87, 88, and 89 weeks, plus New House pictures =).

So I have been a bad blogger and missed about 3 weeks! Yikes-I kept meaning to do a post but with packing, moving, and unpacking we have been insanely busy! Plus, I felt like I was writing the same things every week, so I figured you guys were tired for reading the same old thing =).

 So we moved last Saturday, the 19th. We had about 4 of Logan's friends come from work to help us.   We had one Uhaul and one guy brought his truck with a flat bed trailer.  It took the majority of the day to get most of the things moved, 2 Uhaul loads and one flat trailer load, but the guys got everything moved in without much damage to anything....well besides my desk that didn't make it!

That night, Landon actually broke our TV.  The guys left it at a perfect place for Landon to tip the  plasma tv over.  The next day we were getting ready to put it on the wall and as Logan lifted it, I noticed a giant crack going up the screen.  We decided to try turning it on before we wasted all our efforts putting it on the wall for it to not work-good thing, because the crack lit up white and then fried the rest of the tv.  Lesson learned for the boys, don't leave something where Landon can get to it! Thankfully, we needed a new tv and had planned on getting on Black Friday.  However, we just got it a few weeks early =).

We have had a few snafus with the house. We had an issue with the AC in the attic not draining correctly and it activated some emergency shut off, so we were without heat/AC for about 5 days.  We busted out Landon's small space heater since it was dropping into the 40s at night, so his room stayed warm and we stayed bundled the rest of the time.   Someone came out to replace the bad part on Tuesday and was here the majority of the day! I am just glad it is fixed.

Landon is adjusting pretty well. He loves all the room in the house to run around.  He is now extra crazy, so we are trying to teach him boundaries and to be more gentle (ha ha yeah right) with his toys since you can pretty much look at our walls and they scuff!  He has had a harder time going to Mothers Day Out since his separation anxiety is pretty high.  Today's drop off was awful, so I hope that next week is easier once we get back to our more usual routine.    He is learning so many new things every day.  He pretty much will mimic whatever you say.  The other day he said a whole sentence after Logan-Mommy is at the house. Logan said it was clear as day.  He is OBSESSED with babies.  However, he thinks all babies are sad because he hears them cry. So as hard as I try to explain babies can be happy to, he is pretty convinced they are all sad. When he hears one in the store, he says baby sad.  He also plays with his baby doll and will burp it, fake change its diaper, and rock it.  It is pretty sweet.  I can't wait to get more settled so we can get back to doing painting, coloring, etc. I think he really enjoys that.  He is always very excited to show me his art from school.  Overall, I think he is adjusting really well to our new house! He always calls it the "how", so I think he likes it =).

Most of the rooms are unpacked.  Landon's playroom/office needs some work; I need to find a new desk since the other didn't make it.  I also need to get a few more things from the garage inside so Logan can finish cleaning up the garage so we can FINALLY park inside the garage.   I unpacked the kitchen first, then Landon's room, our room, and then the guest rooms.  Logan still needs to work on the garage, break down all the boxes in the dining room, and put some things up in the attic.

Ok now time for the photo overload:

Finished house!

Loving our door

Enjoying the space (plus yay for back lighting)

Pendent Lights

The day of the furniture delivery

Unpacking the kitchen.

Couch with some more furniture. SO glad we got this color.

Unpacked kitchen-my favorite room in the house!

Our new king size bed-if anyone wants a new mattress, we love our icomfort!

FINALLy, a bedroom set. I am sooo excited for this!

Bathroom!

Bundled up since we didn't have heat!

The new giant tv-55 inches!

Playroom with his new table and chairs from Ikea.

Enjoying so much open space to play

Being extra helpful and playing with the swiffer

The joys of unpacking-this is the dining room with about 4 ft. of boxes.

Panorama of guest room

Panorama of other guest room

This morning before MDO. His hat still fits!

Landon's room =). I just moved this around today. I like it so much better like this. 

Until next week =). Promise....
 

86 Weeks!

The little man is 86 weeks-which means he is almost 20 months old! I can't believe that we are almost out of the teens for months.

He has Mother's Day Out this morning and cried for the first time during drop off today.  I think it was different since Logan was with us.  We walked away with him crying Mommy; it was pretty sad. We signed him in and by the time we walked back passed his room he was fine, thankfully. His teacher said he was fine the rest of the morning and was happy to do art, play, and go outside. Today they made pumpkins!

