Landon Loves Mama Too 4-10-06

Landon luvs Mama Too...

• There are numerous things that Landon has been saying that either melt our hearts into a puddle or send us into side-splitting laughter. Here are are few of his latest antics:

  Last Thursday my mom asked Landon where Dada was. Landon replied, "Work." She then asked him why he worked. Landon replied, "To make money." My mom, curious to know what Landon thought, then asked him why Dada has to make money. Landon answered with a big smile on his face, "So Mama and Landon can buy things!" Needless to say, everyone thought that was quite funny!

  The other night after Landons story was done and prayers said, I told him I love him like I do every night. Usually he responds with a simply one word answer, "Love!"However, this particular night (and everyone thereafter), he very sweetly said, "Landon loves Mama too." I was on the verge of tears hearing him say this. I knew he kind of understood the concept of love, but that night he clinched it. Wow, after two and a half years he finally told me he loved me and meant it...there is something extremely precious and pure and lovely about a child learning to love his parents and then extending that concept to other family members, friends and eventually to the Lord.

  Two nights ago Landon started saying his own prayers. This is what the first prayer consisted of: Dear Jesus, thank you for Grandma, Gigi, Brenn, Papa, Mama, Dada, Landon, and please bless the fishy movie (Finding Nemo) that Dada bought for Landon. I love you Jesus. Amen. I found it extremely adorable that he randomly remembered that Daddy bought him Finding Nemo, and then asked Jesus to bless it (guess we need to work on that concept ).

  Whenever we drive ANYWHERE now, Landon is a constant running commentary. This is what a drive with him sounds like: Mama, I saw a bird! Mama I saw water! Mama, I saw ducks! Mama, I saw a bus...a truck...a tractor...an airplane...continuously. He literally, never stops. And, you cannot just acknowledge him with a simple, Yeah! You have to repeat what he says so that he knows you were really listening. It was adorable at first...now, sometimes, I wish I could just tell him to sit quietly and stop talking, but I think there is some rule against that .

  This is what Landon sounds like when he counts (I really wish I knew how to put sound on here bc it is really cute how he says the numbers): non, two, threes, fours, fives, six, neven, eight, nine, ten, sixteen, eight, ten. He counts everything...and names the color of everything, even if his world is currently limited to only three colors: red, blue and green. Although, he surprised us the other day and correctly labeled something as brown as well. We are still working on white and black and yellow....

  In other news:

  I officially hate potty training. We have been at it for 7 weeks now...and accidents still occur somewhat often. I am still petrified of taking him out of the house in underwear (I did it yesterday and all three times he had accidents (although once was totally Jon's fault ). I really want to be done with this. I don't like it.

  For my birthday Jonathan finally let us get rid of the space station. The space station was our TV stand. He bought it when we first got married to surprise me with...I hated it from day one . So for our joint birthday gifts this year we bought a new one from Target (I LOVE THAT STORE!). It was quite affordable for how beautiful it is! I cannot tell you enough how much of a difference it has made in our home...our house finally feels like a real home and not an apartment. I love my husband! He spent four hours putting it together and did a wonderful job. Jonathan has always been so good at making my birthday special...even if we can't do anything big, he never fails to make it special.

  Well, I am off to do some much needed weeding around my house. We just moved in September so I am totally unsure of what is a plant and what is a weed and what can be cut back. Does anyone out there know if Russian Sage can be cut back?