Count's Halloween Spook-tacular

We went to Sesame Place on October 8 & 9 to see the Halloween themed Spook-tacular! Landon had a great time as always.

The usual picture in front of the Sesame sign

With Daddy on Grover's World Twirl (Mommy couldn't ride many rides this trip)

The characters all wore their Halloween costumes. Last year Elmo wore his bones costume and sang the Bones song with Count. Therefore Landon needed his own bones costume. Here he is wearing it with Murray and Elmo. He also wore it during the show to match the characters and did a great job singing and dancing along with them!

Landon got selected to go out and dance in the parade. He danced and got to jump rope before he came back to stand with us.

Ernie & Bert in their Rubby Duckie and Pigeon costumes

This time we ate dinner with the characters since it was Dinner w/ Count. It was a costume dinner so Landon wore his Count cape and let us paint his face. He says he wants it purple for Halloween

With Count at Dinner. Can you tell which is Landon?

Swimming w/ Daddy in the hotel pool Saturday night

Trick-or-Treating at Sesame Place

Mommy & Landon on Big Bird's Balloons

Happy Halloween!!!

The week before we left Landon started wearing real underwear. He's been doing great for three weeks with hardly any accidents. What a big boy! Cheeessseee!

Halloween Fun

A Halloween Video for you!

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Baby McQuality

For those of you who may not have known, Baby McQuality will join our family sometime in February. I am due February 19! We are very excited and Landon is super excited to be a big brother. He always kisses my stomach and tells the baby, "Good Morning", "Good night" or "I love you baby". It is very sweet. Landon will turn 3 shortly after the baby arrives and will be the best big brother and a great helper! I am 21 1/2 weeks right now. I was a little sick this time at the beginning of my pregnancy and have been tired, but other than that I'm doing well. Here are a couple pictures from our ultrasound when I was almost 20 weeks pregnant. We did not find out the sex of the baby, nor will we. We like to be surprised :) We don't care what the sex is one way or the other, we just want a healthy baby! However, when we showed Landon the ultrasound pics he said, "Look, that's my baby sister!" Apparently he thinks we are having a girl. It is so crazy how much 3D ultrasounds show, especially when the baby doesn't even weigh a pound yet. What is your guess on the gender of the baby?

Apple Orchard

A few weeks ago we headed to an apple orchard. Landon loved playing in the hay maze, seeing animals, playing with some fun fall stuff, going on the hay rack ride and picking the apples. It was a beautiful day and we had a lot of fun. Landon and I ate the apples (since Daddy doesn't eat any fruit, of course), made two apple pies for when we have company this winter and also made apple brownies. What a fun day!! Enjoy the pictures :)

Great picture on the pumpkins

Posing by the fun sign

By a giant pumpkin with Mommy

Another cute picture

Look how tall he is....36 inches!!

Driving a tractor

In the hay maze

Picking apples with Daddy

And picking one all by himself

Showing off the apples we got

Sitting in the back of the wagon

Here are the apple pies we made, we forgot to take pictures of the brownies. Landon was a great helper with all of the baking!!

During spirit week at school, it was "Sports Jersey" Day so I wore my Pujols jersey. Landon wore his too and this is the day they won and clinched the wild card!

GO CARDS!!!!

Skating!!

Check out Landon skating all by himself for the very first time...

Videos

Here's a couple new videos of Landon. The first is from his music class on Tuesday nights. Last week was the 1st night. He loved playing with the parachute (as you can watch). The 2nd is the first time he had on his new roller skates. Thanks Sophia!!

Random pictures

We haven't updated the blog for awhile so we have some random pictures to show you. We went home for about 39 hours this weekend (quick trip) to see my grandpa who has been in the hospital since mid August after open heart surgery. He was doing pretty well when we saw him, so hopefully he gets to come home soon. It was great to see all our family while we were there. Nothing else new here. I am back in school and Matt started his new job today, so we are back in routine, unfortunately :(. We are always sad when summer is over. We hope you all had a good Labor Day weekend and enjoyed your extra day off!

Landon getting ready to catch the ball

A couple weeks ago Chuck, Michelle, James and Sophia came to stay with us for a night on their way to the east coast. We had a lot of fun with them. This is James and Landon at dinner.

After dinner, we took them to our favorite Ice cream place, Mitchell's. Here are a couple group pictures.

James read the bedtime story....such a cute picture! Thanks for stopping to see us guys!

A family pic before we headed to a block party at our church

Landon showing off his face painting from the church party

Landon and I did some baking last week. We made rice krispie treats and also muffins. Here are some pics of Landon helping with the rice krispie treats!

Stirring the mixture on the stove

Helping me pour it into the mixing bowl

Mixing everything up

Putting in in the pan

So messy, but such a good little helper

Eating the finished product after dinner that night

When we got home from Illinois Sunday night, Matt thought it would be fun to have a "camp out" with a tent. We had talked about this with Landon all summer but never got around to it. It was too cold and rainy to camp outside (and we don't have a tent :)) so Matt made a tent in Landon's room. All of us slept on the futon mattress on Landon's bedroom floor under the tent. We had the windows open and had a nice, relaxing night. We even kept the tent up for Landon's nap the next day, which he loved. What a fun night....good idea, Daddy!

Getting all ready for bed

So tired from the busy weekend and long car ride home

Although you can't tell here, it was really dark in the room and Landon was shining his flashlight, Flicker, on the tent. He thought this was pretty cool!

Before camping, Landon opened up a package from Grandma and Aunt Cara. He got new Halloween pajamas with Bones and Batty Bats. He loves them and couldn't wait to try them on. They fit perfectly, but it was too hot for him to wear them that night. Maybe in a few weeks!

Such silly faces modeling his new pj's