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. :)

Snow Day

Just like many of you out there, we are snowed in for the day. My friend said it best though when she mentioned that unlike everyone who got off from school and work, stay-at-home moms don't get a snow day! ha!

I took Kaylie to Jeremy's parents yesterday to go sledding. She had a great time! We went out on Mon. night to get her a new sled in case it snowed like they were saying. Needless to say she was very excited to see snow so she could use her sled.






Landon has never seen snow (that he remembers). He has had a cold so I didn't want to take him out for long. I did get him out for a few min. today and he was a little confused at first but then he warmed up to the snow and I think he would have played in it if I would have let him. He didn't have boots so he couldn't get too close.



The reason Landon is wearing pink gloves is because he lost his and I didn't want his hands freezing so he had to wear his sister's old gloves. Sorry buddy!



Since we could not drive anywhere today, Kaylie and I went ahead and made our Valentine's cut out cookies so we can freeze them and have them ready in a couple weeks. She loves to help mommy bake.


Believe it or not I did not pose this picture. Kaylie loves to walk around with her arms around Landon. She is really into playing with Landon these days.


Can you tell which ones Kaylie decorated? Yes, she loves sprinkles.



So the snow is pretty for awhile, but I am more ready than ever for spring and warm weather so we can get back outside for longer periods of time!

Update

Hello, nothing major to report here just trying to stay warm! I am not liking this cold weather. We try to get out at least once a day to have a play date, go to gymnastics, go to the library, etc. but this weather makes it no fun to bundle up and go anywhere.

The kids are doing well. Landon continues to grow and change every day. I am amazed at how much he has changed in the last few weeks. He is talking so much more and comprehends so much. He is pretty much down to one nap a day and decided on his own that he did not want his night time bottle anymore. No more bottles, my baby is growing up too fast!

Kaylie is still enjoying all of her activities and most importantly her social life with her friends. Here favorite phrase when she wakes up from both bedtime and nap time is, "where are we going to go today." She just said this to me after playing with her friends for almost 3 hours this morning.

Here are a few pictures from the last few weeks...
The kids are having fun trying to playing together. They are doing pretty well. Kaylie really wants Landon to play with her babies, cook, build, draw, etc. with her and sometimes Landon will follow along and other times he would rather do his own thing which is typical of this age. When they do play together it is really cute to watch them interact.


I have not taken a bath time picture in awhile so here it is...


Landon discovered pasta and from the picture you can tell that he loves it. When we get it out he says, "hasta hasta."


Kaylie got new boots for the winter. We have not had a lot of snow and it's been so cold that we have not been out playing in the snow, but she likes to wear them when it's wet outside.

Christmas 2008

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year! We had a great Christmas and New Year! We enjoyed spending time with all of our family and catching up with some friends as well.

I had so many pictures I wanted to share so I decided to put them on a slide show. If you click on the "view all images" below you can view all of them. (Thanks to my friend Megan for teaching me how to do this). I promise I won't do it like this often, but because it was a big holiday with a lot of picture I opted for this version this time.

These are pictures from Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with my family and then Christmas night with Jeremy's family.

Before Christmas one of Kaylie's good friends came over and they painted aprons together. The kids had a lot of fun and they turned out really cute.

I hope everyone is blessed in this new 2009 and all of your hopes and dreams come true and this year brings you much health and happiness.

Santa

This is the fun time of year as a parent because you get to watch the excitement in your kids eyes as they await Santa to show up at their house. Kaylie is really into Santa and Christmas this year. I was not fully prepared the other night when I read, The Night Before Christmas," to her and she started looking at the pictures and asking me how Santa carries all the toys down the chimney and how he climbs back up, how the reindeer fly, etc. I need to get in full parent mode and begin coming up with wise answers when given such hard questions as those. ha! Jeremy's work had a kids Christmas party on Tues. night. Kaylie was all excited sit on Santa's lap and tell him just what she wanted, and she told me she would smile so I could take her picture. Well as with most kids that sounds great until you get to the big and scary Santa and they freeze and realize they are not as brave as they thought. :) So with the help of daddy we did get a picture of the kids with the Mrs.. I forgot to get Santa in the picture, can you believe that? oops!


Kaylie got a doll to dress up and Landon got a car that makes sounds. They were both excited and have enjoyed playing with their presents.


This is our attempt at a family picture. I was trying to distract Landon from the balloon but he was more interested in trying to figure out why I was hiding it. :)

For all of your Purdue fans out there, Kaylie has learned the Purdue fight song and loves running around the house singing it. How can you not be proud to be a Boiler when you hear this...


Here are some other random pictures from the last week...

Landon looks so big here. Where did my baby go? He is changing so much each day. He continues to enjoy walking, eating big people food, and we just started him on "real" milk so he is enjoying that as well. He is also learning new words. He now says, "all d (all done), and eeee when he wants to eat. He says something that sounds like drink also.

Kaylie contines to love to play with her dolls and is starting to realize that Landon can now play so it's cute to watch them try to play together. She is also really into drawing and doing anything with the arts.

Happy Birthday

This weekend we celebrated Kaylie's 3rd birthday and Landon's 1st birthday. I am not sure where the last 3 years have gone but my babies are growing up too fast! Kaylie's birthday is Dec. 8th and Landon's is Dec. 13th. We try to do them the 1st weekend in Dec. so we can stay as far away from Christmas as possible. Just like the day my babies were born it was snowing and yucky out. Kaylie was born in an 8 inch snow storm closing all the schools for a couple days and the day we brought Landon home from the hospital it was a snow emergency as well. Luckily everyone traveled safely and all of our family was here for the special day. Here are a few pictures. I did 2 cakes because I wanted the kids to each have their own theme and cake to enjoy. Kaylie had a Cinderella party and Landon had a 1st birthday party. Kaylie wanted white cake with purple icing and loved every bite. Landon really enjoyed his cupcake and already has a sweet tooth.

Here are Kaylie and Landon opening presents. Kaylie was really into her birthday and understood exactly what it was about. Landon being 1, just went with the flow and watched and enjoyed the benefits of new toys.
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Of course the kids got plenty of toys to fill our basement and it's not even Christmas yet. Kaylie is enjoying her new clothes, digital camera, easel,doll house,and garden tools. Landon is enjoying is clothes, ride on toy, ball toys, and cars.

Not only will Landon turn 1 on the 13th he also learned how to WALK!! He figured it out and is off to the races. I still find it funny when I walk in another room and he follows me just walking along. It's so cute and I am loving it. It is sure helping my back because he wanted me to walk with him all day. So that is our big news of the week. Here is a little video.