Landon's 1 Year Stats

Last week Landon had his 1 year checkup and here are his stats....

Height: 2'6.5" - 72nd Percentile  (Up from the 37th percentile at his 9 month appointment!)

Weight: 22 lb 2 oz - 61st Percentile

Head: 47 cm - 74th Percentile

 

Since my 1 year post, Landon has added a few tricks.....standing by himself for a longer period of time, climbing the slide stairs and into short chairs.

 

He is also very good and pulling my plant over!

Love ya buddy.

Big Changes

Last weekend, we did a LOT of re-arranging, which resulted in some major changes for all of the kids.  Quite frankly, ALL of them are thrilled!

 Isabelle is in a big girl bed!  She is so, so excited!  And for the most part she had done well staying in bed.  This is actually the morning we switched the beds around - I think if Isabelle could have, she would have gone right to bed.

 Amelia is also ecstatic because according to her - they can  now throw toys at each other.

 And the little man gets an upgrade as well!  He is now in the crib!  He has been doing an awesome job sleeping since he's been in the crib, so I'm guessing its a lot more comfortable! :)

 The first night of sleeping in the beds!   The biggest challenge has been not allowing the girls play in between the beds like acrobats.

The girls have filled their beds with animals, blankets and anything else that can fit!

Now on to potty training :)

Fall Catch-up

A quick, fall catch-up of some pictures that haven't been posted yet.

 The girls dressing up as Anna and Elsa while Landon heads for the shoes

 Happy boy eating....one of his favorite things

 Landon pulling himself up.

 Amelia trying to orchestrate a sibling picture.  There was a serious lack of cooperation much to her dismay.

 Rock picture!

 Oh Landon - the day the boy in you showed itself so plainly.  You saw the track and train going around and made a gleeful beeline toward destroying what your sisters created.  It was so funny

 The box did not hold you back one bit

 Amelia giving up on trying to put the track back together

 Your happy self

 Landon's first bite of ice cream!  We were out on a family adventure of picking pumpkins!

 The girls enjoying their ice cream

 His reaction to the cold was so cute, yet it didn't hold him back from more

 Taking the hay ride to look at pumpkins

 Fun in the leave piles!

 

 

 Landon pulling himself up some more

 Our very chill-laxin' boy in the cart.  This is a common position

 A last swing before the cold comes

 Miss Isabelle makin' a face

The troublesome twosome!

Happy 1st Birthday Landon!

One year - ALREADY!!!  Happy birthday my boy!  This year has gone by so quickly - I still remember waiting to have you in the hospital watching the first snow of the year come down out the window, our wait almost over.   You were quite a surprise, but I cannot imagine life without you in it!  I love you so so so so much Landon! You have completed this family and made it well rounded.   You are a sweet, laid back, happy little guy.  Well, I guess 'little' isn't quite accurate.  You are wearing a mix of 12-18 month clothes and your height is about the same as your sister's at 18 months.   As recent as yesterday, I am calling you a confident climber - you not only climbed the slide stairs, but you stood up and were hanging off the edge.  You also climbed up on the little Ikea chair multiple times.  Unfortunately, you want to go head first off of everything, so I guess we will need to work on that.   I don't think it will be much time before you will be walking - you are trying to stand by yourself more often and you cruise along the furniture and walls. 

Not only do your sisters love you, but I'm also seeing you interact back with them more and more.  Its fun to see you play together and laugh. Your laugh is a deep belly laugh and I cannot get enough of it, as well as your smiles.  You know your name and you will turbo crawl across the floor to get your bottle in the afternoons.

Your hair is still dark brown and your eyes bright blue.  You have about 8 teeth, but they seem to be coming in fast.  You also eat a majority of your food from the table.  You are very aware of when everyone else is getting food, but you aren't - and you do not like that one bit.
I sing you Amazing Grace every night as I put you to bed and I love how sometimes you hum back to me.

As you have gotten older the boy in you is coming out more and more.  You know how to roll cars, destroy anything your sisters' have built and get into anything you shouldn't.

