Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Our 2 year old baby boy!

We have to remember the fun things Landon was up to at age 2!

You always says Oh wow!! to everything
Favorite new phrase: I got it.
When you are getting tickled you always ask for more
You love to be chased around the house
Yells potty potty when we are changing your diaper and will go to the potty, and then come back for your diaper and do it all again( 2 or 3 times). After you sit on the potty, you always look in the potty and say "nope"
You wear mommy's and daddy's shoes whenever they are left out and will walk around in them until someone says something to you.
Counts 1-2-1-2-1-2 and will count to six if we fill in a few numbers
If we ask you how old you are, you answer "two"
Love to spell your name- a-d-o-n but then you want us to spell it all the time and you “write” it
Loves buses, airplanes, helicopters (copters), bikes, motorcycles and trucks when we are driving
We moved your car seat from the middle to the seat behind the driver seat because you were throwing a huge fit and sitting in the seat without the car seat and putting the seat belt on
Puts camera, bracelets, purse, etc whatever you can find around your wrist and says “bye see (see ya)

Favorites after school:
Watching gabba
Playing on your fort (fot)
Eating a banana on your bench outside ALONE
Go to your upstairs playroom to colo (color) with the gabba cd playing

Favorite Restaurants:
Buffalo Wild Wings (screams ball when we pass it and cries if we don’t go in)
Chick Fil A- nuggies
McDonalds- nuggies
Sonic slushes- sonie
Will always eat: bananas, apple sauce, yogurt

First sentence: Dusty pooped outside. You told us this one night at 3 am when we were bring you to "mommydaddybed" as you call it. You kept repeating it that night and laughing.
Loves lotion- calls it shampi (shampoo)
Loves jumping on our bed with daddy after your bath
Loves to get splashed in the bathtub
Loves to stand in a chair and look out the front window to watch for daddy to come home from work
If you want to give us something you say “here, here, here” in a very low voice. You will not stop until we take what you have.
Brings us our cell phones when they ring (knows our ring tone and brings the right phone to the right person)
Tells dusty “hush” in a very low Texan accent
Is not affectionate with other kids if they try to hug you, but is now starting to like to cuddle with us
Loves flash cards
Loves to help with laundry or any adult task (climbed the other side of the ladder when Jason was changing the ceiling fan) will cry if you have to stay inside if you think Jason is working outside.

Dear Landon,
This year you have changed from a sweet easy going baby to a sweet head strong toddler and it has been so fun watching your personality develop. You entertain us endlessly. You keep us on our toes and laughing. We definitely know your likes and dislikes because you make them known all the time! You left your easy going days behind as a 12 month old and now you know exactly what you want to do, eat, watch on tv, listen to on the radio, play with in the car, etc these days. We always get a kick out of your demanding ways though because it is you- Landon! That is what makes you special. It is your personality shining through (very brightly!) The past 2 years have been wonderful, fun, exciting, scary and exhausting and every day we love you more than the day before. We love you more than you can imagine and can't wait to watch you grow this year!!!

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Landon's 2nd Birthday Party


Landon's 2nd Birthday Party was a Yo Gabba Gabba theme- of course! Landon loves Gabba! Both sets of grandparents, great Nanny, uncles Zach & Ty with their friends Jenny & Depika, and 5 friends with their moms & dads came over to celebrate.


Mommy & Daddy with the birthday boy! We are smiling on the outside, but crying on the inside because 2 years have flown by wayyyyyyy too fast!!!



Birthday boy!


We served Landon's favorite foods: Chick-Fil-A nuggets (nuggies as Landon calls them), his favorite fruits (strawberries, bananas, pineapples and grapes- no apples in sight :-) Landon HATES apples!), cheese sticks & cubes and goldfish. We had a Gabba cake & cupcakes.


Landon with his Yo Gabba Gabba table





Playing outside with Kassidy



Cameron helping Landon with his new climbing wall

All the kids except Brenna




Hugging Brenna





Cake time!


Hands on the hips blowing out his candles. I had a #2 sparkler on the cake. Poor Landon couldn't blow it out, but he blew out the other candles like a pro (who had lots of practice the day before!)

Licking the icing off the Gabba characters




Eating cake with friends






Landon had lots of help opening presents which is great because normally he just opens one and won't open the rest.

Checking out his Gabba nap mat




Playing in the Gabba tent

Partied out! 2nd birthday parties are exhausting- five 2 year olds and an 8 month old can really wear a boy out!!!!

Happy 2nd Birthday Landon!

We woke Landon up singing "Happy Birthday". He had unzipped his pajamas and taken off 1 side of his diaper. He loves to zip/unzip his pajamas.
He had his favorite breakfast of waffles in our bed with candles!


Blew the candles out on the first try! It would be the first of many candles to blow out :-)





Ready for school! Wearing his Gabba shirt with his Gabba cupcakes for his party at school.




Breakfast #2 at school School party with the kids


Birthday boy! Cheeeeeese!
We took Landon to Chuck E. Cheese to celebrate his birthday for dinner. Nana & Papa came too! He LOVED playing the games. We would try to get him to sit and eat pizza or dessert, but he would march off (his sassy high step march) and play more games. He didn't sit down for 2 hours. Daddy loved to play too!






He wanted to wear his special birthday boy hat from school to Chuck E. Cheese







Watching Chuck E. perform






Calling Chuck E.






We came home and opened presents. Landon got Plex's buggy and a Gabba boom box from us and a rock climbing wall from Nana & Papa.






Then we had cupcakes!


Landon LOVED us singing and blowing out the candles. He kept saying "more, more" and we would re-light the candles and sing again! We did it about 2o times :-)

Waiting for the candles again




Yummy cupcakes!




Sweet birthday boy



Happy 2nd Birthday Landon! We can NOT believe you are 2!

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Big Brother Landon

Landon took a Big Brother class to get ready for baby "sissy" (that is what Landon calls the baby). He is going to be the BEST Big Brother! He is really excited and has been such a big helper getting her nursery ready. Hopefully the excitment continues when she arrives :-)


Ready for the hospital tour

Intently listening to the teacher

Holding a baby is serious business



Diaper changing- Landon has this down!




Getting his Official Big Brother t-shirt for completing the class.




Official Graduate!