Halloween 2009

We did a couple things for Halloween. I had gotten the kids multiple costumes at the resell store so that they could use them for dress up and wear different things to different activities.

On 10/24 we had a neighborhood Halloween party. The kids had fun with games and getting little prizes. We had kind of expected bounce houses and such, but was still fun.

10/30 we had our last playdate (I organized a weekly playdate at a park from June through Oct). This was at our gym. The kids got to run around in their costumers, play games, decorate a cookie and participate in a cake walk.

For Halloween we had Grammy and Grandma over for dinner and fun. The kids got dressed up and we went trick or treating with some of the neighbors. Devon and Dillon from next door, Liam and Peyton & Miya and Joe from down the street. The kids seemed to have fun. We had strollers for the little ones, and the big kids went trick or treating.

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Kasey 11 months

Last 1/2 of Oct started putting balls and toys into things (like her dinosaur toy or basketball toy)

She likes to say hi. Often she says Hi Da. Everytime she hears Greg's voice she says Da. We ask her who I am and she says Da. She talks quite a bit though.

She's better sleeping better lately (knock on wood). She'll go to sleep between 8-9. Sometimes get up as we go to bed, but then sleep until morning (anywhere from 5-7am).

She loves to dance. Music from kids music to Country to heavy metal she starts dancing. She'll even dance sometimes when there isn't music. It's pretty cute.

She's still walking around the house with walkers. She hasn't quite figured out how to turn them so we have to help out. 11/3 she walked behind me down the hall holding on to my pants. Still not taking her own steps though. It will be soon enough.

Kasey climbed up into dish washer...

Here are some pictures from October.

Kasey in her Aggie Onesie made by cousin Debby - 10/2/09

Mommy got to go to Gymboree with Kasey as a nice treat because Landon got sick - 10/9/09

Kasey Napping at Landon's tball game - 10/18/09

Playing at the park by our house - 10/19/09

Before Mommy and Daddy went on date to Roys and a movie -10/24/09

Kasey climbed up there by herself - she was very proud - 10/25/09

Kasey in her Halloween shirt - 10/25/09

Kasey at a windy tball Practice on her 11 month birthday - 11/28/09

Myers Flu

Landon's fever broke over the weekend, but we kept him out of activities until Wednesday. Greg and I got sick during that week (now we think we had flu as well). Then on Friday Oct 16th Kasey started getting fever so we called the Dr to make appointment. Greg took her in that afternoon and guess who had the flu. She has to take medicine because of her age. So far she's doing pretty well. She hasn't needed medicine for her fever since 4:20am this morning.

Landon woke up on 10/8 with a high fever. We took him to the dr on Friday and he had the flu. They didn't test for sure, but were 99% sure it was Swine flu. Because it's more serious for Kasey to get it, Kasey and I moved into my parent's house for the weekend to be safe. Of course Landon didn't understand, but it was the right thing to do.

Since we've all been to the Dr in the past couple weeks. Landon now weighs over 35 lb, and Kasey weighs 21lb 12oz.

Kasey is wearing 18 month clothes. The pants are to long, but for most things fit outside of that.

Kasey has started in the last week or so dancing with music. She rocks back and forth to music on her toys, when we sing or hear other music. It's really cute.

Kasey was singing in the car with Grammy to kid CDs - 10/7/09

Kasey had last level 2 gymboree class - 10/6/09

Moves to Friday class in Level 3 10/9 at 12:15

Kasey was sleeping through the night for about 3 nights beg of Oct, and now she's started getting up again in the middle of the night

JerryWorld, A&M vs Arkansas game

We got to go to JerryWorld (New Cowboy stadium) to see A&M play Arkansas. We went early to tailgate for the afternoon. Greg, Landon and I went and joined Dave, Tracy, Sarah, Matt and some of their friends from Arkansas for some good food and company.

Landon got to see the band and a firetruck. Then when we went into the stadium I have to say I was in awe. It's pretty amazing to walk into. The game wasn't great, and we're not the biggest fans of Jerry, but the stadium is really nice.

Here are some pictures from the day. Funny how several of the pictures in the stadium are of the video board :)

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Landon's Jr Tball

We have Landon on a Jr Tball team. He's on the Cubs. Greg is one of the assistant coaches and I'm one of the team moms. We're enjoying it even though it's a little crazy trying to get 3 year olds to focus on tball. 3 of Landon's friends are on the team (Asher and Justin from school, and Liam from down the street).

Landon wanted to be number 10 like Landon Donovan (who he was named after), but that was taken. His second choice was number 1.

Grammy, Gramps and Grandma all game to Landon's first game. This was a good thing because Greg was coaching, I was trying to keep chaos to a minimum so they kept Kasey.

Here are pictures from the first game: click here

We did not get great shots of him batting, but I did get his first run on video :)

Cindy's BDay, Aggie Games, Oktoberfest

We got to celebrate Aunt Cindy's Birthday. We brought in BBQ to eat and got to eat Greg's favorite dessert (at least everyone but me because it can't be made without milk).

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Landon has gone to 3 games so far. The first two game Landon and I went to kids yell practice and watched the team come in, but then we walked quite a bit to get back to where the guys were. I decided that for the 3rd game we'd keep it a little low key. We decided to hang out at the Chicken. We got some dominos for Landon to play with, and we had some good burgers while enjoying the atmosphere and having a couple drinks. Landon actually played dominoes because he could count the dots and see similarities. It was fun. Here are some pictures from the first 3 games. click here

Here are a video I took of the football team walking in:

Oktoberfest is always a fun event. Good German food and beer, and now we've discovered that they have kids rides as well :) Thursday (9/17) night we went and had dinner with Doug at Oktoberfest. This year we invited some of Landon's friends and their parents to come with us on Sunday to do more kids stuff. We saw some of the clown show (pictures with his rabbit), and let the kids ride rides and get some food. We had a good time, but it was warmer than I expected.

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Mommy's Week Off - Aug 24-28th 2009

So I found these pictures in Kodak Gallery that had never been uploaded. I took a week off to hang out with the kids and get to go to their daytime activities. A couple fun things were going with Landon's friend Liam (and his mom and sister) to the Children's museum at Fair park, I got to go to Landon's swim lessons and see how he was doing, and I got to go to Gymboree with Kasey. I still remembered most of the songs at Gymboree from when Landon went. It was fun to get to do those activities that Greg gets to do on a weekly basis.

The bad part was that I left for Japan right after my week off. Luckily it all worked out.

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