25 March 2005
praise: landon and auburn are better.
prayer: dave's mom is traveling up today for the weekend. please pray for safety.
playfulness: i found auburn standing in her crib on tuesday. today she was walking around in it. she can now pull herself up to a standing position in about 5 seconds.
landon had the stomach flu this week. his fever got up to 104. nasty stuff.
more stuff happened, but i don't remember it all.
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21 March 2005
praise: auburn's seventh tooth came in on sunday. it was a productive weekend in regards to her teeth.
prayer: dave's mom may come up for the weekend. please pray that she can borrow a vehicle to make the trip.
playfulness: auburn was playing with the cd's in the tower this morning. landon's comment, "she's playing with the abcd's!"
this evening, landon was playing with his palm leaf that he made in sunday school yesterday when he informed us that he could play ping-pong with it.
yesterday, landon fell down the stairs at my mom's (thankfully, he was not hurt). while i was holding him after the accident, he said to me between wimpers "i was not being careful." i almost laughed aloud and my brother had to leave the room.
tonight, auburn gave dave the "pouty lip about to break into sobs" look, and his tender side gave in. she got a "holdy" out of it. very cute.
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19 March 2005
praise: ryan tyler's cancer has been classified as stage 3 instead of stage 4 as previously suspected. please continue to pray for they tylers.
prayer: dave is in ohio this weekend. pray for a safe return tomorrow afternoon.
playfulness: this week has been an eventful one. landon is potty training and doing fairly well and auburn is growing up.
landon's newest impersonations come from the american girl holiday movie. he has declared himself as samantha (?!?), i'm cornelia, auburn is "pridget" (bridget) and dave is uncle gard.
today, landon was playing with a raggedy ann doll (don't tell dave) and he decided that she needed to be fed, mommy style. (again, don't tell dave!) =)
auburn started to wave yesterday. she also included the sound "bababa" with the wave. very cute!
today, her other top front tooth came through.
auburn has discovered that she loves peach jelly.
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14 March 2005
prayer: my friend, shannon, and her husband, ryan, just found out that he has non-hodgkins lymphoma (cancer). they believe it to be in stage 4. he begins chemo tomorrow. they have two boys, aiden-3 and garret-1. shannon is expecting their third child, due to arrive early fall.
praise: we found out that a decent sized check we received (which we believed to be in error), was actually correct. pastor's message on prayer was excellent last night.
playfulness: landon made a birdie in the potty this morning. we were all elated! (see the feb. 9 post if confused about this terminology)
landon has switched from calling everybody by names from monsters, inc. to calling everyone by names from chitty-chitty bang-bang. landon is mr. potts, dave is the king, i'm jeremy (gender confusion, i guess), and auburn is jemima.
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11 March 2005
praise: auburn is doing much better this evening.
prayer: dave and nic are mildly sick and landon is starting to run a fever.
playfulness: auburn had the stomach flu yesterday and early today. her fever reached 102.7 yesterday afternoon. last night, i was handing auburn to dave while he was sitting on the couch. just as i turned her around and extended my arms, she placed a load of white liquid in his lap. i was quite proud of him, he laughed.
this morning, i was talking to my sister, michelle (who is in florida with her family right now). landon said to me "mommy, i want to go to florida." i explained to him that it would cost a lot of money to go down to florida and that we didn't have a lot right now. he promptly said "i have some money!" he then went downstairs and brought up some of his play money and commented, "here's some money, now we can go to florida!"
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7 March 2005
playfulness continued: after supper i asked dave if he wanted some d-e-s-s-e-r-t (spelled it), and then proceeded to spell out some choices. after i opened the freezer, landon said, "i want some e-r-s!"
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7 March 2005
praise: auburn is healthy.
prayer: auburn had shots today and has been somewhat cranky.
playfulness: landon earned the right to watch something today-so he chose the "snake show" (a.k.a. swiss family robinson). before it comes on, there is an animated short of donald duck. landon calls him "mcdonald."
auburn is 30 inches long and weighs 20lbs. 13 3/4 oz. she is the same length that landon was at 9 months, but weighs about 2 1/2 lbs. less than he did. she's almost off the charts on height, but in the 75th percentile in weight.
one of auburn's favorite pasttimes is to take the cd's off of our cd tower. she's quite funny when she can't reach the next one up.
nic @ 14:33 | comments(42) | Permanent link
4 March 2005
playfulness continued: for all you moms out there that read this blog, we have had a breakthrough in home remedies here at lunch today. i gave landon some kool-aid (the first in a long time). as soon as he took a drink, he smiled and said "it makes me feel better, it made all the ow-wees go away!"
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4 March 2005
praise: auburn is taking a nap! mom smith has her van back.
prayer: i'm still pretty tired-beginning to wonder if i'm coming down with the flu or something.
playfulness: last night, auburn and i went grocery shopping. on the way home, the men gave me a call. i asked landon if he had his jammies on yet. according to dave, when i asked that, landon looked down and then said "not yet." i guess you just have to imagine him looking down at his clothes to check. the mental picture is very cute.
well, i have much to do...more later.
ps. dave added a new unseen feature to our blogs. if you make a comment, i will receive an e-mail so that i will find out about it quickly. (instead of having to go and check the comments every so often.)
nic @ 09:57 | comments(10) | Permanent link
1 March 2005
playfulness continued: landon walked into the kitchen this morning, looked at the fridge, put the "a" and the "p" next to each other, then sounded them out together. dave and i have both worked on "a" and "t" before, but never "a" and "p".
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1 March 2005
praise: landon is feeling much better.
prayer: i'm very tired.
playfulness: i know this is early in the morning to be blogging, but landon had a funny this morning that i need to blog before i forget.
he came into our room asking where his alphabet puzzle was at. i told him it was behind the chair with his other toys. he went and looked, but couldn't find it. so, he came back in and asked if i would get up and get it. i felt like being a stinker, so i told him to ask his father. he ran around to the other side of the bed, and said "daddy, can mommy get up and get my puzzle?" even though i wasn't thrilled with his question, i had to laugh. he came back to my side and told me that daddy said i could get up and find his puzzle for him.
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