Nothing Better
Life cannot get much better than an 80 degree, sunny June day with a beautiful breeze. My windows are open as well as our new screen door so the cross breeze is amazing. I just finished cutting up fresh strawberries for strawberry shortcake which we will have for dessert tonight. Landon is asleep after a fun morning of playing outside. I am just so content and I don't EVER want summer to end. It is kind of a shame that I wait all year for these short three months. Jonathan would love for us to move south where it is warmer more often throughout the year. Who knows...maybe one day I will give in because I sure do love this beautiful weather!
Landon has told me about ten times a day since I got home from Texas that he "loves me very much." Each time he does it, he usually pets my face as though I were a cat or hugs my legs. The actions and words together cannot help but melt my heart into a puddle. If only you could hear the way he says it...with such emotion! He is such a sensitive, loving little boy.
He is very into knowing "what happened?" He asks this question every time he sees, hears, or feels something out of sorts. The other day we were driving and he felt his hair (which was a little wet) and said, "Mommy, what happened to my hair?" And the other night Jonathan was in the basement and let out a loud, frustrated groan and Landon came RUNNING into the kitchen yelling, "Daddy, what happened?"
Our car is in the shop right now. Landon is obsessed with knowing why the car is broken, who broke it, when it will be fixed and who is fixing it. Seriously, if he asks me one more question about that thing I think I might lose my mind. I am so tired of repeating the whole matter, but he is just SO interested.
While we were gone to Texas and Landon was with his grandparents, he regressed a bit on the whole potty-training bit. Ok, a lot. But...after a few days of really pushing the issue I think we are on the rebound. It was really frustrating to have come so far only to go back so many steps...but thankfully, he is getting it much faster this time. I will say that I have had to resurrect some of my old tricks like, getting an animal so he can "show" it how to go potty, acting surprised and screaming loudly when potty comes out (this one works really well), dancing wildly around the house to any amount of poopy that should happen to make it into the toilet, and of course the m & m treat for poopy. He has become quite enamored with this whole process. Anytime any poop comes out he has to look at it, go more, look, go more, and finally say goodbye to it, waving all of the while as it disappear down the toilet. Kids are so funny.
One more...for those still reading this somewhat mundane post: Last night Jonathan took Landon out for pancakes. After eating a few bites of his pancakes and sausage, Landon took a big drink of milk and loudly exclaimed," Mmmmm, SO good!" Jonathan said that it was really cute. The other funny thing he is doing with food right now, is that he will try something that he says he doesn't like, chew it, make a decision and then loudly exclaim either "I DO like it or I DON'T like it." He somehow has a bit of a British accent when he talks. It really is adorable.
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