A Visit Home

Last weekend Landon and I went home for Adelin's first birthday party. I couldn't miss her first birthday! It was kind of a last minute decision, so my parents were the only people that knew. We surprised everyone else and had so much fun. I had school on Thursday and Friday before we left, but not on the following Monday. So, Landon and I flew into Chicago on Friday night and stayed with my parents. Saturday we headed to Downs for Ade's birthday party and then spent the night with them. On Sunday, we were able to just hang out at Jeremy, Cindy and Ade's new house (which I love) and let Adelin and Landon play together. My parents came up for dinner and then Landon and I went back to Lincoln for the night. We flew back home on Monday afternoon. Here are a few pics from our trip home! Matt had to work on Monday, so he wasn't able to go with us. He got some projects done at our house and got to catch up on some sleep while we were gone.

I love this picture! This is Landon and Ade checking each other out!

Landon in his volleyball t-shirt, supporting Aunt Cara's first game!

Here are Dad and Mom with their grandkids!

Jeremy and I with our kids....this picture makes me feel old! It is crazy how much our lives have changed in the past year, and we wouldn't trade it for anything!

Adelin got a new wagon for her birthday. She absolutely loved it and let Landon sit with her in it for awhile. He was still too little to ride in it, but he enjoyed spending some time with his cousin!

This is a video of Landon in Adelin's jumperoo. He loves to jump, so he really enjoyed this. Matt and I got him a jumperoo this week, so we will have to post pics later of him in it when we get it put together!

Cereal Video

Let's play Matt's favorite game...Name the movie!

"Hey batta-batta-batta-batta, sahweeng batta!"

Aww, look how cute and clean

Landon and daddy both in green

Here's a fun video of Landon eating cereal

Video Update...check out the previous post for more pictures

Here are some videos: 1 of Landon rolling this afternoon and another of him laughing like crazy a few weeks back.

See the next post down for the rest of the update and more pictures

Cereal, update and new pictures

Hey everyone! Sorry it has been awhile since we have updated the blog. Time just seems to fly by lately. I can't believe the summer is over and I have to go back to school this week. The good news is that I get to go part-time. That means that I will teach the first three periods a day. So, I will teach from 7:40-10:30 every day and then I will get to spend the rest of the day with Landon! I am so excited about this. Landon has a wonderful baby-sitter that will watch him for a few hours while I am at work, but at least now I will get to spend every afternoon with him. I was not looking forward to leaving Landon, and now it will work out that I won't have to for very long. It will still be terrible to drop him off in the mornings, but I will be there a few hours later to get him! Matt seems to enjoy his new job and is happy with the change. He gets home at least an hour earlier now, which we all love!

Landon is getting so big. He is already 5 months old! He can pretty much sit up on his own and he officially rolled from his back to his stomach, then back again this afternoon! We introduced cereal for the first time last week. At first, he did not like it at all. I think that was partly my fault because I made it too thick. Now that it is thinner, he seems to enjoy it more. It goes EVERYWHERE, but what he gets in his mouth, I think he likes! He looks like such a big boy when he is sitting in his high chair and eating.

Landon eating cereal for the 1st time

Holding the spoon all by himself

We went out to dinner the other night and wanted to take a picture of our happy, adorable baby! He is wearing Matt's old shoes, so they are 26 years old!

Landon and Mommy

His Cardinal outfit for Mommy (They are leading the division, after all!)

His Cub outfit for Daddy. It looks like he is wearing a skirt here, but he isn't. We promise! His outfit is just a little big right now and doesn't fit right! The bottoms are just supposed to cover his diaper, but they didn't stay up real well.

This is Matt's old outfit as well. The shirt was a little tight on his belly, and the shorts fit like the Cubs shorts....a little too big!

Landon getting ready to go to the Corn Festival. This is the first time he wore jeans and we love his little outfit!

This is all three of us on our anniversary. We went out to eat at Maggiano's.