You are just the sweetest boy and I'm so grateful to be your mommy.  Happy Birthday - I am so excited to see how you grow and develop over the next year! I love you so much sweet boy!

 

 

Happy Halloween!

For Halloween, the girls had a couple opportunities to dress up, which they thought was great!

   This year Isabelle was a fairy and Amelia was a ladybug!  The girls were thrilled!

 I went all out with the hair (but this was the only time :)

 The first time was for a local church Halloween party.  The girls were able to make necklaces and other fun activities.

 Isabelle showing me her necklace.

 Then Amelia got to wear her costume to preschool - super exciting!  They had a costume parade and we surprised her by coming to it!  Her face was so priceless once she realized we were there!  She is holding her friend, Sarah's hand.

 Actual Halloween night!  It was freezing!!!!!  This is the only picture of Landon as Pooh Bear - which is kind of a bummer, because he had a cute round belly that made me laugh.  We went around the neighborhood for about 30 minutes, before we were all cold and headed back.

 We (Amelia and mommy) decided to hand out candy.  Amelia poured her entire bag of collected candy into the give away bowl, because she wanted others to have her candy (melt my heart via sweetness!).  Isabelle on the other hand, hoarded hers - no one was getting close!  So funny!  We had a few people stop by, but overall it was pretty quiet.

 These were their pumpkins!  They got to choose the shape and Amelia insisted on scary eyebrows.  Their names?!  Anna for Isabelle's and Elsa for Amelia's pumpkin.

The pumpkins all aglow!

Hiccups

Amelia's take on hiccups?!

"They're automatic!"

Leaves, Parks and Trouble

What a whirlwind these last few weeks have been.  It has been a big time for developments for Landon - as he is ALL over the place these days!

Landon is pulling himself up on anything he can!

 Found Landon standing in his pack 'n play!

 The homemade donuts are a hit!

 Isabelle climbing at the park, she wasn't so sure once she got up there

 Gotta love those spinning things!

 We ran down to the dock and again - once we got on the dock, Isabelle wasn't so sure she liked it

 Landon by the toy chest, digging in to find something to chew on. 

 And Landon is now tall enough to reach things on the girls' tables! 

 Off to the park we go!  The girls had a blast going down together.

 Landon also had fun in the swing.  He giggles like crazy!

 Isabelle spinning Amelia

 Now Isabelle's turn to spin.  Love to see them taking turns!

 Such a sweet little guy

 You can kind of see his top teeth!

 Big smiles

 Pretend sleeping time!

 Our lounger kid.  And yes, he sits like this almost every time!

 Isabelle wanted her picture taken

 Landon and Amelia were playing under the table together.

 Selfie of mommy and Lando

 Landon has a bit of a fetish with shoes and sticking them in his mouth.  He is really starting to move fast from the sunroom to the shoe baskets!  And its not always the army crawl anymore - he is starting to go on all 4's.

 I love this picture of Isabelle and this big odd looking trike.  It doesn't seem like she should be able to ride it, but she can and she moves fast!  Its just hysterical.

 

 No this is not from the summer - just an amazing fall day! 

 We got a visit from Ryan and Nolan!  It was so great to see them and spend some time together!

 Nolan in the chair Great Grandpa made!

 Daddy and Lando

 Big smiles!

 An Isabelle pose

 Isabelle with Grandpa!  Gramma and Grandpa came to visit the beginning of Sept, but for whatever reason, I did not get very many pictures at all!  Fail on mommy's part.

 A little sibling wrestling.  I'm documenting, so one day Isabelle can remember that she was bigger than Landon.

 Landon found a whole new world when he realized there was a window here.  The first time, it was so cute to see him giggle.

 We went on a leave hunt!  Isabelle got lots of dry, crumply leaves and filled her bucket almost immediately

 Amelia didn't fill her bucket and once we talked about doing a leaf project, she only wanted the soft ones.

 

 Leave hunter

 One of Amelia's 'wishes' for the fall was to have a leaf pile to play in.  Most of our leaves haven't fallen yet, so when the neighbor's did and they blew in our yard we took advantage!

 

 Good times bonding!

 

 Group coloring