Sick sick kids

So I took Landon into the doctor this morning and found out he has RSV plus an ear infection in both ears, and he can't keep hardly anything down. We started him on breathing treatments and will start the meds for the infection this afternoon. Poor kid. He's been a real trooper.

Collin had his doctors appointment this afternoon. They were worried he might have pneumonia so I had to take him to get an x-ray, but it came back neg thank goodnes. Yesterday Landon slept pretty much all day and today Collin slept pretty much all day.

I'm 100% sure that I am getting what the boys have. My mom (and Chase when he is home) has been super helpful. But its still been kind of hard for everyone since both boys want to me to hold them. I've set up an air mattress in the boys room and sleep in there since Collin has been climbing in our bed and there isn't enough room. Plus Chase has to get some sleep so he can go to work. So I hang out in the boys room during the night, and when Landon wakes up at 5 then Chase gets up with him and Collin and I get up about 7.

Sorry I'm so boring. I've been thinking lately that I haven't been taking enough pictures lately. So I'm going to do better with that.

Poor kids

Both boys have fevers and running noses today so we decided to stay home from church and just hang out. Collin has a bad cough as well, and Landon just doesn't feel well and so he's pretty fussy. I'm going to be happy when this passes...

I just realized an old post of Collin singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star never actually got posted, so if you go down two post's you can watch it :)

Good day :)

So yesterday went much better. Collin didn't have any accidents, went his whole nap plus all night completely dry. He tells us when he needs to go.
After he went to the bathroom yesterday he started cheering for himself- "Go Collin! Go Collin! Go Collin!" it was really cute.
Then when I was putting his coat on I tighten the sleves and he said, thats great mommy. Not too loose and not to owie.

We thought Landon might be getting sick cause he seemed a little hot and not sleeping real great, but he's been doing really good today.

Its going to be a good day!

Deep breaths...

I know that I am the adult and Collin is the 2-year-old, but I have been having to remind myself of that a lot lately. Potty training Collin again has been awful. I know that he can do it since he was potty trained for like 3 months over the summer. But then we put diapers on him at Thanksgiving for our trip and ever since then he just doesn't want to do it. I don't want to force him, but we just can't buy diapers for him anymore.
So, I tend to yell at Collin a lot lately, which just makes him scared of me and then he won't tell me when he needs to go and then its just worse...

deep breaths.

Also, I have really tried to teach Landon not to play with the computer, which doesn't do any good :) and now our keyboard is broken. It missed letters and spaces and backspaces and caps all the time. It takes 4 times as long to type anything, which is the main reason I haven't blogged lately. Super annoying. And unless our computer completely dies there's no way we're getting a new computer for like another year or more...

deep breaths.

Video of Collin

OK, here is a video of Collin singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Landon 9 months

Over New Years Landon started taking steps by himself. Its been fun but also a little scary since he falls a lot. Collin tends to feel a little ignored when we are working with Landon on walking, so he always jumps in the video or pretends to walk like Landon.

Problems with movies

Sleepless in Seattle-
Why can Jonah get a hold of Dr. Fieldstone whenever he calls her? Is she not busy?

Monsters Inc.-
Why can Boo draw these "great" pictures (for a kid) but can't talk at all?

I'm pretty sure that is not normal. These are just things I noticed today.

Watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-0QXnK-tp4

Its like Happy Feet in real life.

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Christmas at our house

We had a wonderful Christmas. On Friday night we went over to my brother's house and acted out the Nativity. Collin was an angel, and did a great job.
Saturday morning started about 6:00, which was a little surprising. I went and got my mom and she came down and did Christmas morning with us. Landon got one present and Collin got like 6. It was a good morning.

Chase's mom made Collin a busy book, and he loves it. These are a few of his favorite pages.

This is Landon's one big present he got from Santa.

Collin with his new train track and some train books he got from my mom. He loves all of them

We went to Riverwoods on Christmas Eve and took Collin to see Santa. There was no body there and the Santa was awesome. It was the best Santa I have ever seen.

Here are some funny things Collin has said this week-

On Sunday morning I was puttin his white shirt on he said "I'm an angel!" so I asked him what an angel said and he replied "oh God"

Sunday night Tyler let Collin play with his Buzz Light year and Collin looked at me and said "He's beautiful and big!" Chase said we need to teach him more words like awesome.

Collin put his train track together and said "I can do anything!"

Snow pictures

So we got a TON of snow today. I wasn't real excited about it since the weather men keep saying that by Christmas it will all be melted...
Anyway, Kim, Bryan, and Jacob came over today so we went outside and took some pictures. Landon and Jacob tend to play with each other by attacking each other. It was pretty funny. They have matching coats.

