Getting ready to travel....

We're heading back to Saskatchewan tomorrow - Landon and I. We were planning to leave on the weekend, but my great-uncle passed away so we will go to his funeral on Friday now in Swifty. I'm looking forward to visiting 'home' as we haven't been for a visit for any length of time for quite awhile (a weekend here, a day there usually).
So won't be posting until we get back. But hopefully I'll have some fun pics then. :-D I'm excited for Landon to check out the animals at Carla's, as he is so excited every time he sees a cow or a horse on tv. LOL And it'll be nice to relax at the farm too.

Hopefully Landon will sleep alright. He's been a silly monkey the past few days -- he'll cry out from his crib when we put him to bed, and when I check on him he wants up. So if I pick him up he clamps on to me like he will never let go - his legs around my waist, his arms around my shoulders. And then he cries when I put him back, which breaks my heart :-( But he still gets to sleep, it just takes a few extra trips in there on my part. So hopefully he'll be okay while we travel.... I think he'll be okay at Carla's as Ryder should tucker him out!! LOL And he has slept well at mom and dad's in the past, so we'll hope that continues....

That's all until Dec 10 or so. That day is my ultrasound too...maybe I'll have some pics of the new baby!! Take care...

Just can't seem to hide that RIDER PRIDE!

Oh yeah - we're full of victory tonight! I even risked jinxing the Riders and watched the Grey Cup game. And am I ever glad that I did -- what a game!! We dressed Landon in his CFL best for the game (the jacket didn't last long though ... too hot for all the jumping around and cheering). He would imitate us cheering, and he was laughing pretty hard at mommy's victory dance at the end of the game LOL
WAY TO GO RIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Lots of Fun!! Landon goes from nice, quiet, downtime to full-blown jumperoo in about 3.6 seconds most days! Ah well, it keeps us on our toes. Here's a picture of him all snuggled into the couch, watching cartoons. Just looking at him makes me want to snuggle up with him - it looks so cozy! It lasted for, well, about as long as it took to take this picture, then he was up and running again!! LOL
Sometimes you get the greatest shot when you least expect it. I love this photo of Landon, I just happened to have the camera so took a picture. He was 'helping' John with some mail here i think it was. I just love this photo for some reason *shrug*
Landon loves to turn all lights on and off. Especially in the living room. I think he likes it because he can climb up onto the couch to do it, and that's lots of fun.
Apparently it's tiring to climb up there and do all that light turning off and on ... he needed a break so just put his head down and watched tv for a few minutes! LOL
And if this isn't a shit-disturber smile, I don't know what is!! Little stinker. you'll see in his hand one of his treasured train pieces ("toot toot"). He has a few of them, and usually one is pretty close at hand at all times. Like when we're in the tub - where we learned that the wooden train pieces don't like water. We're down one train piece....

Landon's Going to be a Big Brother :-D

That's right - Landon will be a big brother next summer! We are due with #2 on June 24!! So far it hasn't been as gloriously wonderful as pregnancy with Landon was - I've been nauseaus in addition to sooooo exhausted. But that seems to be passing now and my energy level is picking up again, so that's good news to me (and to John who was doing all the cooking and cleaning for a few weeks!!).
We don't plan to find out what we're having ... I figure we had a surprise with Landon, we can have a surprise with this one too. Plus it wouldn't really change anything that we'd do between now and when the baby's born. All my newborn stuff is gender-neutral already, and I'll likely want to buy some new stuff when the baby arrives regardless of gender. So we'll just leave the girl/boy thing to be a surprise :-)
What is different is that I sure got a belly quickly this time! LOL I'm as big now as I was 2 years ago in November when I was pregnant with Landon - except I was due in March then, now I'm not due 'til June! aiaiaiaiaiai So I'm living in sweat pants most days... heh heh

Well, that's it for now, just wanted to let everyone know that Landon is such a big boy, and will be a big brother soon too! Until next time....

First Movie :-)

I forgot, Landon watched his very first movie on Friday night. And he actually sat and watched it with John and I, on the couch, all the way through. He was quite cute, lounging all over us. He'd lay this way, then that way, but he was enthralled with Stuart Little. He really loved the cats, pointing and meowing when they were on the screen. It was a very nice evening.

