Thursday, May 8, 2008
Muffins with Mom
Landon's preschool class had "Muffins with Mom" this morning. The kids had made cute little crafts for us and we ate muffins and had juice together. I was just about out the door after having said goodbye to Landon. He was off playing with his friends when he saw me getting ready to leave. He yelled "Mommy, wait! I have to give a hug and a kiss!" It was so sweet and the best Mom's day present I could ask for.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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.
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.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
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!
Monday, April 7, 2008
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:)
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
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.
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.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Easter Princess
We went to Grandpa's beach house for the week and had a great time. Kai got a pair of Easter bunny ears and she loved wearing them. She thought it was hilarious to see herself in the mirror with them on. She would crawl over to them, pick them up and hand them to the nearest adult with a big smile. We were sitting outside by the pool one day and she had on her hat and sunglasses-the cutest little picture. One of the girls that played soccer for her grandpa is nicknamed "Queen." Bob sent her the picture with the caption "You may be the Queen, but the princess has arrived." Very apropo.
Landon was great the entire weekend-or at least for most of it. He has so much fun in the sand. We dug holes and ran races. His favorite is to stand at the dunes, with your back to the ocean. Then you have to run backwards to the water, then sprint back to the dunes. The boy is very fast. I actually have to run to keep up with him. He completely wore out grandpa.
Kai was holding onto a side table beside the couch. I didn't think she was strong enough to do anything. I was wrong. She pulled the table over on herself and fell flat on the hard-wood floor. She is fine, but was pretty upset for awhile. It also caused her "full" diaper to explode. She had pooh all over her back and I mean about 1/4 inch thick. But, she was crying so hard and I was afraid she was hurt, that I held onto her to comfort her. I didn't realize what happened until I felt something on my arm and then realized my pant leg was covered as well. Again, I couldn't put her down because she was screaming. Anyway, after numerous wipes and changes of clothes, she is fine and our clothes are washed.
Landon was great the entire weekend-or at least for most of it. He has so much fun in the sand. We dug holes and ran races. His favorite is to stand at the dunes, with your back to the ocean. Then you have to run backwards to the water, then sprint back to the dunes. The boy is very fast. I actually have to run to keep up with him. He completely wore out grandpa.
Kai was holding onto a side table beside the couch. I didn't think she was strong enough to do anything. I was wrong. She pulled the table over on herself and fell flat on the hard-wood floor. She is fine, but was pretty upset for awhile. It also caused her "full" diaper to explode. She had pooh all over her back and I mean about 1/4 inch thick. But, she was crying so hard and I was afraid she was hurt, that I held onto her to comfort her. I didn't realize what happened until I felt something on my arm and then realized my pant leg was covered as well. Again, I couldn't put her down because she was screaming. Anyway, after numerous wipes and changes of clothes, she is fine and our clothes are washed.
Friday, March 14, 2008
standing and thinking about walking
Kai is pulling herself up like a champ. She can let go and stand by herself for a good but before she has to grab onto something. She is thinking about walking but can't quite get the coordination.
Landon was riding his scooter with his friend who lives down the street. She is 10 months older. They were at the top of a little hill-very little. He takes off like a shot as fast as her can. She started off slowly and hadn't gotten 2 feet when she fell and started crying like the world was ending. Landon reaches the bottom and loses it. He knows to jump off if he can't stop so he does and his scooter keeps going. I am know about 30 yards from him and he starts yelling "mommy!" I yell right back and tell him "you're fine!" so he stops fussing and runs to save his scooter, meanwhile, the little girl is still crying. It cracks me up the difference between boys and girls. She had a little scrape on her and he had no marks so she was hurt worse. The next day, Landon was playing outside by himself when I hear a very loud scream. I run to him and he says he hurt his back "how did you do that?" I ask. He points to a broken branch on a tree that is lying up against our fence. He has a pretty good scratch on his back. he then tells me he tried to climb the tree and fell off. We now have an agreement that won't try to climb a tree unless dad is around to help.
I took Landon to kid's yoga the other day-didn't make it too long and I had to take him out of the class. Yes my child had to be removed. Just like at his 1st soccer practice an he cried for the 1st 20 minutes. I am going to start teaching a new kid's class next week and he will need to go with me. Hopefully he gets better at it, just like at soccer where he is now doing great and loving it.
