A Day at the Park

My Parents watch Kaitlyn on Wednesday's while I work. Now that the weather has turned nice, they try to get her outside more. Here are a couple of pictures from a trip to the Oakdale Park! I'd say they speak for themselves! She had a grrreat time!!! And of course it didn't hurt that she was with Mimi and Rogie.

YEAH!!!

Easter Weekend

We were able to go to PA for the Easter weekend. It is Landis tradition to do an easter egg hunt for all the kiddos! They each had 24 eggs to find and some presents too! Of course Kaitlyn enjoyed it so much she wanted everyone's eggs, not just the ones with her name on them! :)
We had a great weekend catching up with family and spending time with one another! For most it had been since Christmas, and for some even since Thanksgiving! When you have a large family, sometimes it is hard to get everyone together.

The current 7 grandchildren- at least most of them are looking pretty happy, don't ya think?!

Surprise 40th Birthday Party

W-O-W!  My HUSBAND decided it would be a great idea to throw his wife a SURPRISE Birthday party for the big 4-0 birthday!  He recruited the help of my family and some dear friends of mine and they pulled it all off! 

See- don't I look surprised?!?

The perfect cake for me.  It has stripes, polka dots, gerber daisy flowers and it's Red Velvet... that about sums it up!  Great job Lourdes!

What a w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l afternoon with so many loved ones.  I felt cherished and blessed by family and friends!  A day that I will truly remember for a lifetime! 

Vacation Hilton Head March 2010

Matt and I decided we would try and take a vacation early this year with the baby coming in July!  So we found a place in Hilton Head, SC for a week and took along both of our parents!  The 7 of us had a very nice time!  Lots of relaxing, sight seeing, shopping, golfing, walking, and then some!

We took several hours one day and went to Harbor Town, you know the place where the Verizon Heritage Classic Golf Tournament is played!

 

Not sure if Kaitlyn was walking Pop Pop or if Pop Pop was pushing Kaitlyn!  I think it just depended on how tired she was at the moment!

The place we stayed was on a golf course, SURPRISE I KNOW!  Earlier in the days you could take walks on the course and find alligators along the water holes on the course!  This one was across the 'pond' from me, but it is still looking pretty big to me! That is as close as I needed to get.

A day in Savannah GA- Kaitlyn had the best ride all day long!  I was wishing I had one of these by the end of the day and all that walking.  But it was just as I pictured it- the weeping trees and Southern Homes.

One quick trip to the beach!  We had to see the ocean while we were there!  The weather was cooperative, but not so much as to spend lots of time laying around on the beach.  Kaitlyn had fun walking and playing in the sand as we found sand dollars and starfish though! 

A Few of her Favorite Things

Kaitlyn is developing some definite opinions about things these days :) And it amazes me that she has the total girl instinct in different things that she chooses! So 10 of Kaitlyn's favorite things include:

Spicy Chips
Dill Pickels
Yogos
Ice Cream
Cream (lotion)
Cell Phones
Baby Dolls
Beads
Music-dancing
Bo-Bo (her teddy blankie)

Somewhere, somehow, K has developed a liking for Martins BBQ "Spicy Chips" and Dill Pickels! And NO it is not because her mommy is pregnant! :) She discovered these on her own and on a whim! Things I was eating at one time or another and continually asked mommy for
'mow-or' (more)... so I let her try them, KNOWING that she would NOT like either one and then I stood by and just watched her gobble them up!

Two of her favorite treats are Yogos and Ice Cream! Loving ice cream in this house I believe is like a pre-req. Everytime her daddy or mommy has a bowl, she eats like half of it! And the Yogos, we have to ration around here! She would eat them all day long if she could! Thank goodness Sharp Shopper carries these pretty regularly! :)

Her Mimi (my mom) always has lotion in her purse and pulls it out enough times that K has become very interested in it! Everytime Mimi has her 'cream' she has to have some for her hands too! Mimi made sure to include 'cream' in Ks Valentine package- and YES she has been carrying it around in her very own zipper bag for the past 2 days now! (I probably have lotion all over this house now! But kids need to be kids, right?!)

K still has a major fasination with cell phones! She has an older one that use to charge and light up, but now it no longer does, so this one is not nearly as intriguing as daddy's flip phone or mommy's slide phone with all the lights we have and all! She will take a phone and place it to her ear, put her shoulder to her ear to help hold the phone there and just start having a conversation with someone! It is so cute to watch her imagination!

Baby dolls have been a great entertaining toy for K. She loves to carry them and 'rock' them- she even sings "Rock A Baby" (her own version of rock-a-bye baby) to her babies as she holds them and rocks them! She loves to put diapers on them. And she knows how many babies she is carrying (well if it is no more than 2 anyways!) She even sets them at her little table and feeds them sometimes.

A quick trip to the dollar store and 8 strands of plastic color beads for $1 have provided more happiness and FUN for K than the $20 toys she got at Christmas! Go figure- right?! That seems to be the way it usually is! She loves to wear them and they have also helped her learn colors like - red, blue, green, purple! She also likes to put the beads on daddy so he can wear them too!

K watches a little TV throughout the day - she generally gets bored with it before we would even turn it off- but what she really likes is all the singing and dancing and music that shows like Handy Manny and Mickey Mouse Club House have- the "Hot Dog" song, is one of her favorties! Partially embarrassed to admit it, but she really likes the Gilmore Girls theme song... she can be playing in another room and if that comes on, she comes running to the TV to dance to it! (I wonder who watches that? hehehe)

Last, but defintely not least (probably most important to her) is her Bo Bo. This is a blankie with a teddy bear head on it that she sleeps with and wakes up with and plays with and MUST have when she is hurt or sad or crying or needy or happy or playing... you get the picture! A friend gave it to me at a shower and it has really become her security blanket I believe. It makes her so happy and makes her feel good!

Thanks for sharing some of K favorite things with us today! She is growing up so fast! 21 months already!!! She is so imaginative, intuitive, investigative, and so much more!!!

Snow Video

Well, we were able to get the video camera working for just a bit this morning, so we captured just a few minutes of snow-fun!!!

The 4x4 Bubble Car

So... we are getting a little snow this morning! Again.... I just LOVE to watch it come down! It is so beautiful! And this snow is actually Kaitlyn's first snow to get out and play in. Unfortunately, the last snow(s) we've had she has been sick or had a pretty bad cold- so Mommy made her stay inside. So we got her all bundled up (as best as we could anyways) and sent her out! I think she liked it, but she didn't last very long....


Buxton also l-o-v-e-s the snow... he loves to lay in it, roll in it, eat it, toss it in the air...

The 4x4 Bubble Car! In case you were wondering if these Bubble Cars were all terrain or not... Of course Daddy is getting double duty; shoveling a path and pushing the car...




This has GOT to be one of her favorite toys, all year round she wants to ride in this thing- rain, sleet, or snow (maybe it should be a mail carrier's vehicle?)



And YES.... she likes eating it too! i suppose we all do; made me think of when my Mom use to make snow cream!