
I’ve been recently informed by my brother David that I am apparently breaking several blog rules.
Rule #1: If you have two kids and you make a blog post, pictures* must be included.
Rule #2: Words should take up less space than the pictures*
Rule #3: Make a blog post at least every 2 weeks.
*Pictures can be replaced with video. If the video is longer than the time it takes the average 6th grader to read the text then it will fulfill rule 2.
So, with that in mind, I’ll be brief, as I only have a few pictures. Last weekend, Shane’s brother Kelly and his girlfriend Chantee came to visit us in P-town. We cut down a tree, ate some delicious food downtown, admired the view of the city from the Pittock Mansion, and saw Multnomah Falls. Here’s a few pics of our adventures:
(Two more guys later and some more strategic cuts and we finally got the tree down in the right direction. Phew! I had to leave to pick up Landon from preschool so I don’t have any pictures of the final tree-falling excitement.)
