March 2015

Mid-March, Landen lost his second tooth! He wasn't scared this time like he was when he lost the first one. At this rate, he'll have a whole new set of permanent teeth by second grade!!! (Please excuse his bed head, lol.)

March means the beginning of BASEBALL season! Yay!! 

Ethan's travel ball team had their first tournament and both boy's rec. ball teams started practicing.

                    In the dugout...

    Landen and his buddies, Maddox and          

    Jagger.

    Landen's first practice on a PeeWee 

    team. He is playing on the Braves this 

    year. I was worried about moving him 

    up a league but his dad felt strongly 

    that we should. So far it's going good!

    Dressed for "Purple Day" at MDO...

Ethan had an art piece in a student exhibit at The Gallery on the Square and they held a reception/art show for the students and their families. 

    Waiting on Dad to arrive...

    Ethan with his artwork (the snowman)

    Talking to a reporter about his piece. 

    This picture makes me giggle...he is 

    so serious! We are so proud of him!

    The reporter came over to me and 

    asked if I minded that she interview my 

    son. She said a lot of the kids were 

    shy but he seemed to want to talk 

    about his piece. He DOES love to talk!

    His picture and quote was on the front

    page of the local newspaper the 

    following week!

     Playing on the playground while Ethan

              had baseball practice.

   3rd Quarter Awards Ceremony at LES

    Landen loves to visit his brother's       

                           school.

               Perfect Attendance!!

        Principal's List!! Go Ethan!!!

    "There's No Buddy Like a Brother"

Caught a sweet moment between these boys...Ethan reading a bedtime story to Landen. Makes my momma heart smile!

Big snow and Big Brothers to a _____?

Landen had a dentist appointment for a regular checkup and cleaning and I was afraid he would be nervous since he got a filling the last time we were there. Suprisingly though he enjoyed being there and seemed to not even think about our last visit.

We had a huge snow, I'm pretty sure it broke records for our area. So of course we had to get out and play in it...

We even hooked the inner tube up to the UTV and man was that fun! I, of course, didn't ride due to being pregnant but Inhad a blast watching everyone else!

Landen and I made our annual Valentine's cupcakes and he did the sprinkles ALL by himself this year.

His new favorite card game is "Go Fish" so we have been playing it A LOT! 

This month we finally got to find out if we will be welcoming a sweet little girl or boy...

We all found out together at our gender reveal party...

And the balloons were pink!!! So the boys will be having a little sister. Ethan is thrilled! Landen on the other hand is slowly warming up to the idea. He kind of had his heart set on a little brother but we have no doubt he'll fall in love as soon as baby girl arrives.

This morning Ethan was recognized during a ceremony at school for achieving distinguished in reading on his 

K-prep test and proficient in math! 

He makes us so proud!!

Landen's Recent Shenanigans...

So this little cutie lost a tooth on January 5th! He had barely been five for a week. He bit into an apple and out it came! I was so unprepared for this milestone as his older brother was at least a year older when he lost his first tooth.

 Landen was very concerned and teared up saying "I don't want to lose my toof!". He calmed down after we explained that it would come back in and he was thrilled about the tooth fairy coming to visit. We can now see two little white spots where the new tooth is coming in and he checks every single day to see if it's made any progress on its journey. Love him!

This boy is a riot! 

He torments our 11 month old lab, Axel, daily. And luckily we couldn't have chosen a better dog to take the aggravation from a rough and rowdy boy. Axel just takes it in stride and never even stops chewing on his bone or toys. Those two are best buds!

Last week after watching Curious George, Landen decided we should make a funny hat from a shoe box. Well we succeeded. That hat is over the top!

We spent one recent afternoon working on writing his name. He's making great progress!

And scrambled eggs are his new obsession. The kid can eat a dozen eggs in less than five days!! I told him he may turn into a chicken, ha! 

Landen Turns Five

So on Landen's actual birthday, we celebrated with a family dinner and cupcakes at Shogun (his absolute favorite restaurant)...

Landen loves Shogun so much that he practices being a hibachi chef at home. He has a hibachi grill set and he will bang his spatula on the grill and make the train noise like they do at Shogun, ha!

Since Landen's birthday is so close to Christmas (12/28) and everyone is still either celebrating with family or recovering, we waited a couple of weeks to have his party.

We celebrated at Chuck E. Cheese (in the middle of flu season might I add) with a TMNT themed party! Even though I was very wary of this party venue due to the fact that we get sick every single time we go there, the party turned out great! So great in fact, Landen has his heart set on the exact same party next year (let's hope he changes his mind...shhh!... fingers crossed). And I'm happy to report that luckily we didn't come down with any kind of sickness in the weeks following, yay!

Landen really enjoyed the games. This is his "Take it quick Mom, I'm busy!" half smile.

 

The bigger "boys" enjoyed the games too.

He LOVED his cake!

Chuck E. is his new BFF.

And his 5 year old's dreams were realized in the ticket blaster!

Oh, and he was thrilled about his presents too!!

Can't believe that this...

...sweet baby boy is now FIVE years old! What joy he has brought to us in those precious five years!!!! We love you Landen Tate!