This year like every year David and I are lucky enough that we get to spend Thanksgiving with both of our families. Lucky for us my family celebrates Thanksgiving on the Saturday after and Davids celebrates on Thursday. I was so excited for Thanksgiving this year because Dutch is finally old enough that he gets to get the good food and he loves mashed potatoes and gravy so I thought it would be great. Well it ended up that at Davids parents house Dutch fell asleep about 20 minutes before dinner was served and slept for close to two hours. He completely missed the dinner and by the time he woke up he was so distracted playing with his cousins that we couldn't get him to eat a single thing. On the night of Thanksgiving we came home and set up all of our Christmas decorations. Lucky for us Dutch still has not shown a lot of interest in our Christmas tree. He wasn't tried pulling off any of the decorations, he pretty much just ignores it. Which makes me a little sad that he isn't excited but I think I would rather him ignore it, than destroy it. The only thing he really truly enjoys is a playskool nativity set that his Grandma Lazenby got for him last year. There is a button on top and when it is pushed it plays silent night. Dutch loves to push buttons and he keeps it going all day long. Our Christmas tree looks pretty good except for the fact that we have to decorate it from two feet up. Here is Dutch on Thanksgiving playing at his Grandpa and Grandma Lazenbys house. Dutch playing with his nativity set. Our Christmas tree all decorated. The picture really doesn't do it any justice.

Sunday Mornings

David and I don't have church until one o'clock on Sundays. We really don't like going to a late ward because Dutch is up early anyways so we don't get to sleep in and then it messes with his nap times. But we have discovered one of our favorite things to do with Dutch on Sunday morning to pass time until church. We build a huge fort all over all living room with blankets and the couch cushions and Dutch's toys. Dutch loves crawling in and out of the fort. We can play in that forever with him. Its so much fun.

Halloween

We are about to get started, Dutch is still eating. Here's Dutch loving his sucker. For family home evening on the Monday before Halloween we bought a pumpkin to carve with Dutch. I tried my hardest to get Dutch to put his hand in the pumpkin and play with the seeds but he just wasn't interested. What he did love was the sucker that his dad gave him. Once he had that sucker in his hand nothing else mattered. We tried handing him a handful of the pumpkin seeds and pulp but he thought it was gross and didn't like having his hand dirty. For Halloween our ward had a Trunk or Treat the night before. We dressed Dutch up in his adorable monkey costume (borrowed by Tara, Thanks) and he looked so cute. Although his head was a little to big for the it. He didn't really understand what was going on, when we were walking around and getting candy, until we opened up a Kit Kat bar for him to eat. He loved that. We didn't take our camera with us to the Truck or Treat because we were planning on getting all the good costume and trick or treating pictures on Halloween. We were going to take him to my parents neighborhood and let him trick or treat. However that didn't end up happening, due to the fact that Mom and I sat in a hour and a half of traffic on our way back from the mountain, uggg. But Dutch enjoyed crawling to the front door and watching the kids in our neighborhood as they came to collect their candy. The before photo! I've been saying for awhile that we need to cut becauseDutch's hair but I haven't really wanted to I didn't want him to look like a toddler yet, he's still my baby. But once David gets an idea in his head it drives him crazy not to do it right away. So on Saturday night David pulled out the clippers and we gave Dutch his very first haircut. We just set him in our bathroom sick and let him play with the water and eat crackers and he loved it. He never cried or complained one bit. I don't know if you can really see the difference in the pictures but I can certainly tell that he got a haircut. It use to be long enough for me to play with it and now I can hardly grab it, it's so short. Dutch playing in the water, happy as can be. All the hair we cut off. Now he has very short hair in the back.