What's with all the toy cars being for 3+? I was going to buy one for Landon today, and they are either baby cars (soft, plushy ones), or for 3+ with little parts that Landon would break off in 2.3 minutes! Very disappointing. I guess that's what happens when you shop at London Drugs! LOL

Which makes me think I'd better get some Xmas shopping done soon. aiaiaiai

That's all for now ... until next time..

Goofy!

Landon has so much fun playing around all day - I giggle at him most of the day myself :-) Here he came ripping up the stairs and I think he was trying to scare me or something but he was laughing too hard! Too cute, that's all I can say

And Aunty Vonnie and cousin Kyle can be happy to know that Landon is LOVING Kyle's rocking horse. It took him awhile to get used to it, but now he treats it like a jungle gym with the added bonus of being able to rock and move it across the room. Good fun!

Counting and climbing and colouring

Landon sure has been 'exploring his world' ... aiaiaiai. Keeps us very busy. He loves to drag the chairs around the kitchen, so that he can reach EVERYTHING on the cupboards, including clean and dirty dishes, knives, garlic, hot frying pans ..... So he's had a couple of owies (see hot frying pan), and some near misses (see knives), and made some VERY big messes in the process. And we've cleaned off our cupboards (sort of).

One of Landon's very favourite things to do is colour. Every day he is going for his pad of paper and his crayons. He says 'paper' but not crayon yet. I don't think he gets that paper is paper though, I think to him paper is colouring, because he says paper while he's colouring the chairs, or the table, or just running around with the crayon in his hand and a mischievous gleam in his eye. But at least it's a relatively quiet activity, and crayons wash off of everything (including walls, couches, and his clothes, where he loves to put the crayons into his pockets and take them out again, repeatedly).

And somewhere along the line he's picked up counting. Don't know where it came from. John had him at the park last weekend and one of the girls there was counting to 10 then rolling down the hill. Landon was apparently mesmerized, so maybe that's where it came from *shrug* Anyways, now I'll say 'one', he'll say 'two', I'll say 'two', he says 'three', I say 'three' and he laughs and laughs and laughs. Pretty cute, if I do say so myself. Of course John is now working on four and five, I'm just impressed with one, two, three!!

So that's been the news here. It's been awhile since I posted, some comp troubles kept me mostly off-line for a couple of days. But John muttered and swore at the comp so much that it has quit acting up (for now). So maybe some pics coming up shortly as well. Until next time...TK

looking forward to the weekend

Well, we had a busy week. On Tuesday we headed down to Medicine Hat to visit with Jenay who was in the country for a few days due to the passing of her Grandma :-( Landon quite enjoyed the road trip though, he loves to have a new audience to perform for!! LOL And perform he did. I was very impressed though - he did not break a thing in a non-childproofed house! I was sure we'd be buying some replacement somethingorother, but he managed to contain himself just enough !! LOL





We spent the night at Julie's ... it was great to get a chance to visit with her as well.





Landon did so very well during the car trip too. On the way down he slept for a bit, but spent a good hour prior to falling asleep just staring - looking like he was going to fall asleep! And on the way back he mustn't have made a peep for at least an hour on the road! The picture is from on the way back - he was putting his babybanz sunglasses on his head! LOL He didn't nap on the trip at all, and so by the time we hit Calgary he was a bit squirelly (yes, I had stopped for a play-break on the way ... but he just was squirelly). Luckily the bag of toys kept him fairly occupied -- he took everything out and threw them all over the car. The babybanz were a hit though - he kept putting them on his head. I don't know if he was actually trying to put them on, or if he was just reacting to my laughing at him *shrug*

Oh yeah, and guess who decided he didn't need a nap today :-/ little turkey - I sure hope he doesn't continue this pattern! He was pretty grumpy all evening without that nap!! He may have snoozed for a few minutes when I first put him down, but he wasn't very quiet in his room for very long so I'm not so sure. Little stinker!!!!!!

Anyways, I'm off to Banff for mommy's weekend retreat tomorrow - back Sunday. Very much looking forward to it! And I'm sure dad and Landon will have a blast all weekend too.