Thanksgiving Weekend

I am a little late on this post, but we have been busy. For Thanksgiving we went to the Seifert's house like we have been doing almost every year for the past nine years. I am super bummed that I did not get a family photo of the three of us like we did last year. Oh well, but thanks to Kristin for taking this picture of me and my favorite little man.

He had fun on Thanksgiving eating his turkey and everything else on his plate. His favorite though was grandma's buns. Yes, Andy and I stayed up until 1am the night before making two batches of these buns and it was oh so worth it.

On Friday I did not do any shopping, well, maybe a little online. Instead we spent the whole day outside playing in the backyard. That is the big man's favorite thing to do these days. You cannot open that back door without him or he freaks out. Plus, I enjoy it too because then he is completely wiped out at night from all the fresh air.

After a day of playing we headed to see Santa, which was an epic fail. The big man was not a fan and actually freaked out, so I had to get in on the photo with him. 

I decided it would be fun to make and decorate sugar cookies with the big man. Yes, I do know he is 17 months old and will not get it, but I figured it would still be fun. I made them from scratch and did not use the dough from one of those plastic tubes...gross! Once the cookies were baked I was showing the big man how to decorate them. He was excited so I put one on his tray so we could "decorate together." I really didn't expect him to decorate, but thought it was still something fun to do. Of course he did not decorate, instead he grabbed the cookie and shoved it in his mouth. He loved the cookie so much that he had frosting all over him. He had two cookies and then he was on a sugar high for the next few hours. Fun!

We had to follow the cookie adventure with a fun bubble bath to get him all clean again.