Downs and Lincoln

While we were at home, we got to spend a little time in Downs with Jeremy, Cindy, Adelin and Chloe. Landon loves his cousins and had a great time playing with them. Here are some pictures from our trip to Downs. Enjoy!

Chloe wearing her hat outside

Adelin and Landon playing on the swing set

Chloe in the Jumperoo

Landon and Chloe

Chloe, Landon and part of me

Jeremy, Adelin, Grandma and Landon coloring

Landon and Chloe

Landon loved swimming at my parents house. He is fearless and even went down the slide all by himself! What a big boy!

Grandma and Landon in the pool

Landon and Lexi swimming

We were able to see my friend Angie, and her twin girls, Macy and Maggie. Angie looks great and the girls are absolutely adorable. Landon loved playing with them. We had a hard time getting pictures of everyone, but here are some attempts.

This is the best picture of all 5 of us!

Giving hugs

Matt's Family

When we got home from Sesame Place and Ocean City, Matt's family came to stay with us for a few days. We had a blast and Landon loved all the attention he got! Thanks for coming to visit! Here are a few pics from their visit.

Cara and Matt

Landon and Mommy

Landon and Aunt Cara

Fun times on the swingset

Mommy and Landon on phones

Daddy and Landon playing on the playground

Landon and I came home with Matt's family a few days early to hang out in Lincoln. We got to meet up with Chuck, Michelle, James and Sophia in Chicago on the way home. The kids had fun playing together and it was great to see them.

James, Landon and Sophia

Ocean City, MD

After 3 days at Sesame Place we headed to Ocean City, MD. We've been enjoying great weather and having fun on the beach and at the pool. Landon has been doing great wearing his water wings in the pool. He is getting much better at swimming all over on his own. He doesn't really like walking on the hot sand, but does have fun playing in it once we get to the water. He loves to be held in the ocean and let the waves crash in on him.

Checking out the view from our balcony

On the Boardwalk

Finding a shell

Playing with his bucket of shells

Buried feet

He loves jumping into the pool

Mini Golf

Playing in his Count's Sand Castle

Resting in a hammock after a long day at the beach and pool

What a fun vacation, until tonight that is. We had quite a scare with Landon. He had a seizure as we were driving to dinner. We pulled over, got him out of his car seat, called 911 and luckily a nurse and a paramedic stopped to help us. Landon came out of it within a couple of minutes, but it was extremely scary and awful to see him like that. Once he was in the ambulance, we determined that Landon had a fever and that is what caused the seizure. Landon and I rode to the hospital in the ambulance, just in case he would have another one on the way and Matt followed us in the car. The doctor who examined him in the ER could not fine anything wrong with him, other than the high fever. They gave him Motrin and Tylenol and sent him home. He has acted completely normal since then, so hopefully he is okay. He is such a good little boy and acted completely normal all day. We are waking him every 4 hours to give him medicine, but his fever was almost back to normal by the time we got back to the hotel. We are glad we are headed home tomorrow and that Landon will get a chance to rest. He has had a busy, exciting week and needs a little down time. We are going to have his normal pediatrician check him out early next week just to make sure everything is okay. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers.

Sesame Place Day 3

Today was our last day at Sesame Place. We were there at 9 for Breakfast with Elmo & Friends, and stayed until it closed at 8. Breakfast was fun, great food, and Landon got to give hugs to Elmo, Bert & Ernie, and Zoe. Today was 80 and sunny so we did some water rides, and rode all of the dry ones too. Landon got more brave each day we were here. He isn't scared around the characters anymore. He went up to everyone today on his own and gave them all hugs and high 5's. After getting his picture with all of them he would wave and tell them "thank you"! We got to see Count, and Landon went through the line twice. We had a great time at Sesame Place and are leaving in the morning to go to Ocean City, MD for the next few days. Over the past 3 days we have spent a total of 27.5 hours at Sesame Place(and Landon LOVED every second), took 420 pictures and about 1.5 hours of videos!

We saw Oscar right when we walked in this morning, we told him to "have a rotten day"!

At breakfast w/ Elmo

With the friends at breakfast

Count all by himself (of course he brought Count with him too)

Hugs for Count

On Elmo's Cloud Chaser w/ Daddy

Ready for Elmo's Blast Off (a ride that sho0ts you straight up and then drops you back down)

Flying like Super Grover on Sesame Street

Splashing in Big Birds Lazy River

In front of Count's Splash Castle (that bucket dumped a ton of water every couple minutes)

Cookie Monster

Abby Cadabby

Grover loved Landon's Super Grover shirt that has a cape on the back

Bert & Ernie

Merry-Go-Round w/ Mommy & Daddy

Thanks Sesame Place; we'll see you in October for The Count's Halloween Spook-tacular!!

Sesame Place Day 2

Today we were at Sesame Place from 10-4:30. It was really nice and sunny most of the day and started to rain a little around 3:30 and during the parade at 4. We then came back to the hotel and went into Philadelphia to get cheesesteaks at Pat's & also at Geno's. We both liked Geno's better. Today's big highlight was Landon going all by himself to see Elmo and give him a big hug. We didn't see Count today outside of the parade, so we'll hunt him down tomorrow. We rode lots of rides today. Tomorrow we have breakfast with Elmo & Friends before the park opens, and it is supposed to be sunny and warm so we are doing water rides most of the day.

In front of the Sesame hedges

Elmo

Abby Cadabby

Riding the Merry-Go-Round all by himself

Elmo's Flying Fish w/ Mommy

In Count Teacup on Grover's World Whirl

Enjoying a Philly Cheesesteak

Video of Landon hugging Elmo