I just realized I have never written down anything bout the night Kai was born. I did for Landon, but not her, so here it goes. She was due on June 22, which was a Friday, but the doc didn't think it would take that long. The week before Diana had been out of town and my parents weren't there yet. She gets back and they arrive. I see the doctor on Monday and she says it will still be a few days. Then I start feeling a little strange that evening after dinner. About 1 in the morning it starts to get intense. Chad manages to doze a little, but not me. At 3 I say it is time to call the doctor an go to the hospital. We tell my mom and off we go. It is a 30 minute drive. We saw lots of cops-I dared them to pull us over, but Chad wasn't driving that fast-though he offered to speed up. When we get there, there is no one in the lobby so Chad pulls the car off to the side and walks in with me. Of course there are no wheel chairs as we go to the elevators with my contractions coming every 3 minutes. We finally make it to the maternity ward and still no wheelchair. We sign in and I get to the room about 3:45. Pretty much immediately they start the iv and the antibiotics because it is obvious the baby is on her way. Did i mention that we had just decided to change her name? It was going to be Kai Elizabeth, but is now Kai Emily. (sorry Lex). Move on to 6:30 and the doc says she is coming and will be out in 20 minutes-fast forward 35 and she arrives just after 7 am. Kai had her fist up by her mouth and that was what had made it take longer. She still has that hand up by her mouth all the time when she sucks her thumb. The 2nd time around was much faster and much easier than the 1st. The recovery was much less as well. I was up and walking around a little the next day.
Kai will be 9 months old next week. This morning I was sitting with her in the glider in the nursery when she pointed to a book (Goodnight Moon) We were reading it together when Landon came in, still very sleepy. He leaned up next to me and we read it again, it was very sweet. Landon is becoming such a big boy, it amazes me.
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Landon was riding his scooter with his friend who lives down the street. She is 10 months older. They were at the top of a little hill-very little. He takes off like a shot as fast as her can. She started off slowly and hadn't gotten 2 feet when she fell and started crying like the world was ending. Landon reaches the bottom and loses it. He knows to jump off if he can't stop so he does and his scooter keeps going. I am know about 30 yards from him and he starts yelling "mommy!" I yell right back and tell him "you're fine!" so he stops fussing and runs to save his scooter, meanwhile, the little girl is still crying. It cracks me up the difference between boys and girls. She had a little scrape on her and he had no marks so she was hurt worse. The next day, Landon was playing outside by himself when I hear a very loud scream. I run to him and he says he hurt his back "how did you do that?" I ask. He points to a broken branch on a tree that is lying up against our fence. He has a pretty good scratch on his back. he then tells me he tried to climb the tree and fell off. We now have an agreement that won't try to climb a tree unless dad is around to help.
I took Landon to kid's yoga the other day-didn't make it too long and I had to take him out of the class. Yes my child had to be removed. Just like at his 1st soccer practice an he cried for the 1st 20 minutes. I am going to start teaching a new kid's class next week and he will need to go with me. Hopefully he gets better at it, just like at soccer where he is now doing great and loving it.
I just realized I have never written down anything bout the night Kai was born. I did for Landon, but not her, so here it goes. She was due on June 22, which was a Friday, but the doc didn't think it would take that long. The week before Diana had been out of town and my parents weren't there yet. She gets back and they arrive. I see the doctor on Monday and she says it will still be a few days. Then I start feeling a little strange that evening after dinner. About 1 in the morning it starts to get intense. Chad manages to doze a little, but not me. At 3 I say it is time to call the doctor an go to the hospital. We tell my mom and off we go. It is a 30 minute drive. We saw lots of cops-I dared them to pull us over, but Chad wasn't driving that fast-though he offered to speed up. When we get there, there is no one in the lobby so Chad pulls the car off to the side and walks in with me. Of course there are no wheel chairs as we go to the elevators with my contractions coming every 3 minutes. We finally make it to the maternity ward and still no wheelchair. We sign in and I get to the room about 3:45. Pretty much immediately they start the iv and the antibiotics because it is obvious the baby is on her way. Did i mention that we had just decided to change her name? It was going to be Kai Elizabeth, but is now Kai Emily. (sorry Lex). Move on to 6:30 and the doc says she is coming and will be out in 20 minutes-fast forward 35 and she arrives just after 7 am. Kai had her fist up by her mouth and that was what had made it take longer. She still has that hand up by her mouth all the time when she sucks her thumb. The 2nd time around was much faster and much easier than the 1st. The recovery was much less as well. I was up and walking around a little the next day.
Kai will be 9 months old next week. This morning I was sitting with her in the glider in the nursery when she pointed to a book (Goodnight Moon) We were reading it together when Landon came in, still very sleepy. He leaned up next to me and we read it again, it was very sweet. Landon is becoming such a big boy, it amazes me.
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