Landon's room - 4/19/09

We started doing some more decorating in Landon's room. I've had these decals since he moved into the room last October. oops. Anyway, Landon helped me to arrange them so it was fun, and I think it turned out pretty good. His comforter has the sports balls on them. I've also bought some unique prints that we'll put in his room. I'm supposed to get the last one back from framing on the 23rd so hopefully we'll get those up later this month.

Kasey sitting up and couple other updates

I really think Kasey is sitting up and Grammy agrees with me. Greg doesn't agree. She will sit up for a little bit on her own, she will try to put her hands downs some (her body is so much longer than her arms that this doesn't help much). Anyway here are some pictures. We'll say she officially started sitting up this week (week of April 11th :)

We got to meet Haley Beth (Beth and Andrew Hamilton's 2 week old baby girl). Haley was a very good baby, and the boys enjoyed playing together. Kasey got a little over tired and was fussy, but we had a good visit.

Kasey and Haley Hamilton - 4/18/09

Meeting Haley Hamilton - 4/18/09

Kasey laughing at Landon - 4/18/09

Landon's first full length movie - 4/18/09

For Landon's school social this month we went to see Cars in the movie theater and then went to lunch at Fudruckers. I think the boys did pretty good for a bunch of 2 and 3 year olds. Landon got up twice to go to the bathroom, and pretty much stayed put other than that. Of course after the movie all of the boys were running around chasing each other because they had been somewhat still for 2 hours. Anyway, here are some pictures: click here

Easter 2009

We had a nice Easter this year. Landon got to hunt for eggs several times. He got to the point that he wanted to put eggs all over the house himself so he could pick them up. He's still got bags and baskets of eggs that he plays with everyday. I 'd rather him play with the eggs than eat all the candy.

Grammy gave the kids some nice outfits that they wore on Easter. You'll see Kasey's green dress, and Landon's blue pants with green sweater vest.

Here are some picture from the Easter Festivities: click here

Portraits from March 7, 2009

So it's pretty bad it's taken me so long to get these up, but here they are. We had such good pictures with my parents that we decided to get some pictures with Greg's family. My friend Audrey Reed took the pictures and did a great job. Here are some of my favorites.

Dana's Birthday Celebrations - 2009

4/3/09

We started the weekend by going to dinner at Zorbas (our favorite Greek restaurant). We've been going there since Landon was very little. They have Saganaki (Greek cheese) that they light on fire and say Opa. Somewhere along the line Landon started getting scared of the fire. We told him when they do it to raise his hands and say Opa as well. He did this several times and didn't seem to be scared. It was cute.

4/4/09

Saturday morning the boys got donuts for us for breakfast. I was on the bed feeding Kasey and Landon was making me birthday presents. He brought me a plate of crayons and said happy Birthday. He also brought me a basket of his pretend cookies.

That afternoon Landon and I went to see a Circus in Allen with his friend down the street and his mom. We got to feed Llamas and goats. I rode a camel with Landon and Liam, and then Liam wanted to ride the Elephant as well so I went with him while Landon stayed with Jessica. The kids had a good time seeing the animals and the acts. We also got to go to out houses to potty 3 times which was an experience all in itself.

Here are some pictures from the Circus: click here

That night we went to Greg's parent's house for a birthday celebration. We had a good meal as usual, and Grandma made me a German chocolate cake without milk in it. I think it required some creativity, but I really appreciated it and it was great. We had fun hanging out with everyone and eating good food.

4/5/09

Sunday morning after breakfast the kids gave me my presents which Landon is great at helping open. For Lunch we had some good leftovers from the night before. Then Grammy came to get the kids for the afternoon. Greg went to Dallas Cup to watch soccer games, and I went to Audrey's house to work on an art project (I'll share more on this in the coming months). That evening I went to my moms and we had dinner and a celebration with the kids. Mom had some fun balloons, a blow up birthday cake, Fajitas from Uncle Julios, and 2 desserts also specially made without dairy. We had a good time and enjoyed hanging out.

4/11/09

I decided that i wanted to have an adult only celebration as well. Tracy and I arranged to have a joint birthday celebration for dinner at Blue Fish. We had some really good Sushi and enjoyed the company. Greg's mom and sister were nice enough to come to the house and babysit Landon, Kasey and Liam from down the street. Funny story from the kids. We feel like we spend a lot of time asking Landon to clean up or to turn things off so they don't waste the battery. While Liam was here and both boys were playing with many toys, Landon would get upset if Liam would leave the train on too long or the remote control car on. I just think it's funny that we have to tell the 2 year old these things all the time, and then he turns around and already sounds like us with others.

Here are pictures from Birthday Celebrations above: click here

Kasey rolled over once

I'm prettybehind on the blog,  I have lots of updates from my birthday celebrations and pictures.  I'll get them up soon :)

Kasey rolled over from her stomach to back for the first time today (in a long time).  She only did it once though.   She's not really sitting up yet, but she's getting really close.  She will put her hands down some, but then she'll end up leaning over quite a bit.    She's doing better eating.  Monday she ate 10 oz while I was at work and today she ate 6oz.    She's started going to bed fairly well.   I'll try to feed her in the bedroom where it's darker and then put her to bed awake.  She'll fuss some, but go to sleep.  Last few nights she's gone to bed about 9:30-9:45.    Over the weekend she got up 2 and 3 times a night, but the last 2-3 nights she's just gotten up once and slept about 7 or 8 hours.  

I don't remember if I've put this in the blog so I will here.  Kasey is now in 6/9 month clothes.  This is great when it's warm because I have lots of cute spring and summer clothes.   Unfortunately it's been cooler in Dallas and she has very few long pant outfits that fit.  No worries, I'm sure it will be warm soon.   She's in 2/3 diapers and has been for a little while.

Landon is enjoying going outside to play.  The Easter Bunny brought him a Thomas the Train ball that he's having lots of fun playing with.    We've gone in the back yard the last few nights and he's enjoyed that.   He's also still playing with his various baskets and eggs from Easter.  Luckily he usually cleans up the mess he makes with them.