Stitches and More...

So most of you have already heard by now, but last Monday was an eventful trip to Lafayette. I was putting Landon down for a nap and when I got done and came into the kitchen I heard Kaylie crying and just assumed she had fallen and didn't think much about it. I was surprised when I got there and found my mom holding a bloody cloth on her head and telling me she needed to go get stitches. I took one look at it and was in shock at how deep of a cut my baby had on her forehead. She had gone to get the paper with my grandma (her great grandma) and tripped on the rug and hit her head on the brick at the bottom of the front door. So to make a long story short, my grandma stayed with Landon and my mom and I took Kaylie to Urgent Care. My mom helped remind me that Kaylie was looking at me to be calm so I had to go into "mom mode" and be the strong one. Kaylie did get 17 stitches (2 inside and 15 out). She did AMAZING! They always put kids in these straight jacket looking things and tie them down and Kaylie didn't cry one time and was just so brave. We were so proud of her, I would have been scared if it were me but she acted like such a big girl. It hurt me more to watch her laying there. Needless to say, since she did so well we took her to the store and my mom let her pick out new clothes for her baby, new clothes for her, and several other things. You have to spoil them after that. :) The stitches are out and she is doing great. We are praying there is not a big scar. I said God knows when to let things like this happen because we had the support we needed and it all worked out better than I would have imagined for such a scary thing.
Here are some pictures from a few days after she had stitches.






This picture was taken before we went to a baby shower of one of my good high school friends. It was really fun to take Kaylie with me and great to see my good friends.



Landon is doing well. He is working on his 1 year molars and they are not treating him so well. He has been working on them and they have been so swollen for about a month now. I can finally see the first one coming up. Otherwise he is still talking a lot and just amazes me with all the fun things he is learning. He is a sweetie and I love his cute smile and hugs.
It is funny because now when I get out the camera he sits on the floor and says, "cheese."

Of course we are cheering really hard for our Boilers!!



He also likes to hold his phone up to his ear and say, "ello".


While Kaylie and I were at the shower Jeremy put together his new mower. He loves to push this around.


Landon loves to jump on the trampoline. He usually does this while I am working out on the treadmill. This is his workout. :)



My little helper (Kaylie) loves to help me feed baby Landon. I thought the look on her face was so cute and Landon is thinking, "why did you let her do this?" :)

Florida

We just returned from a week in Orlando,Florida and had a great time. The weather was a little cool at the beginning of the week (low 60's) but it did get nicer as the week went on (upper 70's). The great thing is it didn't rain so we were still able to do everything we wanted to do. We enjoyed our trip and being with family. We went with my parents.
We took Kaylie to Disney one day by herself. She remembered everything from when we went last year and she is at a really fun age to really enjoy everything. She is really into princesses so she enjoyed watching them but would only take her pictures with the statues, not the real thing. Another day we went back with my parents and took Landon to Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom. He has fun watching all the animals and riding some of the rides. He knows who Mickey is so he had fun seeing his friend as well.
We went to the beach one day. We took a picnic lunch along and had fun just playing in the sand and splashing in the edge of the water. Kaylie is a beach babe and would have played in the sand and water all day if we would have let her. Landon was not so sure about the sand on his feet at first but once he got use to it he had a great time as well. It was a fun day of relaxation and just simple fun.
The other days we just hung out and went to the park, Downtown Disney, and some other fun adventures.
Once again I have several pictures so I will put them up on a slide show. Hopefully this time it won't play the music like it did last time. Sorry about that.
Enjoy...

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. :)

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.