Easter 2009

We had a great Easter. We spent the weekend at my parents and then came home Sunday and had dinner with Jeremy's family. The kids had a great weekend playing with their cousins and all of Mami and Pa's new toys.

All of the kids loved riding the cars and golf cart. Kaylie was happy driving and riding along. Landon was really funny because he loved the car. He would go up to the door and pull on it and say, "go go"






We also took the older kids bowling. Kaylie really enjoyed her first time bowling and thank goodness for bumpers. :)








Here are the kids all dressed up for church and showing off some of their Easter goodies.
We just signed Kaylie up for T-ball so she is all ready with her new pink bat and glove. She also has pink golf clubs at Mami and Pa's so she can play with the big guys.
Landon got some a new broom. His favorite thing to do is "swee" aka sweep. He also got some new shades.

Spring Fun

I thought I better hurry and write this post about "Spring Fun," before it starts to snow! Can you believe that they are calling for snow in April! Anway, we have been enjoying the great weather the last few weeks and esp. this weekend. Here are a few pictures to update you on our happenings around here.

Here are just a few pictures from the kids around the house goofing around...




If we are outside Landon almost always has a ball and golf club in his hand. As soon as we go outside he says, "off ball, off ball." His dad is starting him early.


Good or bad, probably bad, but Landon loves Fruit Loops. He now goes over to the cabinet that they are in and says, "ott loop oot loop."


Just like mommy, you must always have your sunglasses on.


Kaylie is almost done with Gymnastics for the year. This makes both of us sad because she loves gymnastics and the little girls that are in her class. She also adores her teacher and this past week she even picked out her clothes and the way she did her hair because she thought Miss DD woud like it. That was the first thing she did when she got there was show Miss DD her outfit. It was so cute.

Jumping into the big pit of foam blocks.


Stretching

Great balance.

Doing her favorite "Tip Toes," dance.



Landon also loves playing at the gym while Kaylie does her class. Sometimes he will even join in with the girls.




This past weekend I took Kaylie to the city Easter Egg Hunt. There were a ton of kids there so Kaylie being so shy, she was only able to pick up 2 eggs with all of the other kids running around her. She was sad that her basket only had 2 eggs so while she was napping the Easter bunny came to our house put out eggs for her. She was more than excited about this and talked about it all day. It made Jeremy and I smile so much to watch her true excitment. I don't want this
stage to end! We gave Landon his Easter basket as well but he was more interested in just running around the yard watching Kaylie. Next year will be even more fun when he is into it as well.






We started off Sat. morning by coloring Easter Eggs.







We also made these treat bags for Kaylie and Landon's friends.

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?" :)