Getting ready for Christmas Day

Well Christmas Eve is tomorrow. We all feel very festive this year, as a matter of fact those were Cameron's exact words. I just yesterday finished up my shopping. Tomorrow my family is driving to come see me. The house is cleaned and the menu us set. So I'm ready.
Last night we had so much fun together as a family. Cameron and Landon made sugar cookies while I watched and held Liam. Then we made a gingerbread house. Landon took a step back and said wow it is so beautiful! We had a good time listening to Landon. Everyday he says new phrases and you never know what is going to come out of his mouth. Now Liam in the other hand is so much fun to watch. All I have to do is look in his direction and he gives me a huge smile. He is learning his own voice and can now giggle. It is so sweet. You should just hear me going on and on forever making all kinds of sounds just to hear that sweet giggle. I will never get enough of hearing that sweet sound. He also can now look at objects and trys to touch them. He is already getting to big. Sniff, sniff..... I wish he could stay a tiny little baby forever. Well let the festivities begin. Time to start cooking!

Binkyland

I new for a while that Landon was getting a little to big for his binky habit. When he was 2 1/2 we only let him have it for bedtime. That was going well except for the times he would hide them behind his back and then suck on them watching cartoons with his blanket covering half of his face. He thought he was being so sneaky. Finally his dentist told us that we should take it away when he was three so that it wouldn't effect his teeth. I just dreaded the day. I kept putting it off. But I thought now would be a better time than ever because I am still getting up in the middle of the night with Liam. So the day came. My mom had thought of the idea of putting them in a box and sending them to Binkyland. I found a perfect sized box and got out some paper. Landon ahead of time new what was up. He started to throw a huge temper tantrum. You know the ones where he is gasping for air and thinks he is going to die. Oh the drama! So I decided to wait and try until he calmed down. I was really trying to have a lot of compassion for him. He has never slept a night without them since he was born. If we couldn't find any we would make a late night run to the store. So after dinner he saw me cutting out shapes and he wanted to participate. It went great! He had one last suck and them out them in the box. Then we walked him to the mailbox and let him put it in. Now going to sleep didn't go so smooth. He cried for about 45 mins and then got up several times in the night coming into our room asking for them. But every night since then it has gotten better and better. I am so proud of him. I told him he was a brave soldier. He loves it when I tell him that. We also bought him the movie Polar Express to reward him.

Landon is so excited about Christmas

Last night Landon got a kitchen chair and climbed onto the counter to grab his daddy's flashlight. He got down, turned it on and then went over to our fire place and looked up the chimney. I asked "Landon what are you looking for"? He replied "Santa is going to come down and see me soon"! Poor thing doesn't realize just yet that he has got like a full month until Christmas.

Liam gave me quite the scare this morning. Around 5:45am he let out the loudest scream that could ever come out of a 2 month old! I jumped out of bed and ran into his room. I flipped on the light and jerked the poor thing so fast out of his crib. My heart was racing. I looked him over thinking something has stung him or has bitten him. Silly old me, I guess it was a bad dream. I took him into our bedroom and had him lay on my chest until I calmed down. I never fell asleep because about 30mins later Landon came in wanting milky and waffles. I guess I can handle another day of being sleep deprived.

Starting my Journal

Cameron and I went over to the Brown's tonight and Lisa showed me her blog. I thought wow what a great idea. I wish I would had started this earlier. It is so easy to forget all of the sweet thing that happen to you in life. I want to remember how Landon likes to tell me a million times a day that he is a child of God. Not only just me but EVERYONE! The guy behind us in Walmart, the cashier, everyone standing in the Subway line waiting to get there sandwich, every mom in the playgroups and their children. I could go on and on forever. It reminds me of his innocence at this age. So sweet. Then there is Liam. Sweet precious Liam. You really appreciate the tiny baby phase your second time around. The only problem is it went by so fast! At 10 weeks he looks like a 5 month old. He weighs 14.5lbs and is 25 1/2 inches long. How these big boys came from me blows my mind. I can finally get him to really smile at me by making a high pitched cooing sound and kissing his neck. I get the biggest smiles from him when I do that. I think he is very ticklish. I was cutting his little toenails tonight and had the hardest time doing it because he kept jerking his feet away. Another way I can tell he is ticklish is because whenever I squeeze his thighs he makes a loud grunting noise. So funny! Landon went to bed early tonight so it has been nice to catch up on some stuff and get some alone time with Cam.