New picture site & blog

We have a new picture site & blog. Hopefully you got the email & saw the link. If you would like to keep up with us in the new way - leave me a comment & I'll be sure to send it to you!

I'll be posting there now! It'll be easier to keep pictures & journals all in the same place!

See you on the flipside!

Mark & I took Landon up to the Children's Museum of Houston the other day. Some friends told us that they had a great baby section so we checked it out. Landon LOVED it! We spent 2 hours there and could have stayed longer. We never left the baby portion - it had mirrors & blocks and little cars to sit in and all sorts of stuff designed just for babies/toddlers. Landon's favorite was the lego table - he's really into building stuff - at home his favorite toys are his blocks & stackables...he can manipulate them in every way possible and come up with new games to play with them all the time. So the lego table was a hit there! (Which told us what to get him for his bday!) He has gotten in a habit of sticking his tongue out just slightly when he's concentrating- it's a cute habit - but notice in all the newer pictures that his little tongue is out when he's really thinking hard!! :)

1st Halloween & other fun stuff

Landon has been having so much fun lately, he can barely stand it :)

I took him to the Wildlife Park in Alvin with a good friend of mine & her 5 yr old son! Her 5 year old just LOVES Landon and has made up a song to help him go to sleep when he stays with them and helped him look at books in the backseat and played with him as we drove to Alvin. The wildlife park was awesome - SO many animals - ostriches, zebras, giraffes, goats, cows, longhorns, kangaroos, donkeys, wallabies & camels. We rode a tram ride and the animals would lean in to eat out of our buckets of food. Here's just a couple of pics.

AND...Halloween - Landon was SO adorable. He was a puppy dog and we just took him to his grandparents house and great-grandparents' house to trick-or-treat. We were going to take him down the street but he'd about had enough by that point :)

11 months old!

Landon is 11 months old.

He is crawling all over the place and loves being mobile. He wants to walk really badly and is starting to "let go" of the furniture some to see what happens. He is really into pushing his blocks all around the room and especially in the kitchen where they slide more. He loves to push them away then pull them all back to himself. It's really funny to watch.

He LOVES to be outside, especially with this cooler weather. We have taken many trips to the park in the afternoon, walks in the stroller and sitting outside playing with Jasmine!

Workin' in the yard

It was so beautiful this weekend that Mark, Landon & I spent an afternoon in the yard planting a new rose bush and just cleaning up the gardens. It was nice to spend the time together.

We put Landon in the wheelbarrow and the little boy he is, banged the pumpkin around and then found a way to find the little bit of dirt still left in there after we had dumped it!!

Aggie Football

Gig Em'! - This is a cute hand-me-down from Cousin Ben we got!

BTHO Texas Tech!!

I can pull my aggie shoes off REALLY fast!

And...
this is what I think of Mommy making me wear shoes! :)

(I didn't post the picture Mark took of Landon peeing on me...he hasn't done that in probably 6 months but he has a new habit of crawling away as you change his diaper and sometimes I let him crawl around naked so he gets some air down there and because it is so darn cute but today it was my downfall.)

Pumpkin Patch

I took Landon to the Pumpkin Patch yesterday with a friend of ours from church & her little boy.

The pumpkin patch is really cool here in LJ...they set up all these haystacks & benches & tractors & stuff for kids to take pictures with...the schools in town do field trips here and it's a mission project for the church but the picture opportunities really get people out, too!

Anyway, the boys were adorable and we had a great time letting them play in the pumpkins & taking their pictures!!

These are those moments that are SO fun as a Mommy...then again, even the scream & cry in the middle night maybe isn't fun but is so rewarding to be the one holding that little child you created. I love motherhood.