Landonisms

Landon says the darnedest things. I often wish I had something to write with, or could reach my phone to record it, because I know I'll want to remember them. Here's some of my recent favorites:


While looking at freezers at Sears, Landon opened one that was lit with blue LED lights. He gasped and said "Momma...it's beautiful."


His sense of time is a work in progress and his favorite sayings are, "We'll do that tomorrow" and "I'll show you in a couple weeks."


Landon is very observant and notices even the slightest changes around him. If something is new or changed, he'll point it out right away. The same goes for hearing things. Whenever there's a "different" noise it's "Momma, what's that noise?"


He's discovered that it's funny to make his voice really deep and contort his face while he talks. He sounds like a grown man sometimes.


If I'm not sure what he's talking about, or I don't understand him, he gets a little exasperated and says "I show you momma."


Every night while we tuck him into bed we pick different people (or things) to sing "Happy Birthday" to. He just loves that song. My favorite part is waiting to see what he'll pick.


When he gets hurt, or one of the dogs bump him he yells "That's not OK!" Jim and I sometimes hear this if we upset Landon.


Every day is an adventure. We love this boy!

Holidays

It's that time of year...Thanksgiving is next week and the Christmas bonanza has begun.

We're hosting Thanksgiving for the first time this year (I feel so grown up) and I just ordered our Christmas cards.

We're doing some Landon shopping tomorrow night (I love a date night that includes shopping) and getting in Thanksgiving cooking mode.

We recently had new family pictures taken during a mini-session. We're pretty cute!

Halloween

We had a fabulous Halloween and really enjoyed all of the fun events leading up to it. We took a family trip to the pumpkin patch where we picked out pumpkins for our porch and 14 little pumpkins for a class project. I love being able to contribute to Landon's classroom fun and learning, and his teacher is always very appreciative.

The Friday before Halloween Landon's school held its annual Harvest Carnival. This was the third year we attended and the first time Landon really enjoyed the games and the treats. He knows what candy is now and had no problem waiting in line for his turn to earn some loot!

Halloween was on a Wednesday, which made it a little tricky logistically. Luckily, everything went really smoothly. I picked up a pizza on the way home for a quick dinner. After we finished eating and cleaned up, Landon put on his costume—he's a big fan of the movie Cars and the main character is Lightening McQueen. His costume is a race car driver with McQueen and other characters on the front. A few houses on our street go all out with the decorating. One of them had a Mickey Mouse decoration that Landon was enamoured with, so that was our first stop. We went to seven houses and Landon made quite a haul. I was so proud of him. We'd been practicing saying "Trick or Treat," but I wasn't sure how he'd actually do walking up to a strange house and talking to a stranger. He was great and even remembered to say "thank you" without being prompted.

When we got home we handed out candy for about 30 minutes and then it was bedtime. To avoid the doorbell and dogs barking we put the basket of candy on our porch. Needless to say, it was gone very quickly!

A few other fun and random thoughts...

• Landon is really into Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on the Disney Channel. We've also found lots of episodes on YouTube. He knows all of the characters and likes to do the Hotdog Dance at the end.
• He is doing a great job of relating one thing to another. He often says, "Momma, look at that...it kind of looks like" (fill in the blank) I'm always amazed at the correlations he makes.
• I have toddler songs on my phone that we listen to during our commute. He has his favorites and really gets into singing them. His current favorite is Little Miss Muffett, Hot Cross Buns and I've Been Working on the Railroad. We went out to dinner to have Pho (Vietnamese Noodle Soup). On the way there, he said "Momma, I'm going to have hot cross buns with my soup." Ha! I laugh multiple times a day at my son's humor and creative mind.
• Landon can count from 1 to 14 without any help! He knows all of the numbers from 14 to 20, but often mixes them up. We're working on writing and spelling his name and letters.

ABCs

I know that Landon knows most of his ABCs, but I'd never heard him recite the entire thing alone. We were reading an alphabet book and he did it. He did it a second time for the camera. He's a little sick, so his voice is hoarse, but it's SO cute!