Hallowe'en is FUN

Well, Landon may not have cared much for the carving of the pumpkin, but he sure enjoyed the rest of Hallowe'en!!

This morning we went to a Hallowe'en party at a friends house. We didn't dress up for the party, but Landon sure had fun playing with all the other kids. And I had a good time getting to visit with some other moms!

But the best part definitely came tonight. Landon has been loving this costume since he first saw it on ebay, and he loved wearing it tonight too!! When I first put it on him and plunked him in front of the mirror, he tried to kiss himself! LOL

Then I took him out trick-or-treating. I thought we'd be gone 10 or 15 minutes. NO WAY! We were out for an hour, came home - he pitched a fit when he realized the house we were at was our house - so we dumped the candy bag and went out for another half an hour!! yup - 1.5 hours of trick-or-treating!! He didn't say trick-or-treat, but he would 'roar' for everyone, and show them how Tigger jumps. Then he'd wave and say bye-bye as he was descending the steps on the hunt for the next house! He had an absolute blast! And he was so good - he held my hand the whole time (he usually won't hold it for 10 seconds), and did all the walking and step-climbing himself. Such a big boy. And such a tired boy! He was certainly tuckered out after the fun, as was I. But it was a great night - we all really enjoyed it.

Pumpkin carving...

Well, Landon had absolutely zero interest in carving a pumpkin. I spread newspaper on the floor, got all settled in, and all he could do was come up to the pumpkin, look at it warily, and say 'BLECH!', then he'd walk away!! LOL So he sat on the floor a little ways away from me reading a story book to himself and I carved the pumpkin!! Too funny.
He sure does love his Tigger costume though. I pulled it out tonight to show some friends from the volleyball team and he was loving it! So tomorrow night should be fun, I hope. I'm only planning to take him to about 5 or 6 houses I think - if he even lasts that long. We'll see.

Yesterday was a fun day. We went to Ricki's for lunch and a visit with Amy who was in town. Landon played so very well with Keaton and Jenna (another girl visiting too). And Ricki's yard is so fabulous - we could put the kids out in the back and they played and played and played. It was a nice chance to actually visit a bit with Ricki and Amy while they played outside. I am SO looking forward to getting this yard fenced!!!

And that's about it - pretty quiet life we're leading here. Landon's adorable - talking and dancing and imitating everything we say and do. It's great! hope all is well...until next time...TK

The weirdest things are the best toys

Landon discovered another new and very fun toy the other day. He got an old necklace of mine from the computer desk (more on how below), and a toilet paper tube. The fun was in putting the necklace through the tp tube. lol And of course he managed to drop the necklace down the furnace register, but I did get it out so that the fun could continue.

How did he get the necklace from the computer desk? Well, he used his very favourite tool -- the stool! He has figured out that by dragging the little white plastic stool around, he can reach many things he couldn't before. Like everything on the computer desk! And everything on the ledge in the bonus room (including many many kleenexes with one fake blow in them!). And by dragging the kitchen chairs to the cupboards he can reach EVERYTHING on the cupboards too. So if you're at my house and you want to sit at my table, you may need to go searching for a chair -- today it's been by the front door, the front stairs, and in the laundry room!!

Brand New Fun Thing...

Landon discovered just how much fun his toy basket could really be the other night. He dumped all of the toys out, and then proceeded to climb in and out, and finally to sit in, the basket. He had his string of beads with him in there too, for some reason they were very important to the fun. *shrug*

You might notice the lego 'tower' in the background (on the speaker), Landon has taken a liking to lego too. But his fave still is the vehicle puzzle (seen under the basket) -- that gets at least 20 mins attention every single day :-)

The workin' man

Today I took Landon in to John's office for a visit. He was pretty sleepy as he'd had a bad night last night and I dragged him out of bed early this morning for an appointment, so he didn't get into too much trouble. He met everyone, played shy with most of them, and then had a ton of fun playing at John's desk. I think I REALLY need to get his own table and chairs up from the basement - he needs his own play-table. The funniest part: he picked up the phone, put it to his ear, babbled some Landon-talk, then hung the phone up again!! LOL

Hoser - GAH

Remember the whole coo-oo-coo-oo-coo-oo-coo-coo thing? heh heh Well, Landon still loves it, and will try to repeat it whenever we bring it up. Tonight though, he put a twist on it. He was saying coo-oo-coo-GAH! Then he'd laugh laugh laugh and fall down laughing so hard. So I started doing that too, well ... let's just say that that is the funniest darned thing that I've ever done. Made me laugh a lot too watching him.

