Decorating our Gingerbread House

Last night, for Family Home Evening, we decorated our "Symbols of Christmas" little Christmas tree and decorated our gingerbread house. This year, Shane and I held back and let Landon do all of the decorating. He thought it was pretty fun. He decided he wanted to make smiley faces on the roof. Enjoy the pictures!

Decorating the Christmas Tree

On Monday, for our Family Home Evening activity, we decorated our Christmas tree. Landon was so excited, and he kept saying how pretty our tree was! We even put on some Jim Reeves to keep with Morris family tradition. Here are a few pictures of the tree-decorating!

Playdough Singing

This morning, while I was getting ready for church, Landon played with playdough at the table. He made a couple of stars, and before long, I heard him singing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" over and over. I got the video camera and asked him to sing some more. Here's the video I got.


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Three Crazy Boys

This post is a little late, but last Saturday, we had a couple of friends come over with their families. We were going to play some games, but the three boys running around were so entertaining that we ended up just watching them play! Here is a picture of the three boys, Jackson, Landon, and Trey, sitting on the futon.

Happy Halloween!

On Monday night, for Family Home Evening, we carved our pumpkins. Shane did one and I did one, and Landon helped with both of them. He wasn't too thrilled about putting his hand in the pumpkin, but he did like scooping it out with a spoon!

Then, last night, we got Landon all dressed up in his fireman costume and took him trick-or-treating. We met a couple other families in the ward, and headed up a street just a few blocks from our house. There were actually quite a few kids out, which made it kind of fun. Landon was pretty nervous at first, and most of the time we had to tell him to squeeze up there to get his candy. He caught on pretty quick though, and by the end, he would make Shane or me stand at the edge of the driveway so he could walk up there by himself! Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Here's Landon with the other kids - two Peter Pans, two dinosaurs, one Japanese girl, and a puppy!

Another Great Day at Preschool

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Yesterday, Landon had another great day at Memory Lane Preschool. They went to Lesley's Pumpkin Patch. When I went to pick up Landon at preschool, he was sitting down on his carpet by a cute little girl who had decided to be his friend. She kept holding his hand and following him all around It was pretty funny.

The pumpkin patch was great! All the kids chose a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch, Matt Clason took us all on a hay ride around the field, and then we fed the cows with apples. It was tons of fun!

After the pumpkin patch, Mom, Landon and I went downtown Ashland to Greenleaf to get some sandwiches to go, then to Lithia Park for a picnic. The park is so beautiful this time of year! It brought back so many memories of walking through the park in the fall with Mom, looking at all the beautiful fall colors. Landon especially loved kicking the leaves around as he walked, and watching leaves float down the creek. I got a little carried away with pictures because it was all so beautiful, so I ended up putting them in a slideshow! We walked up to the duck pond, where Landon had a blast feeding the ducks. He kept telling me he was feeding the ducks, not cows, I guess since he had just fed the cows an hour earlier. I even took a little video of it, so you will have to watch that. Landon is going to be pretty sad to get back to boring life with just his mom, with no grandma and no preschool!

Click the picture to watch the video of Landon feeding the ducks.

Putting out Fires

Today, Landon was lucky and got to go to preschool again with Grandma. It was fire safety day, and as Landon is going to be a firefighter for Halloween, he thought it was pretty cool. He watched the fireman put on his suit, crawled on the floor pretending there was smoke in the room, and best of all, blew a firehat off a cone with the water hose!