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!

Walking with Landon

Yesterday we went for a walk. We left the house at 2:30. I knew Rob would be home soon, about 3:30 and I thought it was a good way to bide the time until then. Landon was in his cute jacket with the ears on the hood but it was rather warm so he didn't need the hood. We walked along the sidewalk through our wooded neighborhood picking up sticks, leaves, and dandelions. We blew the dandelion seeds all over, threw leaves at each other and walked over the little wooden bridge about 10 times. We watched the big kids skate by on their skateboards. We watched several cool airplanes fly overhead. We drew our initials in the mud with sticks and got mud on our butts and for Landon on his neck! Who cares, it was fun. It took us over an hour to walk about three hundred yards! Daddy finally came along in a very muddy and dirty Yukon and picked us up. Landon's face was so cute when he saw his daddy drive up! He has missed him so much. So much so that this morning he wouldn't even give me a kiss or let me hold him! It's ok though I know he loves me!

We have a new game that Landon likes to play. It goes something like this: Landon says, "Momma?" I say, "What?" Landon says, "Momma?" I say, "What?" It goes on like that for a while and the whole time he's just grinning! My little goofball!