Landonese

Landon has a few choice words he has become proficient at speaking, "Mom", "Dad", "What's this?", and "that". However, he has his own trademark language, Landonese. His saying is repeated quite often throughout the day in many volumes of speech. If it were to be spelled, it might be something like this "goodtadoogtagoo". Those of you with little ones, put their tiny ears near your computer and maybe they can translate for his inquiring parents.

My Boys!!

Sweet Landon can be near falling asleep on his feet, until his hero, his Daddy arrives home. I love to hear the laughing and watching the two of them together!!!

Bubbles, bubbles, everywhere......

Remember Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and the fizzy lifting drink? I set up a bubble maker in the backyard for Landon today and felt as if we had been transported to the eccentric scenes of Willy Wonka. Absolutely one of the funnest ideas we've done! He had a blast trying to catch all the bubbles with his mouth and hands, not to mention a little education time, working on our baby sign language for bubbles. Three bottles of bubbles later, we called it a day.

Just another day at the park!

Landon and I decided to take our chances with the weather this morning and head out to the park. He became quite engulfed with the swarm of quacking ducks. I brought a bag of bagels for "duck food", which Landon quickly decided he wanted to share their stale treat.

This kid loves the sand...I naturally had to resist my germaphobe instincts and not to follow him around with sanitizer. So I dove right in there playing in the sand and making sand piles too.

Soaking up our son!!

Every day with our sweet little boy is mesmerizing! Moment by moment he learns so much and we just can't get enough of just sitting back and watching him, captivated by what he knows, learns, and says. Landon is soaking in every movement we make and we soak in all of his!! A few precious moments captured today...

Just doin' some writing, like Mom and Dad!

Playing MacGyver with items he collected from a drawer...watches, a flashlight, gum, and a box!

A little light cooking. He organized and lined up the pans and lids all by himself!

Why walk, when you can flip?!

Yesterday marked the start of Landon's semester at The Little Gym. Landon's recent, favorite trick to perform is back flips! When we hold him he loves to arch backwards, use his feet to push off our chest, then swings them around to a solid landing. To any first-timer viewing this trick, it can be quite alarming. Landon tries to perform forward flips over a toy that looks like a gymnast bar. We have quite the little gymnast on our hands! With that said, we felt he needed to get back to his gym class.

Through the entire class, Landon did not stop smiling. He was in toddler heaven, getting to do flips, play on the bars, and climbing up and down the stairs. Needless to say, he did not want to leave!!! Can't wait to see what his next upcoming stunt to perform will be!

"This?"

Oh, the world is such a wonder of vibrant sights and sounds to a child. Landon had learned to say"What's this?" with a finger pointed. Over the past couple of weeks he has shorted his eager question to just "This?" with his pointer finger on overdrive. "This?" has now become his choice of word every couple of seconds. His intelligence, I believe, is vastly growing, and his mind is a big, endless sponge. We love showing everything he wants to see....and trust me, he wants to know what everything in his sight is. This is only one of the millions of amazing and adorable things he does everyday!

House of Germs!

Well, we are not starting the New Year off with a bang, but with coughs and sniffles. Landon passed his cold over to me and fortunately, for his sake, I have gotten the worst of it. Scot has been working overtime taking care of us and thank goodness for the Moms for coming over to add in their TLC.

The Zee household is looking forward to 2009...lots of planning under way for vacations and getting together with our family and friends. We look forward to all the brilliant surprises the year has to offer, as each year gets better and brighter! Stay tuned for more in 2009!