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Landon sings his school songs all the time. The song they sing before leaving goes Landon, Landon Jump up and down, Jump up and down now go and get your backpack. They do this for each of the kids, and so Landon sings it with different names. Another one is open shut them, open shut them now it's time for snack. Landon will sing this with different things that its time for. There is also a handwashing song that he sings sometimes when we wash his hands.

He seems to know names of many of his school mates - can tell their names at pick up

Open shut them open shut them now it's time for snack - we started singing that for bath time. We'll see if that helps him want to take a bath more. often he wants to play and not take a bath

Landon is not going pee pee in the potty much, but I don't really want to push it. There is a lot changing for him with school starting, changing rooms, new furniture and a baby on the way He seems to be sleeping better in bigger bed. when he was in toddler bed he's get up fairly early and when he moved around would sometimes drop his feet out of the bed. Now in a bigger bed he'll sometimes sleep until almost 9am, and he has lots of room to move around. With his new furniture he'll have a full bed to sleep in so that should be good.

We had the Stars hockey game on the other night and Landon was humming the National Anthem. He seems to really like that song.

He Loves the Aggie Band music and asks for it in the car all the time. The CD we have has several songs including the National Anthem and Aggie War Hymn. It also has the Spirit of Aggieland which has some yells at the end. Landon will all of the sudden go Fight, fight, fight, fight fight (which is part of the yell). It's cute.

Landon has also started saying ok a lot. I think he gets it from me, but he'll tell us something and then ok after his sentence. It's really cute.

We're making good progress, Landon got to see Kasey move

Yesterday (10/7) We had the carpet replaced in the 3 bedrooms upstairs. This was the only carpet left to replace from when we moved in. We went with a darker color than the rest of the house, and we really like it. It does show a difference because the at the doors it meets up with the other carpet, but it still looks ok. The kids will have new carpet in their rooms which will hopefully last for a while. Now we just have to get stuff organized upstairs.

Landon is now in his new room and bathroom. He's in the largest room upstairs. It's painted blue, and the theme of the room will be sports. We still have to get his furniture in and finish decorating, but he seems to like his new room. With the work yesterday the fan was on high, and so Landon woke up at 5:30 this morning thinking it was light (bright night light) and he was cold. I turned his fan down, covered up the night light some (I actually covered up the camera as well, oops), and covered him up. He went back to sleep until 8:30ish when Greg needed to wake him up to go.

Kasey's room is painted green. It's actually a pretty bright green, but the new darker carpet actually tones it down some. I really like it. We'll put some of the furniture in Kasey's room, and some of it will come downstairs where she'll sleep for a while. We'll decorate her room with the Maroon Winnie the Poor set that Landon used. I figured since we'll replace it in a couple years anyway it wasn't worth spending another couple hundred on new stuff.

Landon's old room will become a playroom upstairs. It will have the bookshelf, toychest, and we'll figure out what else will go in there.

The kids will have their own bathrooms. Kasey's is bigger which probably makes sense because girls have more stuff for the bathroom.

Greg did a great job painting the rooms and moving all of the stuff out to get ready for the carpet install. Hopefully we can start getting stuff back in order before to long. Although with our crazy Oct schedule it will be tough.

After Landon waking up this morning I went to work out, and then had a conference call at 7:30am. luckily my next call was cancelled so I got to come downstairs and sit with Landon while he ate breakfast. He was able to see Kasey move this morning for the first time. Usually he's to busy to be patient and watch, but this morning he did. I said look at my tummy. He said, it's Kasey. Then he said that Kasey was going to come out of Mommy's tummy. I told him we had a couple months.

Kasey update

I had an appointment with Jeanean today. All is well Kasey's heartbeat was in the 150s, and it looks like she's getting into position (head down). Previously she has been sideways quite a bit. This usually happens around 32 weeks. It doesn't mean labor is near.

With her head down her back is along my left hand side and her feet are on my right side. It's kind of neat to know now if it's an elbow, bottom or foot moving. She can still switch sides (back being along right side), but she'll likely stay head down.

Jeanean asked about getting records for our vacation so I told her we weren't able to go. I keep being reminded of our vacation that didn't happen. It's in big red marker on my calendar at work, and people keep asking me if I'm supposed to be on vacation. Oh well we'll get through.

