We had a great day. Wednesday night we told Landon kind of joking that we didn't want to see him in the morning until we came to get him. He sometimes comes down pretty early. Greg looked on the camera on his phone and Landon was out of bed with his light on. He was waiting upstairs for us to come up.
We had the turkey in the oven by 7:30. The kids and I started watching the Thanksgiving Day parade. The first thing was a bunch of dancers doing different types of dancing, some drill team like, some country dancing, etc. At the end Kasey was clapping. Landon was saying I don't like this. They both liked the the big balloons and the Sesame Street float. We watched that one in slow motion so we could see all of the characters.
Landon was watching the A&M basketball game on TV. He was really into the game. He yelled for the Aggies. Telling us score updates and we were working on various things. I try to teach him the terminology of the games, and he's pretty good at picking up.
We had Grammy, Gramps, Grandma, Pops, Nanny and Cindy over for Thanksgiving lunch. Every brought different things, and everything turned out great. Wednesday Landon went to Grandmas and they ended up making several pies for Thanksgiving - pecan, pecan with chocolate, pumpkin (2 made from real pumpkins - no can), and an apple pie - all from scratch. Needless to say for the 10 of us there was plenty of dessert!!
Right after lunch Greg and Doug left to drive to Austin for the A&M vs Texas game. Grandma and Pops took Kasey for the afternoon so that Landon and I could make cakes for Kasey's birthday. Landon is a big help. He really likes flattening out the ingredients in the cup measurements, he poors in the ingredients, he can stir (dry ingredients), he broke an egg and put it in (first one he did great, the 2nd on he dropped on the counter). I tried picking up the egg and getting it to the sink. I spilled. Landon thought that was funny. He also helps with the mixer. He really is a good helper!
Janice and Cindy brought Kasey back about 6:30. Both cakes were out of the oven (turned out well) and Lady hasn't gotten to them... Landon and I had started watching the Cowboys game and they started doing better, but didn't pull it off. Landon was also really into that game. Really excited when they would do something good. Yelling for the Cowboys.
Kasey, Landon and I started watching the A&M game, and Landon wanted to go watch in the bedroom. It was kind of chilly so we went in there. Kasey started getting into the game as well. She would say Touchdown, Mommy Touchdown. She'd also say go, go, go. She said Aggies and tried to say Gig'em. Looks like we've gotten through to Landon, every time they would show Texas fans doing hookem horns he would say something like ugh not that again. We had fun watching. I let the kids stay up til half time then got them to bed.
Now I'm writing this instead of making icing for Kasey's cakes...
11/24 - Landon updates
Landon is in school at AppleCreek Preschool in a PreK program. He is in what they call mobile Prek where the class moves around to different rooms for their activities. Landon really likes it. He has a great teacher Ms Nancy, and only 7 kids in his class so the kids are pretty close to each other. Landon has a class social every month. I try to go to them if I can which is fun to see the kids and the parents.
Landon is going to be playing indoor soccer this winter. He keeps asking about playing football and tball so we'll have to work on that for the spring.
He's also still in soccer tots once a week.
Landon has gone with us to almost all of the home A&M football games. He really likes A&M and the Cowboys. He doesn't like Texas (he calls it that other school).
Most of the time Landon is really good. He's very curious about things. He wants to learn how to spell words and read some words. He loves rhymes and asked about things that rhyme all the time.
Most of the time he's good with Kasey and will help her with things. Sometimes he gets very competitive and upset if she gets to do something and he doesn't. He's pretty emotional. He also has his moments where he pushes the limits with not listening, jumping, throwing, etc. He is a 4 year old boy after all.
We try to get him to make decisions on what he wants to do or eat. Sometimes he has trouble with this, but does ok. Lately he's become scared of sleeping. Not really sure if it's bad dreams or just a reason to stay up later. We'll have to see how it goes.
11/24 - Landon updates
Landon is in school at AppleCreek Preschool in a PreK program. He is in what they call mobile Prek where the class moves around to different rooms for their activities. Landon really likes it. He has a great teacher Ms Nancy, and only 7 kids in his class so the kids are pretty close to each other. Landon has a class social every month. I try to go to them if I can which is fun to see the kids and the parents.
Landon is going to be playing indoor soccer this winter. He keeps asking about playing football and tball so we'll have to work on that for the spring.
He's also still in soccer tots once a week.
Landon has gone with us to almost all of the home A&M football games. He really likes A&M and the Cowboys. He doesn't like Texas (he calls it that other school).
Most of the time Landon is really good. He's very curious about things. He wants to learn how to spell words and read some words. He loves rhymes and asked about things that rhyme all the time.
Most of the time he's good with Kasey and will help her with things. Sometimes he gets very competitive and upset if she gets to do something and he doesn't. He's pretty emotional. He also has his moments where he pushes the limits with not listening, jumping, throwing, etc. He is a 4 year old boy after all.
We try to get him to make decisions on what he wants to do or eat. Sometimes he has trouble with this, but does ok. Lately he's become scared of sleeping. Not really sure if it's bad dreams or just a reason to stay up later. We'll have to see how it goes.
11/19-21 - Greg went to College Station with Doug on Friday so it was just me and the kids. Friday we had dinner with Grammy and Gramps, and of course the kids fell asleep on the way home. they both woke up when we got home though and weren't sure about going back to sleep. I was able to get everything packed up that night. Saturday morning I had both kids dressed, the car completely packed to go out of town and leaving the house at 8:04am. I was able to work out, shower and get ready at the gym then we were meeting Grammy at Lowe's for Landon's social. We got there and checked in (the Lowe's activity was for Landon's social with his school friends), but we didn't see any of his friend. We sat down and I looked up the email to determine we were at the wrong Lowe's. So we went to the car, got all of Kasey's stuff transferred to Grammy's car and Landon and I went to the correct Lowe's. The activity was fun. They gave him a work apron with goggles and he got a little hammer to make a snowman. I would line up the little nails and Landon would hammer things in. He actually did really well and enjoyed it. When you took hammer back they kids got a badge.
After Lowe's Landon and headed down Central to find a sonic to grab a sandwich and some ice then headed out of town to College station for the A&M vs Nebraska game.
At the tailgate in College station, Landon was playing and rough housing with a little boy that was 6. He came over a little later with his nose bleeding and crying. this was his first bloody nose and I think he was more scared than anything. the other little boys Mimi asked if a brownie would make it better and Landon thought it would.
The game was really good and A&M beat 8th ranked Nebraska which was good. It was a late game starting at 7pm. At 10pm Landon was out even though the Stadium was very noisy. They even made comments on TV that they thought Kyle Field was the loudest stadium.
Kasey was staying with Grammy/Mimi and Gramps. Saturday Grammy and Kasey were at the mall and she was changing her diaper and she told her I love you. This is the first time she said this. When I called later she said it to Landon and I as well. Very cute and sweet.
Kasey is really being more verbal. Susan from the gym commented on it this weekend but we are noticing as well. When Landon says things she starts saying the same thing and repeats it several times. There is good and bad to this.
11/17 - We went to the pet store tonight to get lady some treats and see the animals. Kasey told us frog and snake. When we went by the mice, and guinea pigs - she'd say momma mouse or pig. She's started calling me mommy some instead of just momma.
11/14 - Kasey said first 3 syllable word - bumblebee. She said it and turned to Greg and said Daddy bumblebee. She was very proud of herself.
11/3 - Landon woke up in the middle of the night last night with really bad cough. He isn't feeling 100% and has some fever as of this evening.
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