200th post, 2nd birthday

Here are a few things we are working on with Collin:
Instead of screeching NO, we have taught him to say No, thank you. So he screeches NO THANK YOU.
He has gone to the potty twice. We have tried probably 5 or 6 times, usually we are just too late. We need to get a little seat so he doesn't fall in...
I have learned from the No to No, thank you that I have some power over what he says. We are starting to work on the word "mine" and not saying it so much. I think this one is going to be much harder.
Yesterday was Collins 2nd birthday. It was actually a pretty good day considering the fact that he didn't get a nap. We change from 1:00 to 9:00 next week (the singles ward that meets in the building has decided they don't have enough time to mingle after they're meetings get over so they are taking the 1:00 time slot back.) so when he doesn't fall asleep by 12:30 it won't matter so much.
We made a train cake and had a train balloon. His favorite toy is a little toy train that goes choo-choo and rolls by itself. He also got this awesome rocking elephant. Its really funny to watch him rock on it and yell Yee Haw!

He didn't get this bike for his birthday, its Aidens old bike and he just gets to use it until he figures out how to pedel. Then he can use his bike.

But he sure does love riding around like the big kids. He will do this for hours if I let him.

By the way, I am taking orders for pinata's :) Just kidding. I made this elephant pinata for his birthday, and even though it is 90% duck tape and missing a leg, the kids still enjoyed it. I don't think I'll ever make another one though...

Tall kids

So we had the boy's check ups today. Collin gained weight, so he's doing better. Landon is a big fatty, but we weren't worried about that. The thing that surprised me the most was their percents in length. Collin is in the 92% and Landon is in the 78%, which is where Collin was at Landon's age. I guess they got my dad's genes...

Both got shots, but Collin did good so he got a sucker. Sadly Landon couldn't have a treat and has been struggling this afternoon. I just feel bad for him, I can tell he's trying to sleep but can't. He just sits there (when he isn't crying) and scowls. Poor kid.

Crafty :)

Our apartment is a mess. Not only was it too small to fit all our stuff that we already had, now that we are moving with my mom to her new house down the street in 3 weeks I have started getting stuff to decorate the boys room. On top of that I have decided to become crafty and have pretty much bought Joann's out of felt. Chase and I are going to make a quiet book for Collin and Landon some day, and I'm making some animal things to put up in the boys room. Poor Chase, he is drowning in his school work and at the MTC, and then he has to come home to my "craft room" which is pretty much our whole apartment. I think he's going to love the outcome though.

Today for Collins birthday we took Collin and his two cousins to Kangaroo Zoo, a big warehouse full of blowup castles and slides and such. Collin was TOTALLY freaked out. We would put him on one of them to jump or run around and he would just back up as fast as possible and run back to us. I finally had to go pay and take him on all the slides. The last one he actually went on by himself, so we made progress. We were really surprised that he was so scared, especially with Trina and Aiden there. Even when I went with him he would say NONONONO the whole way up the ladder (which are not made for a mom to carry a 2 year old up them so we fell a lot. I'm pretty sure we entertained Stu and Chase more then the kids...) but then when we went down the slide he thought it was fun.
I can't believe he will be two next week. That is so crazy.

Videos of Landon

Landon is smiling and "laughing"- although you don't really hear a good laugh in either of these videos. He is growing so fast, its so much fun.

Big bed

Got Collin a toddler bed today. We actually got two because I found one after we bought the first that came with a mattress. So now we have a bed for Landon. Just no mattress.

Anyway. First night in the toddler bed is going a little slow. He's been in his room for an hour and thinks he has to get in bed by climbing over the little side rail instead of the open part. But he is laying on the bed, playing with his teddy. So this is a good sign. We decided to go ahead and get him a bigger bed for 2 reasons- he does not fit in his play pen anymore. 2- we will be moving with my mom next month and felt like we needed to have him in a bigger bed when we move.

All in all, I think things are going well :)

Family pictures

Love it

Thank you to Steph again for taking some pictures of us even though Collin was being totally out of control (how do kids know when we really want them to be good?)

Too many

This last weekend Chase and I found a great deal on a 16 gb flash drive. I told him we should buy it and use it to back up all our pictures. Little did I know we'd fill that up with only about 40% of all the pictures we have. So, we got a much bigger drive (500 gb) and I have been working on backing up all our pictures. Its been so much fun going through old pictures from when Chase and I were dating and engaged, birthdays, pictures from when I was little. I also realized that just like any other parent I have way more pictures of Collin then I do of Landon to this point. And that I loved Collin's outfits when he was 9-12 months old :) He had some really cute clothes...
Anyway, I feel much much better now knowing that all our pictures are off my computer and on a drive that we keep by our door for easy access. I've learned that I stink at labeling my pictures- I need to save the pictures under "Collin 6 months old" instead of "Collin". Not super helpful, especially when he looks the same at 6 months and 8 months.

Which boy is which

Both are 6 weeks old in the picture.