I have so much to blog about with Thanksgiving and everything but first I have to blog about Landan. He just lost his first tooth on Sun. It's been loose for about a month and it was finally hanging by a thread so I told him pull and it fell out right in his hand. He wasn't even scared. He was so proud. (If you click on the picture it will be bigger and you can see the hole better.)

Here is his tooth. It was really small. I remember having bigger teeth as a kid.

Our only problem is that we had nowhere to put it for the tooth fairy to find it. So I had to make a tooth pillow. I'm not so great at sewing yet so it's a little rough around the edges...okay, a lot rough, but it works. In case you can't tell, it says tooth fairy on the right side.

Kevin said they always put their teeth in the living room for the tooth fairy but I thought you were supposed to put it under your pillow. What did you/ do you do with teeth for the tooth fairy?

Landan's Christmas Letter

I was feeling in the Christmas mood today so we put up the tree and some other decorations. Kevin couldn't do the outside ones becuase it's raining but hopefully he can soon. I decided this would be a good time to talk to Landan about our Christmas plans. You see, I have to work on Christmas Eve and Christmas this year so we were going to do Christmas the day after. But Landan is old enough this year to know when Christmas is so we can't just fool him. So we came up with a better solution and had to tell Santa about it so he would know the plan. Landan wrote a letter to Santa to explain it.
The letter says: "Dear Santa, for Christmas I want a lego star wars ship and a transformer please. Can you bring them on the 26th because my mommy works on the 25th. Thanks, Landan." That's all we had room for because he writes really big. Hopefully Santa gets the message and we can all have Christmas together.

Humiliating night

I just had the most humiliating night. Last night I was on my way home from work and I was on one of the major tollways when suddenly I blew a tire. So I had to pull over to the side of the road with cars whizzing past me at 75-80 mph and check the tire. It's definately flat.

As I'm calling Kevin to ask him what to do, a guy riding a motorcycle pulls up and asks if he can help. I freaked out for a second until I realized it was a cop. He asked if I had a spare. So I showed him where it was. Guess what...the spare was flat. Great. Now what am I supposed to do.

So while I'm calling my insurance company to get it towed somewhere, he's calling a local cop that has a car so it will be safer because it's dark outside and I'm on a very busy tollway. In the meantime I'm sitting outside my car next to a cop on the side of the road. Bet that looked really cool.

The lady on the phone was obviously not local. I told her I was on the Eastbound 45 tollway on the ramp to northbound 130 tollway. She says after about 5 minutes of being on hold, "I can see an interstate highway 45 but there is no 130. 45 runs straight through Houston." Honey, I'm not in Houston. I already told you I'm in Austin. It's a tollway, not a highway. So finally after explaining this about 3 times the cop gets on the phone and tells her the same thing. This time she gets it.

Luckily there is one place in Austin that is still open. Unfortunately it is only open until 9 pm. It's now 8 pm. The tow truck is going to take 30 min. to get there. By this time the car cop had gotten there. So now I'm standing outside my car with a motorcycle cop and a car cop. Now I feel like a felon. The first thing the guys asks is," How come you don't have a spare?" I do....it's flat. thanks for asking. Then while the motorcycle cop is telling the car cop what happened another car cop must have seen the commotion and decided to stop to see what was going on.

Now I feel like I'm on America's Most Wanted. Really? You need 3 cops to protect one girl with a flat tire? So I get in my car to wait for the tow truck and the other two cops leave so it's just me and the one car cop.

The tow truck gets there and now I realize that I have to sit in a truck with a complete stranger at 8:20 at night. Fun for me. Luckily he decided to get the conversation rolling, "So, you didn't have a spare tire to put on?" I sold it on the black market for an iPod. Thanks for asking. AT least he was a retired fire fighter so he was really nice and he took the tolls so we got to the tire place at 8:40.

Guess what the first thing they asked was. "Why don't you have a spare?" My dog ate it. Just fix the stupid tire! After he looks at the tire he tells me, "your other tires look just as bad. You need 3 new ones or you're going to have another blowout just like this one." Great. How much is that going to cost me. He showed me the other tires and he was right.

