Happy Birthday Landon!

It is so hard to believe that FIVE years ago today we welcomed our little Landon into the world. What a whirlwind that five years has been and now I'm left wondering what I'm going to do with myself when he starts kindergarten next fall.


Landon, you have been such a joy to our family. What would we do without all the funny, silly things you say and do? You bring so much happiness to us. I feel so blessed to be your mommy and to be able to spend each and every day with you.












You can tell in so many ways that Landon is the baby, but in different ways. He DEFINITELY gets away with a little more than the other three did - but just a little - and seriously, it's Chris' fault!! Most of the time when that happens it's because Chris is in stitches, laughing at whatever Landon did or said! Landon is a very independent little boy. He has learned to do things on his own by watching all of the other kids around him. At 22 months, just out of the blue, he took his diaper off, went to the bathroom on the toilet and told me he was a big boy and didn't want to wear diapers anymore. That was the end of that!! I could not believe he potty trained himself. If they could all be that easy this world would be full of a lot less stressed parents!! Also from a very young age, he watched the older kids rinse their dinner dishes in the sink after dinner. One night, I turned around to find him perched on the edge of the sink rinsing his. He STILL does that. I have a picture somewhere, but it's not organized into his book yet so I couldn't include it in the pics I posted on here. He's been working the DVD player and TV for a long time....(he's his father's child when it comes to electronics!) I will never forget when I saw him teach himself to ride a scooter when he was just barely two. I didn't know kids that young could balance so well. Then, a year later, with determination and the will to succeed, he taught himself how to ride a two wheeler - AGAIN, ALL BY HIMSELF!! He's never liked me to do things for him. He's always wanted to do them himself. I wasn't used to independence at such an early age. None of the other kids were like that. And when it came to going to school, he just ran off, like it was no big deal, leaving me there in tears. So here I sit today, reminiscing about the past five years, tearing up as I look at the pictures of years that have past to never return. I'm so grateful that I'm such a shutterbug! I've got pictures bulging from all of the storage bins I keep them in that need to be put into books and eventually scrapbooked, but until I get that done, I can only show you pics of his first year, plus the one I took of him today on this stormy, snowy election day.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LANDON!! We love you so much!!