Chatter Box

Landon is making great progress with talking. Some days it seems like pulling teeth. Here is a video showing just how fun the process is to get him to ask for juice...

Landon's vocabulary has expanded so much in the last 2 months:
Belly, Yes, Go, Nose, Ears, Daisy, Dog, Mommy, Daddy, Cookie (his favorite word), Shoes, Ball, Car, Please, Love You, Uh Oh, Bye Bye, Potty, No, Mine, Icky, Fish, Cheese (his second favorite word), Keys, More, and Juice.

It seems he picks up a new word everyday!

Big Boy Bed

Landon is growing up so fast. He started climbing out of his crib so much to my dismay it was time to move him into a toddler bed. His crib is one of the convertible ones which seemed like such a great idea, until it was actually time to convert it. Poor little guy fell out of the thing several times a night. So we then rigged up bed rails which didn't help much because he would just get stuck between the rail and the bed. Long story short Landon is  now the proud new owner of a full sized bed. Instead of buying a twin bed and the mattresses we just used the headboard part of his crib and bought him the mattress. Here are some pictures of his room and the big boy in his bed:

Potty!

Just when I had given up hope that Landon was just not ready to potty train, he surprises me! After fighting to keep him in bed all afternoon and no nap, out of the blue Landon says POTTY! So we sit him on the potty and he pees!!! So we have a great dance around and get a cookie. He takes his cookie and sits back on the potty. A few seconds later he stands up, claps and says potty. Sure enough he tinkled a little more, so he got a m&m.  This process repeated about 5 more times. He sits tinkles and gets an m&m. I call this major progress!! He thinks its a fun game which is good because he is getting the idea down. Hopefully this continues!!
Way to go little man!!

Fun times with the family

We had a great time with my family. Wish it could have lasted longer. Uncle Chad and Adriana introduced us to this thing called geocaching which turned out to be really fun! www.geocaching.com. It is basically a real life, very large treasure hunt. We had a great time and found some caches.

photo credit to Uncle Chad

This is something I will have to do again! We also played a lot of games, which we always do. Adriana got a great new game called Quelf which is hilarious and a ton of fun!

again photo by Uncle Chad
Adriana had o wrap herself in wrapping paper to avoid a penalty !

Chris's task make a mask and wear it till he landed on green!

Then he got to sit under the table with his mask and his paper bib on till it was his turn again.
 

and of course the girls got whooped twice by he boys in trivial pursuit. Though the new edition we played had a lot more questions more of us could answer!

Christmas Time

We did lots of fun activities and spent some time with our wonderful families this year. We celebrated 4 times over the course of a few days. Earlier in December we took Landon to the Santa House. He wasn't so interested in Santa, but he loved the trains everywhere.

 We celebrated with the Collins family on the Thursday before Christmas. It was great to see the kids! Kind of a bummer that we were just getting over the flu and Chris sill had it :(

We headed over to my Grandparents on Christmas eve and spent Christmas day at my Aunt's house with the whole family. Then that evening we headed over to my Dad's. It was a crazy busy but oh so fun day! The day after Christmas we opened presents at Grandma and Grandpa's.

We had tons of fun visiting....Which will be detailed in the next blog or this one could get really long.

Crazy Catch Up Time

Well as you can all tell by the very spread out blogs of late I have been really busy. I just finished my first semester of clinical. Woohoo! It was really tough but I survived (and so did Landon and Chris). Here are some random pictures of the last few months to get us caught up to where we are now.

 We had a great time trick or treating with the Bartons. Layla and Landon caught on real fast that when they got up to a door they go candy.

Landon is growing up way too fast! He loves to ham it up for the camera!

Landon's 2!!

Where in the world has the time gone? This is sooooo crazy to me. Can't believe I have a toddler running around! We had a great day together just me and him on Friday relaxing around the house not doing much of anything. Never realized how much I missed being able to do this with him. Saturday a bunch of our family came over for his party. Here are some pictures of our festivities!