Happy Thanksgi... oh wait...

We've had a pretty eventful first week of November! We have been down to a friends house to help her set up her Christmas stuff twice (it seems to be the fad this year... to skip Thanksgiving and go straight to Christmas), we've taken down our Halloween stuff and put up our Fall decorations, and hit some sales to get more! We also got to go to our neighbor's birthday party, which always turns out to be fun! He had lots of fun playing at the park, and with all of Drake's new toys. I have washed all of his 12 month clothes in preparation for him to move up to that size. I always get kind of nostalgic when he moves up a clothing size. I kind of get emotionally attached to his outfits, so I feel like I'm being forced to move on with life when we have to start all over again with brand new clothes. Oh well. Poor little guy is having a rough time with two bottom molars coming in, so this week has also been one of much, much whining. So really... it seems like it's been two weeks.

I got a really cool idea as something to start as a Christmas tradition. We were watching a show last night where the family bakes cookies on Christmas Eve, hangs them on the tree, and they eat them on Christmas day. So, I didn't really like the way they looked on an already decorated big tree, so I was thinking of getting a 4 foot, artificial, prelit tree, and using it as our Christmas Cookie Tree! I really don't know where we will PUT it, but maybe I can rig something by the time it's really time to do that. Anyway... I thought it would be a fun tradition to start with our family, and anyone who will be around for the holidays.

Alrighty... well, enjoy the pictures of Landis!

Trying his first piece of Halloween candy.

It looks like that Hershey Kiss may have been a little too big, but he liked it!

I just thought this picture was adorable!

He's pretty much naked because he was about to get his hair cut. We gave him the chocolate and the little trimmer as a distraction. I think he shaved some of his belly hair with it :o)

His first cooking lesson. We made Shepherds Pie.

This kid could stir aaaaaaaall day long!!!

I'm going to frame this picture and hang it in my room. I love finding "evidence" that he's been somewhere in the house. And to think there was a time when it may not have been possible to experience these little blessings :o)

A VERY intense episode of LOST. I understand completely!

It's hard to see where you're going with your eyes closed, silly boy.

He looks like such a little boy in this picture!!

Playing at the park! Part of Drake's birthday party. There were a lot of very hyper children there.

He overcame the tube!!

He tried to slide down the ramp of the play equipment. He found it wasn't really very slidey at all.

Meghan (Drake's mom) let me bring Keona over to eat all the chips and cake off the floor (they just live across the street). All the babies liked watching her outside. It's Landis, Drake, and Armando.