24 September 2007
praise: both younger kids are sleeping soundly.
prayer: that i will be diligent to accomplish my necessary tasks.
playfulness: landon had the opportunity to bring corduroy the bear home from kindergarten to spend the weekend with us. here's the story that we wrote to send back with him.
Corduroy’s Adventures with Landon
When Landon took me
home, he was so excited that he climbed out of his Dad’s car, ran up the
sidewalk and steps into the house, and pulled me out of his backpack. I met his
Dad, his mom, his sister-Auburn, and his brother-Dalton right away. After
Landon changed into his play clothes, we played tag with Auburn
and Dalton. The
kids were laughing quit a bit as they were running back and forth.
Once tag was done,
Landon took me to see his bedroom and basement. There were a lot of toys in
both rooms. Landon decided I needed a bath, so he put me in a box and pretended
to clean me, and then he combed my fur to make me look sharp. I also met Auburn’s teddy bear, named
Purple Bear. I felt ready for my weekend at the Smith house.
Landon wanted to teach me to play Hi! Ho! Cheery-O, but his
brother and sister dumped all of the cherries on the table and floor. Landon’s
mom had to come help us find all of the cherries before we could play our game.
Thankfully, all of the cherries were found-some of them were hiding in funny
places. The game was a lot of fun, and Landon and I won!
After our game, we had
supper. Landon gave me a plate of food and some juice.
We then said good-bye to
Landon’s Dad, who was going to a men’s retreat, then the rest of us loaded up
into the family minivan and drove to McDonald’s to meet the Winnbergs. We were
able to play in a big playland with slides, ladders, and tunnels once we were
in the restaurant.
Landon’s mommy even bought us some apple pies to eat!!! We
had a lot of fun playing with Dylan, Megan and McKenzie. We played for about an
hour before Landon’s mom told us we had ANOTHER fun place to go. We packed up
our stuff, jumped in the van and off we went to Pearson Johnson’s house to play
outside and have something called s’mores. I wasn’t sure what that was-so I was
pretty interested in finding out. Once we arrived at the Johnson’s, Landon let
me rest on one of the outside chairs-I was thankful, because I was already
tired from running around so much with Landon. He’s a busy boy!
Landon was able
to play with many friends while he was there. They played ball, and tag, and
swung on a big tire swing. They climbed behind the garage, and pretended the
bats were light sabers, but best of all-they ate these sandwich things called
s’mores! The s’mores were made of graham crackers, chocolate and
marshmallows all smashed together. The sandwich was a gooey mess-I was glad
Landon wasn’t holding me. Landon played for a bit more, then we went back to his
house.
Since it was almost
bedtime when we went back to Landon’s house, Landon and his siblings put their
pajamas on and we watched Arthur and Spot to help us calm down after such a
busy night.
Landon’s mommy had one more special thing planned for the
evening-Auburn was allowed to spend the night in Landon’s room!!! Mommy was
glad that we didn’t stay up and talk after she tucked us in. I think she was
tired. We fell asleep quickly she said.
Wow! Landon wakes up
early! We were up at 7:15 am!
As soon as Landon woke up-he started asking his mom if he could finger-paint
and play play-doh. She told him that he needed to be patient and maybe we could
play a little bit later in the morning. Landon took me back into his bedroom
and found me a pair of red glasses to put on. They made everything look red!
Landon put me in his mommy’s laundry pile for a picture with my cool glasses
on.
While Landon’s mommy was
trying to finish some chores-she let us watch a few Saturday morning cartoons.
We watched Dora and Tom and Jerry. Landon laughed A LOT while he was watching
Tom and Jerry. His mom could even hear him in the basement! We had breakfast
after the shows were over.
Once breakfast was over-Landon
and I dressed up like SuperKid and SuperCorduroy!
It was a lot of fun and we
flew all over the house! Landon asked his mom about the finger-painting and
play-doh playing again. She agreed that he could finger-paint (since he climbed
up in the top of his closet to get it). I sat in Landon’s room so I wouldn’t
make a mess. After he was done making his pictures, he told me I had to take a
morning nap. Thankfully-he only made me nap for twenty minutes. I didn’t want
to miss anything! Landon played for a bit longer, then we had lunch and
clean-up time. After everything was picked up, Landon, Auburn,
and Dalton laid
down to rest and take naps. Landon never fell asleep-so we were able to talk
with each other for quite a while.
When everyone woke up,
Landon let me play in with Auburn
in her room for a while. She has a neat doll house in her room. Once I was done
playing with her, Landon taught me how to play a word matching game on his
computer!
It was great fun! After a while, Landon’s daddy came home! Everyone
was so excited to see him! He let us watch a football game with him! Landon’s
daddy cheered for a different team than Landon and I did. It was fun cheering
together. Landon and my team won!
After the game was over, Landon put me back in his room to
rest until bedtime. I wondered what Sunday was going to be like? Would it be as
busy as the past two days?
