It's Official

It is Official. Landon is completely potty trained. No more pull-ups at night. We have gone two weeks with no accidents at night. Holy Moly, I can't believe it!!! He just thinks it is so awesome as well. He has gotten up once in the middle of the night to go potty. Otherwise we just make sure that he goes potty right before bed and he is good to go. No more runs to Target to get overnight pull-ups. I even have a few left over. I am sure that he might take a step backwards or have an accident here or there, but as of now, I am thrilled. I truly can't believe how grown up he is. The things he says, does, and remembers just blows my mind occasionally. It is crazy. He is very good with music lately. He remembers a song by a note or two played at the beginning. He is crazy about the Zac Brown Band's "Chicken Fried" and Joey and Rorie's "Cheater Cheater". SO, that song might not be the best for him to LOVE but it he goes CRAZY! Now of course all I hear is that I better have another one, but I guess that just doesn't excite me at this time. I am content where we are right now. Maybe after winter this year or something, but not right now.

Here is a picture from Halloween. He definitely enjoyed himself this year too.

The Journey we will take

What can I say? It has been a few weeks from Hell, I guess. First off we got the bad news about my brother and sister-in-law. What a shock that was to my system. I think I am still a little dumbfounded by it, but what can I say. I don't live with them, and don't know what goes on behind closed doors, but I do feel pretty close to both of them. Which makes me believe that Chad is running from his own lies since he is sick of dealing with them. I love them both dearly and I can't even imagine Melissa out of my life. So, I am doing everything I can to let her know that I am not going anywhere. We can still be close regardless of the outcome of her marriage. I do hope my brother looks outside of his box and is willing to make efforts to change himself too. As that is where I see the change is needed the most. Keep your fingers crossed.

We also got some bad news about Luke's Dad. He is very sick and not sure what the future holds. He has cancer. I think he will be a trooper and make the best of what it is, but it is still a lot to take in. I am not sure how much the big guy thinks we can handle, but apparently we can handle a lot! So, say a little prayer and hopefully that will take us well into next year or years. :)

On a lighter note, we have our 6th anniversary on Sunday. We are heading to the Chanhassen Dinner theater on Saturday night to see the Producers. This is something that Luke has wanted to do for a few years and we just never did it. So, I finally broke down and got tickets. Thanks to my dear friend Trudy who got us a discount. I think this is something we are going to try and do more often as Luke does enjoy it. Hopefully it will be a good time.

Week/Weekend

Well, today marks day 5 of Landon's new daycare! I completely am in shock at how easy this move was for us. I hardly slept on Sunday night as I was a little worried about our decision to move him out of the center. But, nonetheless, Landon has done exceptionally well. :) Monday morning dropping him off was a complete breeze. He took his shoes off on the rug and walked down stairs all on his own, no looking back. Everyday since then, he has asked if he gets to go to his new school. Absolutely! So, I have been asking him now if he wants to go back to his old school, as we drive past it every morning, and his response was Nope! So, good choice by us and we are all that much happier.

Now, I can have a good weekend with no second guessing about the move. Luke and I are using up a gift certificate from my parents. We are staying at a bed and breakfast in Turtle Lake tomorrow night. I am not sure that I was looking forward to it, but I really think it is going to be a good time. We are going golfing before we check in, then we are going to head to the casino and hope for the big bucks, and then a nice dinner and then who knows. The B&B has things to do such as hiking trails, canoes, etc.. So, the weather is supposed to be awesome, so I think it will be fun for us.

Landon Turned 3

It is so hard for me to believe that Landon has turned three already. Where did the time go? He has become such a little man right before our eyes. I can't believe how much he has changed. He know pretty much dresses and undress himself, goes potty by himself, helps himself to the refrigerator, helps himself to the pudding pop box out of the freezer, goes outside by himself to play ball or ride bike, goes downstairs on his own, turns on and off the lights, gets in and out of the car, unbuckles himself from the car seat, talks on the phone, plays Wii, and it goes on and on.

Now the questions begin on when number two is coming along... Unfortunately there are no plans for number two anytime soon. I am still undecided on if I want number two. I always said I would have two, but I just don't know. I think I will make up my mind now that we are moving Landon, as of Monday, to a new daycare. We have made the decision to pull him out of the center he is at and have moved him to an in home place. Daisy Hill has just really fallen apart and all of Landon's "buddies" (as he calls them) have left. We are going to go to giggles-n-grins daycare where he will be able to play with Anthony Grinnell as he is one of the "buddies" he misses. It seemed to be the best decision for us as her curriculum seems better than Daisy Hill's and the payment is way less. Since the wonderful time of winter is moving in on us with Luke getting laid off, it just seemed smart to make the move now. I must say today being his last day at Daisy Hill was very emotional on me this morning. I was crying like a baby. His two teachers right now, Dana and Jodi, are absolutely the Greatest thing that has happened to Landon. They are the ones that have turned him into the little man. All the potty training credit goes to them. He would not be completely potty trained right now, if it was up to us, as we don't work as hard with him as they did. I will miss them dearly, but since he will be moving to the pre-k room with all the other 3 & 4 year olds, Dana and Jodi with still be with the 2 year olds, and that was the breaking factor in moving Landon out. I know that Anthony is more than excited to have Landon come join him, so we will see how Monday morning goes.

