MERRY CHRISTMAS!

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Much love,
Rob, Carrie, Landon, Mac, and Buddy

Silly Catepillar Glasses!

Super glasses make me run fast!

Do these make my face look fat?

Oh dear....

Hot stuff!

Weekend fun

Oh so cute!

Baby Burrito

Dr. Livingston, I presume?

Jammie time!

Landon looks so cute in his jammies! He loves to rearrange the ornaments on the tree. We had such a fun weekend and I can't wait until Friday. It's my last day of school for a couple of weeks so Landon and I can hang out all of the time. Hopefully the weather stays somewhat warm so we can spend a lot of time outside. His cold is getting better. I think being out in the fresh air yesterday actually helped him. He woke up booger free this morning!

Outside

So, after reading the morning paper, we went outside to clean up the yard for the winter. Daddy and Landon bagged leaves while Mommy raked leaves from the flower beds, cut off dead flowers, and weeded. Mommy also dug up the hosta plants in the bed by the back door, cut down small trees growing in the azaleas, & picked up sticks. Phew! We all slept well last night!

Breakfast

So, Daddy made Landon breakfast on Sunday morning. He made eggs and what I thought was toast with red and green food coloring on it, festive, right? Well.... the food coloring was on... chopped up banana! Banana's don't soak up food coloring. Daddy put two drops on each piece of banana so not only were the banana's festive but also Landon. It's ok, Daddy tried.

New Hat

So, we did a little Christmas shopping on Saturday evening. We window shopped too. We saw a cute hat and mittens set in Old Navy for $10.00 We put the hat on Landon and he wore it around the store, mittens attached to the top. We decided since he kept it on we should buy it. It was only $5.00 when it rung up, even better! He wore his new hat all the way home!

Boots

So after Landon's bath last night he wanted to put his boots on. Grammie and Grandpa bought the boots for him because they were too cute to pass up. Landon wears a size 6 and these are 8's! No matter to him. So we put his boots on, put our coats on, and walked all the way down our street looking at Christmas lights! We passed our nice neighbor, Mr. Allen who wanted to know what we were doing outside in our pajama's in the dark. Landon kissed his dog on the nose, the dog growled and we said good night and came back inside! A fun 30 minutes in the dark in our jammies and camo boots!

Landon is back to rearranging the ornaments after our foray outside!

Elvis!

Elvis has entered the bathtub.

There's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on in here!

A Boy and His Dogs Revisited

Gimme a kiss, Mac!I love you, Buddy!

The ride home

So our long ride home started out like this. Snoozing so sweetly.And progressed to our usual game. Landon takes his socks off and I say, "Landon, don't you dare eat your toes." Then Landon eats his toes.

He was getting tired so to keep things fun I stuck a french fry in between his toes! He was eating the french fry from his toes. Don't worry, he's clean!

Just being silly. Yes, I was in the drivers seat while taking these pictures but we weren't moving. The traffic was so bad it took us two extra hours to get home. There were places where we just sat. It was raining so there were a lot of accidents on the interstate.

More fun over T-giving!

Trying on Grandpa 's boots! They'll probably fit next year!

Playing with Grammie's tupperware!

Thankgiving

What? I can really take a stuffing ball right off of the pan? (They weren't hot.)

Don't they look like they are carrying on a conversation. I think Landon is eyeing Brayden's cell phone. Brayden is eyeing Landon eyeing the phone and planning his esacpe!

Lazy Saturday Morning

Landon loves his Spiderman playhouse. This morning he put all of his trucks into and sat inside playing. With the warm heat in the house and the fabric of the playhouse it created a lot of static! He was having an electrifying time in the playhouse!

My baby is getting so big! He was watching The Imagination Movers in this picture.

Landon loves for us to chase him around his playhouse!

"Get me, Mom!"

The helicopter he is holding used to be one of my toys when I was little!

Having a drink while watching cartoons in his Elmo chair!

A boy and his dogs

Landon and Buddy one morning this week getting ready to go to Nana's for the day. It's been really cold and windy here this week!

Landon with Mac and Buddy. Mac has a sore spot on his tail so he has to wear a cone while it heals to prevent him from licking it! Mac tolerates the cone really well and so far (knock on wood I'm not jinxing it) Landon leaves Mac's cone alone!

Kisses from Mac!