This is the only picture of Collin smiling, and I only got it by asking him to show me his teeth.

Kim is such a good aunt. She and Collin made a snow train and a snowman. After Kim finished Collin came up and said Its wonderful!

I put Landon out there by himself. He was ok until he put his hand in the snow and then got a little upset.

Anyway, we're super excited for Christmas. I finally was able to teach Collin to be excited about Santa by telling him that Santa might bring him a train. So now when I asked about Santa then he gets super excited by yelling Christmas train!! We are trying to talk a lot about Christ and his birth and what Christmas really means. Last year with Collin being so sick this is going to be the first Christmas where he is excited and is aware of what is going on.

I'm number 4 I guess

Conversation Collin and I had today-
"I love you Collin!"
"I love you mommy!"
"Your the best Collin!"
"Your the best mommy!"
"Your number 1 Collin!"
"Your number 4 mommy. Thomas the Train is number 1."


We went to the doctor for Landon's check up (22.31 lbs, 29 inches, and his head is in the 91%. The chart shows his head size got huge between his 6 month check up and this one. Sometimes we call him big head...) and the nurse asked Collin "Who is coming to your house next week and is bringing you lots of presents?" Collin thought about it for a second and said, "Ummm, Grandma."

Landon

Since I named the last post Collin I thought I'd give a shout out to Landon. He turns 9 months in 5 days. This morning he decided that he could stand by himself and climb the stairs. He had been playing at the bottom of the stairs for a few days and so this morning when he was standing there I wasn't too worried. I looked away for a minute and when I turned back around he was gone. I ran over there and he was up 2 of the stairs, trying for the 3rd. Great...
Also, he was watching Thomas with Collin this morning and apparently didn't even realize that he had let go of the couch. It was really funny to watch him- he would almost lose his balance and so he would put his hand out and then gain his balance back before he would touch the couch. He stood there for probably 30 seconds, then fell over, got back up and did it again.
We're trying to find things for him to eat- he's not a huge fan of his bottle anymore so we just try to keep enough food in the house for him. :) He's pretty tall and is already getting to be too big for 12 month clothes. He slept though the night last night- almost. He woke up twice but went back to sleep on his own.

I lost our tv remote. I am so annoyed. I'm pretty sure someone (Collin) put it somewhere but has now forgotten where he put it...

Collin

So lately we have been getting the biggest kick out of stuff that Collin says.
A few days ago he climbed up on a stool and said, "I can see everything from here!".
He threw a lid into the cabinet this morning and said, "Whoa, that was a big, loud sound!"
He came up to Landon and was playing with him for a second and then said, "You're just a fat baby. You're just a fat baby"
I wish so much I could get these things on camera cause so often its not really what he says, but how he says it. He's so funny.

We got these pictures taken of the boys last month. It was a TON of work to get some pictures of Collin not freaking out at Landon for touching the guitar, or for them both to be looking at the camera, or to get Landon to keep the sunglasses on. But I'm happy with how they turned out and probably won't try that again anytime soon.

This one with the sunglasses is by far my favorite.

Snowflake fire station

On our trip for Thanksgiving we stopped in Snowflake before heading to Phoenix. While we were there we called Chase's sister to find out if Collin could go to the fire station while we were there. Our brother-in-law works with them so we had an in :). I was wondering how Collin was going to handle it- he loves fire engines but new things kind of scare him. He seemed to really like it although he didn't love getting into the fire engine by himself. But he really liked going down the pole with Chase and getting a fire hat. We were really glad we went, it was lots of fun.

Pies

This year for Thanksgiving we went out to Phoenix to be with Chase's family. It was super fun and WAY colder then I thought. My uncle Ray made fun of me because I showed up at his house in a short sleeve shirt and he was wearing his winter coat. I had no idea it was going to be that cold! I didn't bring jackets for anyone so we had to buy some while we were there.

We also went to see my aunt and uncle because we had some car trouble and since they lived close by we took it to their mechanic. It worked out well and we got home without any more problems. I don't think we've ever gone to see Chase's family without having car troubles. :) Chase and I just laugh though.

Here are some pictures of my pies. I made a pumpkin, apple, and some small pecan bits. They all turned out really good, even though I made them before I left so they had to survive the whole trip there. I forgot my camera so I didn't get any pictures of the kids doing much. Our brother in law and Chase's dad made a ramp for hot wheel cars and did a bunch of races. Collin was in heaven. Landon loved being able to just crawl around and find things to eat and chew on.

Things have been going good around here. We've been keeping busy. We put up the tree on Monday and tried to put a few decorations up as well, but there isn't a lot of room. I got some more pictures of the boys taken so I'll try to put those up soon.