Landon's new room

We're doing lots of new things upstairs in the Myers household. Greg has painted Landon's new room blue, he's currently painting Kasey's room Green. Next Tuesday we're getting new carpet in the 3 bedrooms upstairs (so Greg is also working to clear the rooms out). Then Oct 23rd we'll get Landon's new furniture and hopefully in Oct we can get decorating done or at least a good part started.

With all of this, we decided to go ahead and put a Queen mattress in Landon's new room to start getting him used to that room. Friday Oct 3rd is his first night to sleep in there. He seems excited about the new room. Now I get to lay down with him to read books. I also moved his toothbrush and hair brush into his new bathroom (he's been taking baths in there for a little while now).

Landon is able to use his fingers a little better. He can definitely hold up 2 fingers and say 2. He can also hold up 3 fingers. We're still working on 4, but he's doing very well.

Landon seems to be getting more particular about things. He wants things prepared like he wants them or he gets upset. Or he wants us to do things in a certain way or he gets upset. For example we used to be able to suggest what he was going to have for breakfast and he usually went along. Now he really has an opinion that if he doesn't want egg, he doesn't want egg. Some foods he wants us to cut up, and some he wants to eat whole like we do (apples, muffins, etc). If we do it the wrong way he is not happy.

Not sure if I've said this before. Landon loves the song Old McDonald. He sings it all the time. Sometimes I think it's a way he uses to deal with anxiety (singing).

I'm doing ok. Getting bigger and slower, but feeling ok. We still have so much to do, and work is crazy. Hopefully we'll get most things done in October, and I can rest more in November. I think that a lot of things are going to change at work soon, which isn't great timing since I'll be on maternity leave before to long.

Dr Appointment

Had an appointment with Jeanean. Kasey's heartrate was about 135 and strong. Friday Sept 19th I had several contractions in the afternoon. After laying down for a while we went to Oktoberfest, but on the way home I had about 5. Needless to say when we got home we got Landon to bed then I went to bed.

Things were much better on Saturday, but it had made me a little nervous. Jeanean wanted to check my cervix just to make sure, and all is well.

I'm doing well overall. Still working out, but starting to feel aches and pains a little more.

Oktoberfest, A&M vs Miami Game

We went to Oktoberfest this weekend on Friday night and on Sunday. We got to eat some good German food, and Greg got to drink some German beer. Landon got to have some fun as well. He got to go on a couple rides including his first roller coaster. Daddy went with him since I couldn't go. He got to go on the carousel a couple times and a few other rides where he go to ride around. Landon also go to see the dogs from the SPCA and watch part of a magic show. We let Landon walk (often holding hands because there were so many people), and this was the first event like this that we didn't bring the stroller. On Sunday Landon also got to get in the water they have and enjoyed splashing around and going up and down the stairs.

Saturday we went to A&M for the A&M vs Miami game. While we all felt the team had improved, it still wasn't pretty to watch. We did have fun tailgating before the game and a little bit afterwards.


Landon has started doing some new things. He now will feed Lady. He can poor the food into her bowl. He's also deciding more what he wants to eat. Especially at breakfast he'll sometimes throw a fit if he can't have a waffle. We still try to change it up some, but we also have to pick our battles. Landon can drain the water in his own bath. For a while he was taking a shower, but the last few nights he's taken a bath. He's also taken a bath in the smaller bathroom upstairs that will become his when he moves room.

Vacation

So our Turks and Caicos trip is canceled, but I really wanted to take a trip with Landon to a beach before Kasey is born. We had and idea that Landon and I would go on a cruise with my parents and uncle. So we were about to book it and the travel agent found out I was pregnant. The cruise line has a rule that you can't go unless you are 24 weeks pregnant or less. I guess a higher power is trying to tell me I need to stay home and not go on vacation.

Landon had his first injury report today from school. He fell while playing outside and got a boo boo. He's ok though, and the teacher said that he didn't cry but told her he fell down. They wiped it off, put a bandade on and sent home a note saying what happened.

Tonight we had our Allen TI moms playdate. Here are a few pictures from tonight.