Landon's 6th Birthday!

Landon turned 6 years old on March 11.  It is crazy how big he looks, especially compared to his 5-year old pictures.  He loves building legos, playing with Keegan, playing the piano, doing arts and crafts, playing outside, listening to music and singing.  He is taking piano lessons, taking an art class on Wednesdays after school, and he sings in the children's choir at church.  Basketball ended for the winter and he is getting ready to start soccer in the spring and t-ball in the summer!  Landon loves school and can read chapter books!  He is also learning subtraction.  

This is what Landon woke up to the morning of his birthday, outside of his room. 

 Birthday breakfast…his favorites….donut and breakfast casserole!

 Matt made Landon a bag to take his lunch in….

 This is the birthday treat he took to school for all his classmates (Olaf in a bag!)

Landon picked to go back to Fiesta Jalapeños for his birthday.  They put a sombrero on him, sang to him in Spanish and brought him a yummy dessert!

 Opening some presents when we got home

 Showing off one of his presents…a Rip stick

 Thanks to Tim, Lori, Tyler and Nathan for his awesome goggles and head band!

 Yesterday we had Landon's birthday party.  This year we did it at a Rec Center and he got to swim.  We got a party room for the first hour for us to eat lunch, open presents and have cake.  Then, the kids got to swim for the next hour and a half.  It was a blast.  Landon said this was his best birthday ever.  His exact words were, "It was better than fun.  It was awesome!"  We are so glad he had so much fun!  Here are some pictures from the day:

Some decorations...

His Olaf Cake

The birthday boy

Landon & Keegan

Family pic

Some of the kids eating lunch...

 The other half...

 Opening presents...

Singing "Happy Birthday"

Blowing out his candles...

The swim area is a lot of fun…there is a no entry section with slides and waterfalls for the little ones, a regular pool, a lazy river around a pool with 2 water slides and a 12 ft. pool with a diving board and platform the kids can jump off of.  Everyone had a blast and the boys were sure worn out last night!

Keegan getting ready to slide...

 Landon and his friends...

 Jack

 Landon right after he jumped in...

 Some of his friends…Leah, Mei-Li, Addison, Landon and Vivian

 Cute pic of Keegan

 All his friends...

 Keegan swimming

 Vivian, Landon and Addison

 Landon going down the water slide

Vivian & Landon

Vivian, Landon and Leah

Spraying each other with water

Landon jumping off the diving board

And off the platform...

Keegan, Lexi, Landon and Jackson after the party

What a fun day!!! :)

Dr. Seuss Week

This past week was Dr. Seuss' birthday so Landon had Dr. Seuss week at school.  Matt made him a different lunch bag every day for him to take with the Dr. Seuss characters!

                                   

 Monday was "Cat in the Hat" day so Landon dressed up like the cat!

Tuesday was "Lorax" day and Landon had to wear orange, but we forgot to get a picture.

Wednesday was "Wacky Wednesday".  Here is Landon's outfit…backwards shirt, crazy shorts, mismatched socks and mismatched shoes. 

Thursday was "Thing 1 and Thing 2" day.

 And Friday was "Green Eggs and Ham" day.  Keegan wore his "Green Eggs and Ham" shirt and Landon wore green.  Matt made them green eggs for breakfast and they drank their milk out of Dr. Seuss cups.

Landon also had Centers on Friday in his class and since I only had a half day with no students on Friday, I was able to volunteer and go in and help with the centers.  I did the "Green Eggs and Ham" center where the students did subtraction story problems.  The eggs were the answers and they had to scoop them up with a spatula and put them on their green plates!

Another center was "Hop on Pop" where they played Bingo with words from that book and used popcorn as their markers.  They got to eat the popcorn in their bowls when they were done.

Another center was "The Foot Book" where they measured all sorts of objects from the Dr. Seuss books.

His last center was "Fox and Socks" where they had to play Memory with rhyming words from that book and match pairs of socks.

His teacher does a great job and it was a lot of fun to go in and help!  I got to take Landon home with me 20 minutes early so he was excited for that too.  What a fun week!!! :)

Sledding and Tubing

We have been doing some fun winter activities lately.  Last week, we all went sledding after church.  It was finally a little warmer so we could go without completely freezing to death.  The boys definitely like it more than I do, but we all had a good time.  Here are some pictures from our day!

Daddy and the boys

 Daddy and Keegan

 Mommy and the boys getting ready to sled down the hill.

 All 4 of us

The boys getting ready to head down the hill…

Landon sledding down

 

And once he stopped

Keegan going down…

The boys when they all made it down

Another family pic

 Yesterday, we drove about 45 minutes and went tubing at a ski resort.  Matt and Landon went last year, but Keegan and I had never been.  I was nervous at first, but it ended up being a lot of fun.  The boys had a blast!  Everyone has to sit in their own tube, but you can hook together so most of the time all 4 of us went down the hills together!

Keegan, getting all ready

 All 4 of us, hooked together and ready to go

 The boys playing in the tubes 

 Family pic

 Landon & Keegan with the Polar Bear

 Me pulling Keegan in his tube

 Getting ready to head down...

 Keegan having a blast going down the hill

 Landon and I going down the hill

 Keegan…so excited!

 We have had a lot of fun this winter playing in the snow, sledding and tubing!  It has been freezing most of the time though and we have a TON of snow so I am ready for spring!!