Huge milestone!

Just 9 days away from turning 18 months, Jalen pooped and peed on the potty today! I am still in shocked because potty training was not even on our agenda for a couple more months. This morning Jalen went and banged on the bathroom door. He has actually started doing this last week. This time I opened the bathroom door and off he went to sit on the potty. I then took off his diaper and he sat right back down. Just moments later, he pooped! I was so excited! I thought maybe this was a fluke, but then after lunch he went back to pound on bathroom door. I put him on the potty and he peed! So maybe Jalen wants to learn and we should pay more attention to his cues. I am so proud of him. He was so excided and did his happy stomp dance. :-)

Happy Halloween!

Hope everyone had a safe and happy halloween. We did Alvin and the Chipmunks this year. They were too cute! Trick or treating was a success! It only took 2 houses before they "got it" and figured it out that each house had candy to pass out. Jalen was so excited! He loved holding his little bucket and knocking on doors. Landon even said "teet teet" for trick or treat. We ended the night with TONS of candy! Jordan, mommy, and daddy has lots of goodies to eat! Here are some pictures from today.

Landon was not a fan of the hay.My little Alvin.Jalen running up to the house to get candy.Landon found a sucker.Jalen trying to get the sucker out.

Childrens Museum, Zoo Boo, and Halloween sneak peek OH MY!

Since we got the Children's Museum membership last month, we have been there already 4 times and going again this Friday with some friends from MOPS. The boys love it there and learn something new each visit!

Landon playing with the sand.
Jalen likes to pour the sand and he even got a taste of it too. There was a cup in their sand box, so he filled it up with sand thinking "I wonder if this stuff is any good." The look on his face was priceless when he came walking towards me. (No, I would not have let him tried sand, if I was standing next to him watching him do this.)

Jordan was being attacked by T-Rex! Their dinosaur exhibit is pretty neat!

Jordan and Landon. Jalen was sleeping. :-)

My 3 awesome boys!

The next day we went to the Zoo for their Zoo Boo. Landon was getting upset here because Jalen was holding his hand to get him down. He wanted to stay.


Boo!

Landon with the elephants and ducks.

Jordan being silly!

He loved being a drama boy with all his expressions.

Their favorite part...petting zoo!





Sneak peek FAIL! :-) Jordan forgot his brown pants, Landon was tired and restless, and Jalen saw a kitty that he wanted to play with. :-) Hopefully Halloween we can get better pictures of my Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Sick :-(

The stomach bug traveled around the house. From talking to friends and other MOPS moms, we believe the source came from our MOPS meeting. It was that night when all of our kids started to throw up in the middle of the night. The first night was Jalen, then Landon, next night was me, and day number 5 was Jeremy. It was so sudden and both boys felt fine too. No fever and was happy before bed and after. They woke up upset because I think they were mad at the fact they were woken up by the bug. This was the first time that the boys caught something and got sick. :-(

The other day, Jalen was not looking so good. He was running a low grade fever and was just not himself. He started pulling at his ears, so right then we thought ear infection. We got both of them checked out at the pedi and it turns out it was just teething. They did get their flu shots so that is a BIG check! They go back to Dr. in 2 weeks for their 18 month well care check up.

I should have lots of pics from this weekend. We are going to the Childrens Museum, pumpkin patch, zoo boo, and a birthday party. Maybe even a Halloween preview of costumes.

This day 2 years ago...

Jeremy and I found out we were expecting! We were so excited and ready to start the journey of having a baby. We later found out in January, that we were not expecting a baby, but BABIES! :-)

Here is Jalen and Landon a year ago.


Here they are today. What a difference two years make!

New haircut

It was time for haircut number 2 for Jalen. Landon still has not had his first. We took Jalen to the barber shop this time. Daddy was getting his done, so we went ahead and had Jalen's done too.

Before...

After...

17 months!

Time needs to slow down! These months are going too fast for me. I can not believe we are already in October. When the days go by, they are making my kids gets older. It is hard to believe that they are a month shy from 18 months. We are almost to the half way point of having TWO two year olds! Their 16th month was exciting and they have learned so much.