Logan is back home and we are enjoying having him around! Landon missed him so much and is always a smiling guy when Logan is around to play with.  I had him looking out the front window when Logan pulled up and Landon got the biggest smile ever on his face and yelled Dada before running to the door to go meet him outside. =). I am glad that Landon doesn't seem scared to see Logan even though he has been gone and they pretty much pick up where they left off. 

In other big news, I am trying out an online job for a company called Lionbridge.  It isn't quite what I was expecting, but I am giving it a month to see if the pay is even really worth my time...so far it isn't.  I was hoping to be able to make a bit of extra money with us moving and needing to buy new things, but so far I am not impressed.  SO we will see what ends up happening and if it is worth spending nap time and evenings working by rating online content.

Here is this weeks photos:

Until next week =).

85 Weeks!

This week has been better in terms of behavior for Landon. I think his teeth are feeling better, so he hasn't been as challening...a nice way to put it =). 

He is just rather amazing at this age. I am pretty sure I hear him say something new every single day and it amazes me-he is like a little sponge. Yesterday after breakfast he kept saying done, and then some random word. I couldn't make out what it was until I asked him if he was sure he was done and he said sure-in some random baby language-that was the word he had been saying after he was done ha ha. So he was saying, done-sure...before I even asked if he was sure, smart boy!

Lately, he has been letting me rock him at night and sing to him.  He claps and says yay after every song which cracks me up.  I am glad someone enjoys my singing!

He was much better in music this week than the past week.  He followed directions and was willing to sit still. Even his teacher commented on how good he was behaving! Lets hope this is a new trend for him.  He is still loving his mothers day out! I really think in the spring we will put him in two times a week if we can afford to. When I dropped him off this morning he didn't even say goodbye, just ran to play with the trains. I yelled goodbye and he just kept playing! I guess that is good, I envisioned him crying for weeks when we started this, but instead the total opposite has happened and I love that he can be so independent! When I picked him up today he has two new bumps on his face. They said he fell off a chair and bumped his cheek bone. They said he didn't cry, just said uh oh and got back up.  Now if he were at home we would have had tears complete with lots of yelling about his eye.

Speaking of-when Landon gets hurt at home or when I am around he will grab whatever hurts and says ow or the body part. Lately though, he is a hyperchondriac and constantly grabs his eye and says eye in a sad hurt voice. I ask what happened and he just randomly points at things. Pretty funny actually. He will also do the same thing to his head. So I will kiss whatever "hurts" and send him on his way. This age is pretty funny.

For the pictures!

Art this week from MDO

Fall in CW

Play date with friends =)

BFFs

Headed to school this morning =)

Construction sites are a big hit with him these days

Looking out his bedroom window

Saying bye bye ha ha.

My big boy!

 Until next week =).

84 Weeks

It has been a crazy week around here-I feel like I say that every week =).  We certainly like to stay busy with Logan gone.

This week we had music, went to IKEA in Northern Virginia on Tuesday, our usual walk and coffee on Wednesday, and L had Mother's day out today, and I attended a local consignment sale to get L some new to him things!

Landon has done an AMAZING job at his mother's day out program. He hasn't cried at all when I left him and he always seems like he has so much fun. His two teachers say he does great with the other kids, following directions, and enjoys arts and crafts time.  Today when I picked him up they were still outside playing on the play ground. When I walked up I was rewarded with a giant grin and then he went back to playing with the bikes. I am so happy that he loves going to class and really seems to be doing great there.  I think this was great for both of us!

We have just been staying busy here. We are happy that Logan will be back home soon and that we will be getting ready to move!

Here are the pictures from this week:

MDO art project-week 1

My grouchola after MDO day one.

Swining at the new Kidsburg park

Bike ramps are fun to play on!

Out for a nature walk

Visiting the museum...he was pretty excited about the cacas (helicopters) ha ha.

Tongue out...always.

Running around inside the museum-a little boys dream world!

Choo chooooooo

Of course climbing the ladder to the storage area....

Eating like a big boy...this lasted all of 2 minutes and then it mostly ended up on the floor.

Sampling the dirt at the new house. I think he would be fine if we didn't put in grass.

Sweet sleeping baby.

Landon's art project-MDO week 2. This week he has much less glue around his mouth ;).

Playing with his new Little People garage!

Testing out his new kitchen...

He will get the hang of this eventually!

Last but not least-19 months!

 Until next week!