Dedication Day

Today was a beautiful fall day outside. It was also Child Dedication at our Church this morning. Most of our family made it for the short dedication. I want to thank you all for coming, I know it didn't last long but it meant a lot to Tye and I for you to be there. Our Pastor preached on marriage today and how it is in trouble in our Country. I love how he doesn't try to be politicaly correct and will speak from The Word of God. Check out Ephesians 5:22-24;32-33. He also touched on the parent/child relationship. Matthew 7:11. I loved how the message went with dedicating Landon today or I should say it was really Tye and I making a promise to raise Landon in a Christian home and the Church to help us and hold us accountable. I find that both will be very important throughout his life. I have also been learning how important my marriage is in raising Landon and our future children. It is amusing how weeks before this sermon today things have been working in my life to show me how important it really is. Here are a few pics from today.








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Twilight

I got a girl's night out with my mom and sister tonight. Our wonderful husbands stayed home with each of our small boys. THANK YOU guys! My mom was so sweet to treat us to dinner at Tye's favorite place Applebees. Since he worked there through College we haven not returned to that Restaurant since. Then we went to the movie Twilight along with a bunch of pre-teen girls. They did make the movie more fun by cheering when Edward made his appearance and oow'ing and aww'ing through every kiss seen. I still prefer the book over the movie but considering the books content they did a good job with it. If you have not read the book you must read it before going to the movie or you will be lost. Now I am ready for the sequels! Landon had a wonderful day today. His great grandad came and kept him for a few hours while I went to an appointment and when I got back my Grandmother had come over too with food for him and were stuffing his face. I really think they don't believe I feed the kid..lol I took him with me to my office to pick up and drop off things and took him in for the first time not in a stroller. He was loving all the phones in the office and found a new challenge of climbing the steep staircase that he was pulled off of. My Listing Coordinator now understands why he is always strapped in a stroller when we go in! Lan played with Daddy all night while I was out and was fast asleep when I got home. It is also Lando's 20 month birthday today! I can't believe how fast the time is flying by.

Blizzard

This morning while I was getting work done like usual I gave Landon his cup of dry cereal for breakfast. He was being very good and playing nicely. He kept coming back to me for "moooore momma pweese" cereal. I thought to myself this kid is really hungry today but kept refilling at request just delighted he was actually wanting to eat! I get up and go check on him in the living room and I discover him dropping cereal piece by piece into Tye's beloved air filter. The minute Lan's eyes catch me looking he turns it on and a blizzard of cereal pieces fly through the air. It scared Landon and I couldn't help but laugh. I hope Tye can shake all the pieces out when he gets home this evening!

I upgraded today

I have never been one for tech savvy gadgets other than GPS so I don't get lost every two seconds. Never understood it and never wanted to learn how to operate things. Well after a very very long morning and picking Lan up from preschool somewhere between the car and his class my cell phone disappeared. I looked over the school parking lot twice and tore my car apart but nothing. My little worth nothing cell phone was gone. I don't care a thing about the actual phone, it is that little SIM chip in there that holds ALL my contact numbers from the past 5 years that I want back. I don't understand how a cell phone can just disappear into thin air! I am praying someone found it and will turn it in tomorrow. Then I left L with his great grandparents that were gracious enough to keep him while I went to my closing today. Still without my phone but Grandma let me take hers with me. Since Lan was doing so good I decided to stop at AT&T after my closing to get a new phone since it is my business line and only way to communicate without having a house phone. I decided to upgrade my little self and get a Blackberry. The thing is hard to figure out! It is more like a computer than a phone! It took me five minutes to make my first call on it. I am catching up with the times now and will have Internet with me everywhere I go. Don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing. I do have 30 days to take it back so if I am still lost with this magic device in a few weeks it is going back! Now this is one phone Landon will NOT be touching!

Never to early

to start teaching a willing 19 month old to vacuum. Landon LOVES vacuum cleaners. He has been crazy about them since he could crawl at 6 months old. As we were cleaning the house last night now that Landon is finally starting to feel better again Tye pulled out the vacuum and Lan was instantly excited. When I came back from the bedroom into the living room Tye was letting Lan vacuum the living room. The kid was having a blast! I grabbed the camera and started snapping away and took a few short videos. The front end of the vacuum was not touching the floor the entire time but what does that matter, I just hope he enjoys this as much when he is 7 or 8 years old! Who am I kidding by that age it will feel like punishment, but I will take what I can get right now in this moment.
I am looking forward to this week of having NO sickies in the house and resuming life as we know it. It is sure to be a busy week after being house bound for seven days. I would love to go to Church this morning but I am going to make sure Lan is 100% better before being around other toddlers.

My boy is sick

Landon has been so sick this week. It started with croup last week and then when on Sunday he acted very well, by late Monday he was running a low grade fever. Tuesday morning it was up to 103.8 so off to the Pedi we went. Landon was very lethargic and whining. Dr. T took a good look at Lan and said he has a swollen spleen and that it is either mono or another viral infection. No cure other than Motrin and Tylenol and of course time. Well here we are late Thursday night just when I thought he was getting better now his head is very congested. He hasn't eaten a meal since Monday and is now not wanting to drink anything because it is hard for him to breathe when he is trying to swallow. I am going to take him back to the Pedi tomorrow to make sure that he doen't have an infection on top of what he already has. Last night he was up and down a million times screaming when he would wake up. It is almost midnight and he has already been up twice, so it looks like another long night here. I just want my baby boy to feel good again!

A few more videos

These were taken on election night when we were sitting up for the results.

All Boy

I was not exposed to boys very much at all before having Landon. I have all sisters and one step brother, so the thought of a boy scared me a bit. I wasn't sure there would be any huge differences in the early years, but I was wrong. Landon is ALL boy. Cars, trains, danger, balls, golf clubs used as weapons is the norm in our house these days. It seems the more dangerous an item looks the more Landon wants to play with it. We went to the farm today which now that we are back I am not sure it was a great idea since he is recovering from croup. All he wanted to do was sit in Grandaddy's car and "drive" it. If he was not playing in the car he wanted to try to pick up logs from a cut up tree that were bigger than he is. I decided since he was so into pretend driving that Lan and I would take a drive in my SUV through the fields to visit the cows. I let him sit in my lap and steer us through the pasture. I am sure it was a site to see from far away. We got out and moo'ed at the cows until I think we upset a bull because he came to close for comfort, a few feet in front of us. I am normally not worried but I wasn't sure how I would wave him off while holding a 19 month old in my arms so we retreated back to the safety of the car. Tye was working on fixing a tire on our new but old riding lawn mower. Hearing my dad and Tye talk about it you would think it was the super stars of riding lawn mowers but check out the video and get a good chuckle on what it really looks like. The men got the idea to let Landon steer it around and he was thrilled to drive around on Grandaddy's lap for 30 minutes and screamed "more, more" when it was time to get off. I thought I might one day be able to live in this small town surrounded by nothing but land and a dairy farm but I was reminded today that I am a city girl and should stay put!


This is when we happily got back in the car.