Monday, March 28, 2011

Landon's 2 Year Milestones

31 pounds (83%)
35 inches long (67%)
head circumference - 20 (93%)

Here are just a few of the fun things he's up to these days:

He wears 2T/3T shirts and 2T pants and shorts. I think he’s built just like his dada!
On his 2nd birthday he was wearing a size 4 diaper. We’ve moved up to 5’s since.
He’s still a GREAT eater…his very favorite foods are cheese and "bwue"/"gwape" sicles.
He also likes beef ravioli, cheese ravioli, yogurt, macaroni and cheese, hot dogs, ham, turkey, carrots, bananas, kiwi, strawberries, melon, and lots of other things.
He has more words than we can count. He also has several two or more word phrases. One of his latest phrases from just this past weekend is “it’s my turn now”. He said this while I was playing Skip-Bo with his cousin Shawna and her friend Taelor who were here visiting! He also says “cool momma” when something is cool. His little voice is the sweetest thing and we love hearing him say new words and phrases all the time.
He can name several animals from his animal book and can also make their sound
He likes to work puzzles and is pretty good at them!
He can count to 3 – and does so every night at bath time. Oooone, twooo, freeee, GO!
He knows a few colors.  bwue, wed, ellow, onge and geen
He loves his “vroom vroom” and rides it all over the house and outside
He takes one nap in the afternoon for about an hour and a half
He loves preschool! The friends he talks the most about are Luke and Liam.
His favorite shows are Dino Dan, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Dance-a-lot Robot and Wonder Pets
He loves to read and one of his favorite books is “Goodnight Moon”
He really likes to listen to the radio in the car and before we taught him to say “radio please” he would scream until we turn it up loud!
I have no idea how many teeth he has…the one that was knocked loose is still hanging in there!
He loves to feed the kitty and can just about do this all by himself
He loves to play outside…and especially loves the water hose and blowing bubbles

And last but not least…he’s going to be a BIG BROTHER!
We are excited to announce that Baby Battreal #2 is due on October 29th!

BB2 is 7 weeks and 1 day old in this picture so as you can see he/she has some growing to do! We are so happy and feel so blessed!

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Landon's Birthday Party at The Wonder Place!

So, last year Mother Nature was not my best friend when she sent heaps of snow and ice which caused us to move Landon's party from a Saturday to a Sunday...luckily it all turned out great and Mother Nature redeemed herself this year by sending absolutely gorgeous weather for his 2nd birthday party!

We had Landon's 2nd birthday party at The Wonder Place.  The Wonder Place is a super cool place here in Little Rock that has tons of fun play things for kiddos.  They have different party themes to choose from.  We chose Little Picassos which was an art themed party and the kiddos got to paint as their activity before cake and ice cream.

Landon and his friends had a super time playing...and everyone but Landon seemed to enjoy the cake and ice cream.  He threw a fit when we started to sing Happy Birthday and brought him a cupcake with a candle to blow out.  Apparently the kid isn't fond of being the center of attention!  He didn't get that from his mommy who sometimes forgets that the world doesn't totally revolve around her! Ha!

Here are a few fun pictures from our fun day!




I made a photo banner using a picture from each month from the year Landon was 1.


Party Favor Cookies from our favorite baker in Lavaca!

Landon's Birthday Banner that my friend Erin made last year.

Cupcakes!

No cake momma!

Pwease can I just go pway some more!?

Landon had a run-in with a box earlier in the week and had a boo-boo on his eye.

The Wonder Place is cool!

Best buddies playing in the water!

Wow!  How does it do that?
Wow Dada!  This thing is just really neat!

Dinner anyone?

Livi and Evelyn were there.

Lily came too!

Luke came with his mommy, daddy and brothers Sam and Jack all the way from Springdale!
Neighbor Ben came!

Baby Kate was there!


Audrey came with her mommy.

Sweet Madeline! 

Cousin Asher!

Mary Haven brought her new iPod Touch...she's the coolest big kid ever!


Burke!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Bubbles!

Landon LOVES bubbles!  Last week we broke out a new bottle and it wasn't long before they were in a puddle on our back step.  The remains stayed on our back step for a while and every time Landon saw them he'd say "bubboos gone".

So, since I'm the coolest mom ever I bought the kid some more "bubboos".  The spill proof kind.  Sunday afternoon we gave em a try and had a little photo shoot at the same time.  I took something like 170 pictures and these are the ones that turned out...and I'm pretty proud of them!  I'm really starting to love photography and I especially love the new lens that Santa brought!


These spill proof "buboos" are cool!
Show me some bubbles!

Cool!
Woohoo!  2 Bubbles!


Let's chase em Momma!

Wonder if I can touch them!

Yep, I can!  

I'm going to try to catch another one!
 
Juice break!  Blowing and chasing bubbles is hard work man!