Valentine's Day and more...

We had a great Valentine's Day. We woke up and since it was Saturday that meant that it was "pancake day." In case you haven't heard about "pancake day," it is every Saturday at our house. Kaylie and Jeremy get up and go downstairs and make pancakes for all of us. Kaylie loves to help her daddy. When Landon gets up, I get up with him and we go downstairs and all eat pancakes. It's a fun tradition that Jeremy started with Kaylie and believe me she knows that after Friday comes, "pancake day." After we ate our breakfast we gave the kids their presents. Kaylie got some utensils to use in her kitchen and Landon got an Elmo doll and book since he loves Elmo right now. Daddy got the kids balloons which they loved and he got me beautiful flowers. We ended the day by heading to Indy to have dinner with my brother and Kady. My parents were kind enough to offer to watch all 4 kids while we had a nice dinner out.



Here are some other pictures from the last few weeks. Kaylie is really big into playing mommy and playing with her baby dolls. You rarely find Kaylie not holding a baby doll during the day. She is so fun to watch because she is a very caring little mommy and loves to dress, feed, and have parties for them. Here is one of her favorite dolls, "Lucy." Her other favorite doll is one of my old dolls, "Sally."





Landon is still learning new tricks. He is now trying to use a spoon. He does well but if it gets too slow he will drop the spoon and go back to using his hands.



Here is a picture from bath time. I just thought it made him look so old. :(



Our little boy is turning into a boy who loves to climb and get into my cabinets. We now have locks on every cabinet and have to make sure the gate is always closed or he is up the stairs in no time. He is almost 15 months now so he decided that he needs to walk up the stairs like his big sister. We usually find him walking up the stairs like the picture below. He actually does really well with it but the problem is he tries to come down using the same technique and it scares me he will fall head first.


And here are my 2 babies...


I will post some videos in case you would like to watch some of their new tricks.
Here is Kaylie saying all of the sounds to her letters. We are now working on recognizing what the letter looks like.
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Here are 2 videos of Landon talking. These are a few of his words that he says often. He just learned the word blue and yellow the other day during bath time.

Update

I just realized that the last post I did posted before I was done with it. So now you can view it with the captions and corrections. :)

Pictures and more pictures....

Hello! We have been staying busy here. Between all of the snow, activities, and planning for Jeremy's big 30th birthday we have been very busy.
This past weekend I surprised Jeremy by inviting two of his best friends down to stay with us for the weekend and help him celebrate his 30th birthday. He was surprised and enjoyed the weekend. We had a great time. Our friends have a little boy Landon's age so the boys had fun playing and Kaylie had a lot of fun playing mom to both boys. We even talked Jeremy's parents into babysitting Sat. night so we could all go out for dinner at a winery in town. It was a great night out.






Here are some pictures from some of the other happenings in our house...

Can't help but love the little naked babies before bath time. They love to stand on the stool and look in the mirror.


Here are my helpers. The kids LOVE to help me sweep. Landon goes crazy when he sees the sweeper and says, "swee, swee." I love my little helpers too and they actually do clean well also.


Kaylie loves to dress up. I turn on her dance music and she puts on her dress up clothes and dances away.


Landon got money in his Valentine's Day card and you would have thought he hit the lottery. It was so funny how he ran around with a smile on his face holding his $5.



Kaylie and her Mami (my mom) had craft time while she visited. She made this cute jewelry box that she was very proud of.


I feel like the kids are growing up so fast. They look and act so big.
Landon is now talking up a storm. I have some video I will post later of his new favorite words. Some of them include his few friend Elmo. He loves finding pictures of Elmo and saying, "Elmo Elmo," he says, "hi", "yes", "yandon" and several other words but those are some of his new ones.


Kaylie is growing so fast as well. Her new "trick," is that she has learned the sounds to all of her letters. She is very interested in learning what letter words start with and how they are spelled so it's fun playing, teacher. :)