Landon is sick

Landon has this weird illness. He will stop for a second and look like he may have burped up something into his throat, then he screams for a few minutes about it hurting. He then says his tummy, throat and head hurt all at once and wants to lay down. After about an hour, he just gets up and is fine. He did this today and at my brother's house when he was with his cousins and grandparents-in other words, when he was having tons of fun and wouldn't want to take a break. He id it again today, this time while we were at the playground, getting ready to play hide-and-seek, again, when he wouldn't want to take a break. I don't know, we hope it won't happen again.

He spent the weekend with his 4 cousins and had a blast. He got a new bike and wants to ride it all the time-too bad he can't use the breaks yet!

Kai is up and walking. She can take around 6 or 7 steps before she falls. She is getting the hang of it and I'm sure she will be up and running soon. Landon helped me plant my veggie garden last week. It is doing great-too bad it is supposed to get into the low 30's tonight-late April in North Carolina and I may have to cover my plants! Hope they make it, I don't want to start over. My lettuce is growing well. I had my 1st salad from the garden last week and it was so tender an sweet. Landon tried it from the plants and was not impressed. He loves to tell people about the veggies he planted. It will me great when we can just go outside an pick a snack from the vines.

Getting lost.

I was at the YMCA last week to teach a kids yoga class that Landon is in with me. I left him in the room with a counselor to go get my stuff. When I returned 10 minutes later, Landon was no where to be found and the counselor had no idea he was missing-that sent out an alert among the staff-we all know what to do-drop everything and find the kid. It took a few minutes and quite a few staff, but finally a member heard a little child screaming for his mommy in the bathroom. Landon had run to the bathroom without telling anyone-couldn't reach the light switch and couldn't open the door himself-it is very heavy. I have no idea who the member was that found him, but want to send a great big GOD BLESS YOU! I was very calm when it happened, but later that night I about had a meltdown. Until (not unless) it happens to your child, you have no idea how it feels, but every parent will experience it at some point. Luckily, we were at a safe place where everyone knows him. It happened to my brother when we were at Disney World, I was worried, but now I can't imagine how bad it was for my sister-in-law. My niece was only gone for a minute, but it seemed like forever. The night it happened, Landon came to me and said "Mommy, I was yelling for you. You should have been there." How heart-breaking is that! It did lead to a good conversation about what to do if he gets lost and can't find me. He started to learn our phone number but then decided he needed to have his own and made up a number. Not sure what country code he was using, but I bet it would cost a fortune to place that call!

Pictures finally!!!!!

I finally got around to downloading pics-thanks for the dig Judy. The 1st is of Kai in Landon's favorite (and Dad's) soccer jersye. The 2nd is Landon in our only snow of the year and the 3rd is Kai sorting socks-see, I told you my kids are cute:)

Wii bowling

I got Chad a Wii for his birthday.-very good investment. Landon loves it (not to mention Chad and I do too). We can actually play a game together and not have to let Landon win. he can almost beat me in bowling. He is so funny about it. He really gets into moving the controller. He also likes tennis, but is a little too rambunctious with that one. We have to make sure Kai is not around-her head is the perfect height for him to whack!-which he has done a few times.

Landon wiped out on is scooter-I could just see his arm breaking, but after 3 minutes and 4 kisses, he was fine. I didn't even see his scratches until he was in the tubby. He is so tough.