Here are some pictures from Landon's b-day party and a picture of his b-day cake. All he wanted was a skid steer on his cake. This was the best we could do.

The hate was made at daycare. Too darn cute!

The Skid Steer Cake!

Trying to blow out the candles, he wasn't really sure what he was supposed to do, but he figured it out.

Summer stuff

I can't believe that we are nearing the middle of August already. We are preparing for Landon's 3rd Birthday! Where in the world does the time go?

We sure have been busy, but not sure what we have been doing. Landon continue to entertain us. He sure does come up with some of the strangest things to say like "Monkeys have tails, and I am not a monkey because I have a butt and a wiener." I am going to have to give Jodi and Adam or my Brother credit for that one. I have no idea where that came from. He told me that on the way home from daycare last week. I thought I was going to dye.

We adventured to Milwaukee for another Brewer game last weekend and fun was had by all. I was a little nervous with Landon being in underwear the entire trip, but I think it is official, that he is completely potty trained. No accidents. He told us in the car when he had to go potty. It was great! However, he does have issues with toilets. If they are self flushing, forget it! He wants nothing to do with it. So, we had some issues a couple of times. He much rather just pull his pants down where ever he is at, and go potty. Like right by the garbage cans/sidewalk of the rest areas! It was so embarrassing, but I guess we will have that.

Here are some pictures from the game and from the water park that we stayed at.

Joe and Landon enjoying the view from our seats.

Landon loving the thumbs up sign, Dad just isn't too sure.

The lazy river, where ever Joe went, Landon did too!

Landon's Cheesy picture pose!

Fun in a pail

I can't get over how much I have been laughing at Landon lately. He just cracks me up. So Wednesday night we were outside on our patio chatting and Landon came running from the front of the house and told me he wanted to take his shorts off since he had gotten them wet (I think because he peed outside and didn't aim very well, but I am not positive). So, I figured since we were in the backyard he could just run around in his undies. Then he discovered the sprinkler over by our garden and he was begging for me to turn it on. So, what the heck, I did! It was so comical watching him get hit by a drop of water (literally a drop) and scream and come running back by us. So, this eventually was getting old, and he was pretty wet by this time, so he decided to climb up on the dirt pile we have by the patio. SO, wet feet, pile of dirt, you know what his feet looked like. It was time to eat and I had to clean off his feet, so Luke had two five gallon pails of water sitting on the patio, PERFECT! I will dip Landon's feet in the bucket and clean them off. WRONG! He had to sit in the bucket and pretend he was taking a bath. I have to say it was so funny, the pictures just don't justify how much fun he was having in a pail! Here are some pictures that sort of tell the story. I guess it was just cheap entertainment for us!

Landon's new little smile he does!

Gotta love it!

A Little Soggy

What a soggy weekend! My Mom had won tickets from the radio to go to Country Jam in Eau Claire on Saturday to sit on stage with Joe Nichols. We were so excited. Luke also won 2-three day passes to Country Jam from his employer. So Luke and I went on Thursday night to see Taylor Swift and Rascal Flatts. Wasn't too bad, other than I had one or two beers too many. We skipped going on Friday so we could take Landon to the County Fair, which he loved the Llamas and the bunnies. So, Saturday my Mom, Luke, Todd, and I all pack up and head to Eau Claire to get good parking and not feel rushed. It was an extremely warm day and we were enjoying ourselves. 5:00 rolls around and Mom and I head up to the stage. We couldn't believe how close we really were. We were having a good time until about the 4th song and they announced that we had to get off the stage because there was lightning. So, we get off the stage and people are running. Literally running as the rain drops got bigger. We stop at the k102 booth to get a poncho (not sure why since I was already practically soaked). We went to our lawn chairs and then tried to find the boys who were in the beer tent with the thousands of other people. It was crazy. We wedged our way into the beer tent, but the wind was horrible, and we were still getting soaked so we ended up by the mixed drink booth under a little lean to deal. It wasn't horrible since we were out of the wind. Luke was texting me and said he was bar tending in the tent as Mom and I are standing in ankle deep water and it was only getting deeper. I was pissed since Luke was bone dry and I was literally drenched. About an hour and half later, two inches of rain later, the concerts resumed. Clay Walker was great and then it was Carrie Underwood. She was okay, but we were so full of mud that we left early since cars were having to be towed out of the parking lot. It was nasty. All in all it was a good time and we really do just laugh about it now. Here are a couple of photos:

Don't we look cute! Todd, Me, Luke & Mom

Mom & I on stage before the rain hit

This weekend brings me to my 10 year class reunion. Hopefully I will look prettier than I do in the pictures above and we will have good weather. No more outdoor country concerts for me this year. Hopefully next year we will be able to go again. It is just hard to have to leave Landon all the time. So we will see.