Two Southern Boys: Airplanes and Helicopters

I'm backkkkkkkkk... Did you miss me? Today is the perfect day to work on my blog, as I currently have no voice. While Kevin may thoroughly enjoy me not being able to talk, I am finding it annoying. Especially when you're a teacher and you're trying to stop a 3-year-old student from getting into mischief. Anyway, here I am again. It's been far too long since the last blog, I know this. Just as I think that our lives are going to calm down and we're going to have a break in the craziness we always find some sort of fun to get into!

January and February zipped by, our weekends were jam packed and most of our weeks filled up with extra activities. So, without further yapping here's what's been going on in January and February...

Landon continues to grow like a weed both physically and mentally. The rate in which he is learning new words is just off the charts. He's even begin to make two word sentences. I know, I know, every parent thinks their child is a genius, (cough cough, Harvard, I hope you're reading this and putting him on the list for admission now, full ride of course.) but being that I am a teacher I can say that this is not normal. His vocabulary is very advanced even compared to many children 6 months older than him. We absolutely love hearing new words coming out of his mouth... not to worry we've cleaned up our mouths so he won't be repeating those "fun" words.

Airplane. Helicopter. Two words that sum up Landon's newest obsession. Yeah, we still love cars and trucks, but usually he spends his drive home from school looking out of the sunroof going "Bye bye airplane, bye bye helicopter." Actually, most days, it's all he says in the car. The good news for him, is that when the weather is nice we have a children's park that's right on the Dekalb airport (the second busiest airport in Georgia!) and it's about a 5 minute drive from our house. He sits with his mouth agape as he watches airplanes come and go every few minutes.

The Goodbye to the Fish

We sadly had to put our goldfish, Clementine down. Yes, it means exactly what you think it does. The goldfish went to the big bowl in the sky. The poor thing had been swimming upside down for weeks and it's belly was red. The part about how the fish was flushed is the story... My friend had come over to keep my company while Kev was out of town. I decided it was time to flush the fish so Emily and I put the fella in the toilet. Landon walked over to the toilet, said bye bye fish, slammed the lid down and walked over and flushed the toilet. All this happened before we even knew what was going on. I'm not sure to find this worrisome, or hilarious. What I do know, is that it makes me nervous as to what will be flushed down the toilet in the future...

A few weeks ago Landon has some visitors drive up from Florida to visit! Kevin's Grandma, Aunt Thelma, Aunt Moe and Aunt Peg made the trek to see this special boy. He absolutely ate up all the attention they gave him and of course used his cuteness to his advantage and by the end of the weekend had a new book, a new jelly cat and a toy airplane (that sings the worlds most annoying song.) He was a complete ham the entire weekend and had everyone in stitches from the time he woke up to the time he went to bed. We love when we have visitors here, it's always so special because the time we have isn't so cluttered with places we have to be and trying to fit in seeing everyone!

After dinner with all the family, a random parade went by for Mardi Gras! Landon LOVED all the beads.

Grandma and Aunt Moe putting Landon down for bed.

Weeeeeeeee. Of course we took them to the airplane park!

Happy happy 33rd birthday Daddy!

We celebrated Kev's 33rd birthday in January! Kev wanted to eat at Kevin Rathbun's steak house for dinner and then finish out the night with dessert and after dinner drinks. We're slowly starting to learn birthdays after your 20's just aren't nearly as much fun!