On December 17th Fredel (family friend) gave us all of the fixings for Landon to make a gingerbread house. Landon did really well putting icing and decorations on the house. He also enjoyed eating decorations that he didn't put on the house.
Landon decorating his Gingerbread house
Landon proud of his Gingerbread houseLandon likes trains a lot, and with the holidays there were several things around town to see that had trains involved.
Greg's mom (Grandma) took Landon to a huge train display at Northpark Mall where you can watch trains. Landon liked seeing Thomas and Percy the best, but liked seeing all the trains. The next time he saw Grandma he said we're going to see trains again? And so they got to go see them again.
In Grapevine there is something called the North Pole Express. My mom (Grammy) bought tickets for us to go to this on December 19th. It's a real train that you ride on. They read Twas the Night before Christmas on the train, you sing Christmas Carols, and then Santa comes through to see all of the kids. Greg, Grammy, Landon, Kasey and I all went on the train. Landon was pretty tired because he didn't want to go to sleep the night before, but we all enjoyed it. We accidentally dropped our camera on the cement and it didn't make it. Grammy and Gramps decided to get a new camera, and so we are using their old one which is the same camera that we had.
Grammy, Landon, Mommy & Kasey getting on the North Pole Express
Landon's expression watching Santa visit all of the kids on the train
Santa coming back through on the train
The 4 of us on the North Pole Express -12/19/08We made cookies from scratch for Santa this year. Greg made the dough from scratch, Landon and Daddy cut out the shapes for the cookies, and then Mommy and Landon decorated the cookies. We had fun making them, and we're still enjoying the ones we didn't put out for Santa.
Landon and Daddy making cookies for Santa
Mommy and Landon decorating cookies for Santa
Landon proud of his cookie decorating