Landon's Class Christmas Party

I'm a full time working mom. I miss lots of Landon's fun things at school. But I didn't miss the class party! Landon's preschool follows the public school calendar. I teach at a private school. I was already off for Christmas break so I was able to go! One of the mom's brought in snow in a can. She added water and voila! Landon had so much fun with it.

This is Mrs. Hendrickson, Landon's teacher. He adores her.

Landon is giving his gifts to Mrs. Hendrickson and her assistant, Mrs. Hare.

I signed up for clean up duty. Landon helped me vacuum! Such a good boy!

Maw Maw's visit

I went to Chicago for a band conference and Maw Maw came down to watch the kiddos while I was gone.

Maw Maw likes to make bubbles and let them play! Great fun!

Watching a little tv.

Christmas Videos

Christmas Day!

Ho Ho, as Landon calls him, brought lots of fun things.

Rileigh was a lot of fun this year! She didn't open any of the gifts but she liked the ones Ho Ho brought! Landon had fun opening her things for her!

Mommy and Daddy gave Landon two new playdoh sets which he loves.

Ho Ho brought Landon a sticky ball. He had so much fun with it until it got so dirty it wouldn't stick anymore!

Christmas Eve

After church waiting to get ready for bed for Ho Ho to come!

We actually got the snow on Dec. 25.

I know...

It's been far too long. I have an update coming soon. I have several problems, you see. I have an iphone which I use to take most of my pictures now. I can't update blogger from my phone. I rarely bring the laptop home anymore. And... I am training for a half marathon. I run in my spare time! My day goes something like this: get up at 6am. Shower and dress. Get Rileigh up and dressed. Rob gets Landon going, occasionally we switch kids. Suck down some coffee and head out the door to work. Once at work I set up for my 5th grade general music class. Teach those little boogers, then write some lesson plans, practice flute and guitar, organize, sort, plan, research, study scores, whatever else I can do in 50 minutes. Then I proctor a study hall where I haul whatever I'm working on to the study hall room. Today it was middle school grades. Then I rehearse my high school band, then snarf some lunch followed by one of the three depending on the day, flute choir, clarinet choir and brass choir. Next up is 6th grade band followed by 7th grade band. Then depending on the day I either hang out doing work until it's time to leave for Wind Symphony rehearsal, go to a guitar lesson, run, teach a trombone lesson then begin jazz band rehearsal at 6:00 or I just go straight to my mother in laws to pick the kiddos up. Once home the kiddos watch one episode of Wow Wow Wubbzy while I make dinner. Then we clean up and play until Daddy comes home. Then I run. Last it was nine miles. Then I go to bed. There isn't much time for updating my blog! HOWEVER, I will work on updating at least twice a month.

The kids are growing and changing so fast. Rileigh is walking, Landon is as talkative and smart as ever. I have lots of pictures and videos to post and I promise I will have you all up to date by Sunday afternoon!

So sorry!

It's been almost a month since I've updated. I have tons of pictures to put on but just need to find the time to do so. We have our house decorated for Christmas and the kids have sat on Ho Ho's lap. Landon suddenly became shy and only told him he wanted a dump truck and Rileigh screamed like a banshee! Landon has a list a mile long of what he wants Ho Ho to bring. Hopefully, Ho Ho will get enough of it that he's happy!

Landon has his first speech therapy appointment yesterday. He brings his tongue between his teeth on almost all sounds. His therapist told me he's atypical. Figures, my kid would be!! He does so on "k" and "g" sounds which she said she hasn't seen before. We go back on Dec. 22 for his first treatment session. He will be working with Cristin without me because he got so silly with me in the room with him! This is a very good thing for him and hopefully he will catch on quickly and it will be a somewhat "easy" fix.

Rileigh is growing like a weed, she's still not walking on her own but pulls up on everything and walks holding onto this. She stands alone for longer periods of time before crashing to the floor. She is just so good natured and sweet. She's not into the "I'm going to say NO" phase yet! She repeats words and can consistently say Mama, Dada, Landon, Tickle, Tickle, Hi and hiiii yaaaa! She's a doll.

I will try to post pictures when I get back from Chicago on Sat.

Chuck E. Cheese

Rob was out of town all this week. So Nana kept Rileigh over night on Friday so that Landon and I could have some special time together, just the two of us. He said he wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese so that's what we did. He "won" 53 tickets. He turned them in for bugs, yep, bugs. 3 praying mantis', one grasshopper, and the lady gave him a frog for free! He had so much fun!

He looks so serious but he was having a good time.

Ask Landon what his favorite food is and he'll say pizza! I got him a pepperoni and black olive pizza for dinner. He enjoyed it! It was so nice to have some just us time. We went to the Dollar Store and Target afterwards to look at Christmas stuff. He pointed out all of the trucks that he didn't have that he would like to have! I told him we'd have to make a list for Santa, or Ho Ho as Landon calls him!

City Park

Isn't my girl just gorgeous? She loved the swing!

Landon has a blast at the park. Coupled with no nap and lots of outside running around he went to bed early this night!

We walked over to the little pond to see the geese. I didn't bring the double stroller since it is really hard to get in and out of Rob's car trunk so Landon just climbed into the basket on the bottom! He's done this before and finds it quite comfy!

Random pics

I love this picture even though it's a little blurry. I took it with my phone. Landon was sitting on the pillows in front of the couch when Rileigh crawled over and snuggled into him and put her hand on his arm. They stayed like that for about 10 minutes watching Wow Wow Wubbzey!

Landon decided one day last week he had to eat his snack in the pantry!

My little girl is getting so big!

The weekend of her birthday party Ri decided the dishwasher looked like a comfy place to sit!