Cans

I've been really busy with work. Not a free weekend since Sept. and I have a big parade tonight. I'm sorry I'm slow with new pictures. Landon Joe is napping before lunch and going to Nana's to spend the night. I have a few minutes before I have to get ready to get you all updated on Landon's antics!

Landon likes to do two things in our kitchen, wait, make that three. 1. He pulls all of the tupperware out of the cabinet. 2. He plays with the cans in the pantry. 3. He rearranges the shelves in the fridge and plays with the plastic bottles of soy sauce, salad dressing and bbq sauce!

Bath videos

Asserting independence?

Landon is either asserting his independence or he just likes to say, "NO!" Hey, Landon, may I have a kiss?" "NO!" "Hey, Landon, do you want to leave Nana's and go home?" "NO!" "Landon, are you ready for bed?" "NO!" "Do you want to brush your teeth?" "NO!" "Landon, are you hungry?" "NO!"

I think we might be headed for the "terrible twos." The simple things like brushing his teeth or getting him to eat are becoming mighty difficult. He's not starving so I let him eat what he will and when he either flips his plate on the floor or throws one tiny piece of food on the floor he's done. He knows to go to the fridge or pantry and point if he wants more food so that's what we do. We're really trying to get him to use his words too, "food," "milk," and so forth. Sometimes he does and sometimes not.

He is still fairly pleasant but when it's time to do something he doesn't want to do he resists and sometimes a struggle ensues! I walked the dogs last night before bed and Landon wanted to go too. However, he had his jammies on and it was windy and cold! Rob picked him up by the door and the legs starting kicking. He hadn't kicked his legs in a tantrum yet, guess we need to watch out we don't get kicked with a flailing leg now!

I think he misses being outside. It's dark by the time I get home with him and it's been very windy and cold. He does go out quickly with me when I walk the dogs when we first get home and he runs from me when I try to get him back inside! He loves the outdoors.

I've been having fun shopping for him for Christmas. I've only purchased a few clothing items but have been eyeballing the toys. I know Santa is going to bring him a kitchen. He loves to pull my tupperware out of the cabinet so I think he'd love a Landon sized kitchen with pots and pans and drawers and cabinets to open and close and put stuff in! I am not sure what else Santa will bring. He loves trucks and action figures too so maybe some of those. Too many choices and decisions to make! It's fun though!

Bath Time!

Landon used to cry, scream really, when it was time for a bath.
Now you ask him if he wants to take a bath and he takes your hand and leads you upstairs!
He never wants to get out of tub!

Hair dryer!

Landon had fun with the hair dryer this morning. Don't worry, it was set on cool and wasn't hot!

18 Month Check Up

Rob took Landon for this 18 month check up. It must be a guy thing because I come out of there with charts, percentiles, and all kinds of stuff. Rob could only tell me that Landon Joe got his flu shot, his hepatitis A shot, and that he weighs 28.something pounds. He can't remember how tall Landon was or what percentile anything is! Good grief, these things are vastly important!

The removal of the socks!

Yep, my kid rolls off of the couch at the end of this video. He's started doing this a lot! I guess it's more fun than getting down feet first.

Oh

Too cute!

Bye bye!

There's a reason this post is titled "Bye bye." Watch the video!

Dancing Machine

I took some short videos of Landon Joe tonight. He was in rare form! In this one he is dancing, doing the Elvis leg shake! He's so wild he has to hold on so he doesn't fall over. This is really funny when he does it and is actually looking at you and not holding on! I have yet to catch that on video! He comes in for a close up after he's done dancing and that's a little bit of cheese on his lip!

New Pictures

I picked Landon up from Nana's last night but really didn't feel like cooking. So Landon Joe and I went out for Chinese food. He chowed down broccoli, sweet and sour chicken, sweet rolls, and jello! We had a good time! We got fortune cookies too, though I ate his! It's too hard for him to eat just yet. His fortune is: He who is afraid of doing too much always does too little. Whatever the heck that means!? Landon does anything and everything so not very "fortuous" for Landon! Then we walked over the Dollar Store to see what we could buy which was nothing!

Today I did some shopping and picked up a Chick fil A sweet tea on my way home. After Landon snoozed in the car on the ride home from Nana's he had dinner and drank the rest of my tea. As you can see, he loves it!