Topsail Island 7/24-26/09

We were invited to Topsail Island for the weekend by the parents of 2 of the Children I keep during the week, Ella and Carly. They are staying there for the week and asked if we would like to come spend some time with them. We got down there late Friday night, one because we left late and then two we didn't know where we were going!

Landon had a wonderful time playing with Ella as he normally does but there was also another young boy there named Jason. He was about 7 or 8. Landon and Ella really enjoyed playing with him as well.

We had good food, good times and good company!

Thanks Erin and Tony Bastidas for inviting us to come stay with you guys at the beach!

Independance?

In the mornings I come downstairs for daycare around 7 AM and Landon stays upstairs with Brian and Brian brings him down around 7:25 when he gets ready to leave for work so they can spend some time together before Brian goes to work. Well yesterday morning Landon came downstairs dressed like this:

Yes, this is his Bob The Builder Costume that he wore last Halloween. He got it out of his closet and put it on by himself. Luckily Brian remembered to bring down his actual outfit for the day so I could get him dressed because I think that would have been a little hot to play outside in 90 degree weather!

How Long Can You Last?

I found this challenging "game" on WRAL's Brian Strader's Blog and thought it was interesting and I wanted to see if you can last. I tried it a few times and have lasted 13 seconds. Brian Strader states he has lasted 13.5 seconds, the goal is 18 seconds, how long can you last?





The object of the game is to click and hold on to the red square and move it around to keep from hitting the blue squares as well as the walls. If you dare to try click HERE. And don't forget to let me know how you do!

On Saturday Thomas the Train came to Cary's South Hill's Mall and offered free rides for for everyone. Landon, as you all know, loves Thomas the Train so Brian and I took him there to ride with Thomas. Landon was a big boy and rode by himself! The train was a man made train from a tractor type vehicle. The man that invented this train did a great job transforming this vehicle into a true Thomas looking train. He attached a trailer, like a trailer you haul wood or something with behind your vehicle, and attached 3 wooden garden benches to the trailer for the seats on the train. I will download a video of the train once I can get if off my camera so you can see how realistic this train really is.

Landon's 3rd Birthday Party

We celebrated Landon's 3rd Birthday on Saturday June 20th this year. We decided to have it out at Pullen Park again this year since the kids seem to have so much fun there. They got to ride a train, some kiddie boats, and a carousel. They also have paddle boats but we didn't do that this year. It seems we chose the hottest day so far this year to have the party and boy did it feel that way. The high was supposed to be around 99 and that doesn't include the humidity that was there! The party was fun and unfortunately my "official" picture taker couldn't be there so you will have to bare with the photos I tried to take while keeping the kids occupied. I had some wonderful help from my mother in law getting Landon's cake made. If it wasn't for her there wouldn't have been a wonderful Thomas the Train Cake for Landon's Party. I also have to thank my mom for helping get things together, without those 2 wonderful ladies the party would have had chaos! Landon had such a wonderful time, he was talking about it all day on Sunday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LANDON!

The day Landon was born 6-16-06

Landon's 1st Birthday 6-16-07

Landon's 2nd B-day 6-21-08

Landon 3rd Birthday 6-16-09

For Landon's birthday at daycare we made birthday hats to wear and ate colored cupcakes that Landon helped Mommy make last night by taking food coloring to the cake batter to make the colors he wanted which were purple, orange, blue, pink, green and we made a few of the normal white cake color. We invited over Mrs. Suzette's Daycare to join us in our fun, she only had 2 little girls today, Amanda and Natalie.


It is hard to believe another year has gone by since our little guy was born. He came into this world on Friday June 16th 2006 at 7PM weighing in at 7 lbs 10 oz and measured 19 1/2 in long.











HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY BIG BOY! We hope you have a wonderful day!







We Love You!

Check Out This Girl

Make sure your sound is on for this one! My mom sent me to our local news channels website to check out Brian Strader's blogs that he has on there. It can vary from a strange website to a video to a challenge for the readers to win WRAL stuff. Well this particular blog she wanted me to see was called baby talk.

See for yourself!