1 1/2 hours, 3 tires, and $250 dollars later I finally get home. It's now 10:00 at night and i have to be up at 5:20 to get ready for work in the morning. When i get home I find my son, who has been having stomach pains for the last week, is laying on the floor crying because his stomach hurts again. I spent the next half hour getting him settled down and back in bed. I was too tired to eat at this point so i just went to sleep.

Fun times.

Back to Baking

I've never been much of a cook. I can follow a recipe and make a decent meal but I'm not a big fan and I"m not that great. I can't invent anything at all. But I really like to bake. Since I've been so sick lately I haven't done much of anything (housework, laundry, cooking, etc.) The doctor just put me on a new acid reflux medication and I'm feeling much better now. I suddenly got this wild craving for ginger molasses cookies because I saw some at a store. So I decided to make some tonight. They are SO good! They're nice and soft and chewy. I'm not a bad baker but I"ve never made anything that turned out absolutely perfect like these did. I"m quite proud of myself. So proud I rewared myself with 6 cookies. I'd eat more but it's time for bed.

Don't they look divine?

Now I just have to figure out how to store them so they stay soft and don't get hard. Any suggestions?

My Handsome Boys

As I was getting the boys dressed for church yesterday I just noticed how handsome they were so I had to take pictures. Gavin has recently learned how to say cheese and he's got a new goofy grin that is so funny. He's now 18 mo. old so yesterday was his first day in nursery. He didn't last long. He stayed for about 10min. the first time, then they brought him to me. After the second hour I tried again. He only stayed for 5 min. that time. I guess I'm going to be spending some time in nursery for a few weeks until he gets the hang of it.


Landan got some new church clothes so he wanted to show them off too. This is the first time he's worn a real tie. Actually it's a zipper tie. He ended up fiddling with it and ruining it yesterday. It was brand new. Nice Landan.

Here's my big boy.

Hello folks. No,we have not fallen off the planet. There is a perfectly good explanation for the delay in posting. And that reason is...


I'm Pregnant!!

We are expecting our third child. I have been VERY sick lately, hence the no posts. I pretty much was sitting on the couch and trying not to throw up in between days I would have to go to work and try not to throw up. Right when I started getting sick to my stomach, I also got a really bad cold that ended up lasting for 4 weeks. I am now sick with another cold but I'm feeling not as bad. I am just now starting to feel not sick to my stomach anymore but I still have to be careful what and how much I eat.

We are due May 10. For those that don't know or remember, Gavin's birthday is May 4th. So they will be exactly 2 years apart. I don't have a date yet set for finding out the baby's gender but I do intend to find out.

Speaking of Gavin, he had his 18 mo. check up today. He is now:

22 lbs
30 3/4 in.

10%-25% for both. So he's right on track for growth. Everything else checks out great. He's a happy healthy little boy. we're still working with early intervention to get him talking. He babbles a ton but nothing you can really understand. It's all baby talk. Once in awhile he'll come out with something that might be a word but he doesnt' use any words consistently. He has started signing some things though. He can sign "all done", "more", and "bye bye". He says "na" when he wants something to eat sometimes.

Gavin loves to go outside. I knew it as soon as I knew he was a boy he would be the adventerous one. I was right. He loves to explore and I spend most of my day keeping him out of some trouble he's gotten into trying to discover new things. He's also very busy. He can climb on things and run and kick a ball and throw a ball. He's just a busy busy boy. It's hard to keep up with him.

He's also very sweet. His daddy taught him how to give kisses and he loves to do it. He's also started bonding a lot with daddy which is good because he's a big mama's boy and he's going to have to bond with daddy more when the baby comes. He's so fun to watch and he's always smiling. We love him som much!!

I'll post some pictures soon.

Landan's First Soccer Game

Here's some pictures from Landan's first soccer game. He's actually pretty good. Unfortunately he's on a team of 4 yr. olds because the cutoff for teams is Aug. 1st and his birthday is Aug. 7th. So unless I lie next year and put the wrong age down he's always going to be playing with kids a year younger than him. Becuase of this he's actually one of the better ones on his team. He made the first two goals in the game.

Here's their team picture. The one standing up with the long hair is actually a boy. There's only one girl on his team.

Landan's first goal.

He goes after the ball pretty well.