I think he was giggly because he was tired. After dinner tonight he ran ran ran ... right around the block (for those familiar, out our backdoor, to the main drag, down to Mac's and back again). He did one face plant though - he even left a wet mark on the cement where his poor mouth hit - and scraped up his nose :-( But luckily there were some birds flying over head and they were more interesting to watch and point at and shout about than crying was. PhEW!!

Somewhere along the past few months, Landon has been learning so much I can't believe it. He points out his eyes, nose, mouth, ears, belly, toes, feet. He's starting to remember where his cheeks are, but is still confused about his bum. He can point to my eyes too - just about gouging them out, but he knows where they are!! LOL

He also knows many of his vehicles - firetruck, dumptruck, cop car, taxi, helicopter, boat. The ambulance tricks him up sometimes, but usually he gets his vehicles right. He loves to point out the vehicles as we're walking or driving somewhere, 'GUCK!' 'GAR' 'AN' (truck, car, van). And he points to motorbikes and bicycles, but doesn't know what to call them so they get called gucks too :-)

Anyways, that's the news from here. John and I are going out for our anniversary on Thursday - a HUGE thank you to Trish for babysitting for us!! I am looking forward to it!!!!! until next time...TK

Weight / Height stats :-D

I just realized that I never posted anything about Landon's vaccines or anything. We went a couple of weeks ago (before Elkwater!). He got 2 shots, he cried a bit, but it didn't last long. Thankfully he didn't react much either - a bit sleepy and his appetite decreased a bit, but nothing very noticeable (we left for Elkwater the next day, so I think he had more interesting things to focus on than a couple of needles!).
Stats: he weighs 28 pounds, and is 33" long. That's 75th percentile for both height and weight. Little porker! LOL No wonder I get tired lugging him around!!!!!

Anyways, just thought I'd share that too. TK

My puzzle-solver :-)

Landon has all of a sudden taken to puzzles. Well, maybe not all of a sudden. John's friend Melissa gave him a puzzle in August that he has enjoyed - but he didn't really 'get' it ... it makes noise when you put the pieces in, but you can just push the buttons yourself to get the noise, which is what he would do. But now Aunty Liz sent some puzzles to him, they don't make noise, but one has vehicles (lots of 'gucks' LOL). The other day I was wondering why Landon was so quiet (I was worried actually ... quiet = naughty usuall). He was standing at the couch doing the puzzle. He puts all the right vehicles in the right spots. And when you ask him to point out the different vehicles, he can! I don't know where or when he learned all of this!!! LOL But he loves that thing now ... which is great. It's a nice, quiet, 15 minutes when he gets working on the puzzle :-D I'm so proud that he has it all figured out ... heh heh

We went shopping today - for bras and bathing suits. I thought that was going to be an absolute gong-show. Landon in a store, while I'm naked in between trying on 'things'. *shaking head* Well, he was actually really good. He did finally make an escape from the change room when I was fitting bras, but the ladies at the store thought he was pretty cute (plus I was buying expen$ive bras which I'm sure contributed to their patience!!) so he didn't get into too much trouble. I was shopping at the Cat's Pyjamas, which has cat figurines all over the store. Landon ran from display to display saying 'meow'. lol
Then I went to swimco for a bathing suit. By now Landon's goodness is almost used up, and he's ready for a snoozers. He didn't do too badly, but he kept opening the change room door on me :-/ He was actually the best behaved when I was playing -- jumping up and down on the display raisers by the windows. He didn't knock over any manequins, and he didn't go flying through the windows (gave me heart palpitations, we were on the second story!!), and he didn't even have a meltdown until I picked him up to leave (he was having FUN on those raisers).
So all in all, he was pretty darned good little shoppers' *ahem* helper today :-)

AND, the Thomas toys and DVD's that I bought on ebay arrived today. YAY! We watched a couple of videos before we went shopping (Landon was enthralled ... he had to sit on my knee, with his Thomas story book and one of the train pieces while we watched). And he took Fergus shopping with us too. I will have to get his little table all painted up and then he can play trains on there. I don't know where his Thomas got to - I hope we didn't lose it in Saskatoon...?