Landon- He is the TALKER! He loves to pretend he is on the phone and has conversations. They even end with a "bye bye" at the end. He loves to read books too. He is always sitting there content with a book talking and pointing. His vocabulary has grown with a few new words too. His recent new words from the last few months are... bye bye, night night, all gone, eye, butt, Jackson (dog, but more like Jack ehn), boo, juju (for aunt julie), and a couple more. There are words that he says too that I have no idea what they mean, but I am sure I will soon.

Jalen- He is does more expressive and point than talk with words. He babbles a lot and will point and try to say words to communicate. He is really good at following directions. Except when mommy tells him NO. He only listens to daddy for that. He can associate about 40 words and knows what it means.

They are both showing wanting to be more independent. The other day, they both insisted to put on their own shoes. This took a while and eventually mommy had to help. :-) They are wanting to use the fork/spoon more often too. Jalen has 12 teeth and both top and bottom molars are in. Landon has 10 teeth and only top molars are in. The bottoms are almost through.

I want to start weaning off the pacifier, but it is going to take some commitment from daddy. We will see how it goes. I want to start slow and only offer for naps and bedtime.

Jordan starts his football playoffs tonight!

Pictures to come soon! :-)

The Children's Museum

Today my mom and I took Jalen and Landon to the Children's Museum for the first time. They LOVED it! My mom bought us a membership and we will be going there a lot. It is a really nice museum and one of the best in the country! There was an online deal for the membership for 50% off and it was hard to say no. I wanted to get them a membership so it was perfect timing. I took LOTS of pictures. We only did 3 exhibits. They were worn out after two hours. I am glad we have the membership to go back whenever and visit the exhibits we were not able to see. They have 5 floors!

Landon's favorite place was the Playscape area. This is designed for toddlers and babies. His favorite part was the water! It was the first thing he ran to and the last! We tried to get him to play with the other stuff, but it lasted for 2 minutes before he was finding his way back to the water. He loved splashing!

Jalen enjoyed the balls and ducks. He kept saying (waahh wahh for the quack quack noise)
"Can we have this in my room, mom?"
He was in heaven!

Landon looking over the bird house at the water exhibit. Can you guess where he went after going down the slide to get down? Yup, the water!

Where is Jalen?

They both enjoyed this thing. Jalen decided to crawl in the basket for a ride.

This was one of the few things that kept Landon away from the water. He was in love! "Mom this is easy to work! Can I drive a real one?"

"What do you want to build with these blocks behind us bro?"

Having a tea party with the Bears.


Landon enjoyed these globe balls in the mirror fun house.


Future Indy 500 drivers!

Time for a carousel ride.



They enjoyed these little bouncer ride toys in front of the museum store.



Can't wait to take the boys again! Next time, big brother Jordan will go too!

Fights

The brotherly love fights have begun in our house! There used to be very little upsets when one takes the others pacifier or cup. Now, there is shoving and grabbing when one takes anothers toy. I know this is completely normal for their age and me as a parent needs to teach them that we play nice. Yesterday Jalen chased Landon around the living room for a cheez it. It is funny to watch when Landon has food, he knows what Jalen is after so he runs and zig zags around the living room and playroom. Jalen usually wins and that is when Landon gets mad.

Here are some pictures from my phone. Sorry it's a bad pic and we were in dim lighting.

This is when Jalen nonchalantly sat in front of Landon on the "cool car."


So Landon got off and then got back in front of Jalen. This made Jalen upset and they tried to push one another off.


Today they were fighting over the tent being closed or not. Landon zipped the ball tent closed. Jalen would then unzip the tent so it would be open. This made Landon VERY upset because he wanted it closed, but Jalen wanted it open. It is hard NOT to laugh, but the mommy in me had to break up the fight. I think Landon has an OCD with things being shut. Doors, gates, tents, and anything else that needs a top or shut.