Sunday morning, we woke up,
played a little, watched Little People while everyone else was getting up, had
breakfast and readied ourselves for church. I was able to go to Landon’s Sunday
School class-which is in the same classroom as our Kindergarten class! I
thought that was neat. We learned about King Saul and how he was not kind to
David, even though David did not do anything wrong. After we went home, changed
our clothes and started eating lunch (I sat on the cabinet), Landon’s daddy
told us that King Saul was jealous of David, and he explained what jealous
meant. I never knew what jealous meant before that. It’s nice to learn new
words.
Shortly after lunch, Landon and his sister and brother took
naps. Landon took a really long nap this time. His mommy and daddy were glad
because he was going to go to big church with them later. When Landon woke up,
we had supper and put our church clothes back on. Once we were done eating, we
left the house and went to church. Landon took me to big people church, and he
was very good! His Dad and Mom said he was the best behaved while I was with
him that he had ever been!
While we were climbing in the
van after church, Landon’s Mommy told us that she had a secret to tell us once we
were home and had our jammies on. Landon, Auburn
and I were very curious what the secret was. Landon kept asking for mommy to
tell the secret before we arrived at the house-but he had to wait. I wanted to
know too, but I had to be patient with Landon. Once we went in the house, the
kids all put their pj’s on, had a snack, then climbed on the couch. I was
sitting with Landon. His Daddy and Mommy had their cameras out-it was a little
strange. I wondered why they wanted to have cameras out while they were telling
us a secret? Then, I knew…the secret was…Landon is going to have another baby brother or sister!!!
Oh, how exciting. Landon started
asking lots of questions. He found out that the baby is supposed to be born in
April. That’s only seven months away. He started running around the living room
singing “Happy celebration for the Baby!” over and over again. He even was
allowed to call both of his Grandma’s.
I think Landon was really excited. Finally
Landon calmed down enough that he was able to climb in bed. It was time for us
to sleep so that we would be ready for school today.
After we woke up, we played all morning. Landon ate some
lunch, put his school clothes on, and then put me in his backpack. He couldn’t
wait to tell all of you what fun things he did with me over the weekend. I
can’t wait to see what things I’ll do on my next adventure!
Leave a comment if you enjoyed the story!! (he, he) Also, check out the home page of daveandnic.com to see the video of when we told the kids.
nic @ 12:50 | comments(22) | Permanent link
19 September 2007
praise: we made it through the walkathon! landon never complained once!!! (at least that i heard.)
prayer: please pray that landon will not be cranky tomorrow. he is very wound up today-napped for only 40 minutes. i'm concerned that he will hit his low tomorrow in time for school.
playfulness: landon is downstairs singing "God is the goodest man i ever knew. i've never met Him but i know that He is..." the song went on to say something about satan and something booming-i couldn't hear all of it. you'll have to excuse his grammar-but i found it encouraging to hear him singing something with meaning and not just "fluff".
here's a funny from auburn that i had forgotten about. last week, i was cleaning her nose out and had some "stuff" on my finger. she got this real mischievous smile and said "are you going to eat it?" i wish i had it on video-it was much funnier to see her looking at me sideways with her "stinkerish" grin then to just read about it.
will hopefully be posting pics of landon from the walkathon tonight and some pics of him in his sparky vest.
nic @ 17:16 | comments(6) | Permanent link
18 September 2007
praise: all three kids slept all night AND slept in today! Wow-I got 6.5 hours of straight sleep!
prayer: tomorrow is the walkathon-please pray that Landon does not whine the entire time! =)
playfulness: speaking of walkathon-Landon is still in need of a few more sponsors. he is supposed to reach a goal of $130 dollars- and he is at $70 right now. if you are interested in helping him reach his goal, you can print out a form by following this link
http://www.icbschool.org/pdf/2007walkathon.pdf
filling out the form, and either sending it to us, the school or giving it to one of us. All donations are tax-deductible and are needed by October 19th. Thanks for enduring my commercial! i am walking with landon tomrrow. hopefully-i will be able to post some pictures of our walk tomorrow.
nic @ 10:29 | comments(8) | Permanent link
17 September 2007
praise: landon LOVES kindergarten.
prayer: please pray that my children start sleeping a little later than 6 am!
playfulness: okay, i know i haven't blogged funnies in a while...but to be honest-i have a ton of other things that need to be done. tonight though-i didn't want to forget this one. it's not really a funny-just a moment to brag on my son and his "math" skills. you may not find this amazing-but he always amazes me with what he figures out on his own. here's the conversation.
mom, what's five twos? what's two plus two?
what is two plus two, landon?
four
yep
okay, what's five two's?
well, let's figure it out? two plus two is four-what is 2 more than that?
(he changes "gears" here and looses me for a second) what's two fours, plus two?
what is it?
ten
that's right
that's what i thought!!! we have ten hands in our house!!!!!! (end of conversation)
i guess what amazed me was the method he used to figure it out. he can't formally count by 2's, but somehow his mind was able to group our hands in math facts that he knows-to figure out what he doesn't-so i'm assuming he did something like this in his head (2+2)+(2+2)+2=10. the end comment shocked me-i had no idea he was figuring out how many hands we had in the house. the whole situation made me laugh and smile.
nic @ 21:44 | comments(11) | Permanent link