Oh yeah, and Landon's hallowe'en outfit arrived Wed (bought on ebay too). It's a Tigger costume. As soon as he saw it he came running up to me, so I gave it to him and he was hugging it and squealing! He's pretty excited about that outfit I guess!! LOL That was pretty much his reaction when he saw it on ebay, which is why I bought it in the first place. Funny kid.

So that's the little tidbits of news. Landon's adorable as usual. Hope all is well with you! Until next time...TK

John's Surprise Birthday Party

In Saskatoon, we had a surprise birthday party for John at the Willows Golf course. Uncle Neville, Uncle Bob, and Brian took John golfing in the afternoon - which was great for John as he shot an 89. Then when he came in, Aunty Rosemary, Bernie, Juli and Lilja, mom, dad, Yvonne and Greg, Kyle, Uncle Murray and myself were all waiting for him. He was quite surprised to see us all there. We had dinner, and shared some gag gifts with Johnny-cakes. Landon had quite the time running around and around and around. He was impressively well-behaved, considering we were there for 5 hours!! He had so much fun playing with everyone - I love the picture of him and Grandma playing. Then he got to explore the gifts. And finally he discovered the balloons -- that was a big hit!!

All in all, it was a very fun night, and I'm so thankful to everyone who was able to make it such a special evening!!

Fun at Aunty Rosemary's

We had an absolutely fabulous weekend in Saskatoon visiting with Uncle Bob and Aunty Rosemary for Thanksgiving. Landon particularly enjoyed Aunty Rosemary's incredibly beautiful backyard. He ran and ran and ran. He exploted all of the plants, flowers and bushes. He climbed up and down from the deck. And he had some fun rocking with Aunty Rosemary too (I LOVE this picture of them).

Of course, the biggest shock of the weekend came when I checked out the second picture here, and realized just how much Landon looks like Uncle Neville!! LOL Just like a little mini-Neville running around -- watch out everyone!!

Artwork!

Perhaps Landon has been refusing to colour on paper all along because it moves. He liked the stationary high chair!! LOL Here we have captured Landon's first 'picture' that he created all by himself :-) I love his use of colour, and the lines show remarkable vision - don't you think? heh heh

S-L-O-W times...

Not much has been happening here. I've been preparing for John's birthday - baked a cake, made nice dinner, etc, and that's kept me occupied (his birthday is today). *shrug* Landon is cute as all get-out of course. He says 'bubble' all the day long - I think he likes bubble baths :-) He is started to say more, and juice; well really he's starting to make sounds that stand for these words - I have trouble recognizing them so I don't think anyone else would. But at least I'm starting to catch on to his garble. He loves juice, and he always wants more of it :-D

Landon is loving trains too - thanks to Thomas! He says 'toot toot' whenever he sees a train, or anything looking remotely like a train. He loves the C-train when we drive by it, that's for sure. And I bought a little train thing last week for him to, which he's loving. Aunty Liz sent a Thomas puzzle which is a big hit too!!

Tonight we had a snowball-shower here. Really. It was like miniature snowballs falling down (or super soft, fluffy hail if you prefer). Landon was mesmerized. So we let him outside for a bit - he was running around the backyard laughing and giggling, watching the snowballs fall. It was adorable! I took some video - will post on the other site hopefully tomorrow (?).

That's really all the news today. Tomorrow we'll be getting ready for our trip to Saskatoon for the weekend! YAY Looking forward to it :-) Might not post before we leave, but I will when we get back. Until next time...