Our Mac Pac: 20 Months...

Landon is 20 months today. For those of you like us, the math starts getting too confusing for the quick count. So…that makes him a year and 8 months or a year and three quarters or four months until 2 years (a crazy thought to us) or how we think of it, a little over a year and half. That probably made it all that more confusing, but oh well we guess you’ll read on. Landon’s going through so many changes lately. The biggest change is his speech. His vocabulary has grown so much, although much of it is tough to understand unless whatever he’s trying to say is right in front of him. The other day he was saying something to John and was near our kitchen table but John had no idea what he was saying. Landon was very adamant and knew what he was talking about. Finally Landon was able to show Daddy the “sticker” and John realized it did make sense what Landon was saying. Bare with us kid, we are trying our hardest as we know you are too!

Kefir smile

The potty continues to go really well too. We do have to continue to ask him to go, but we still get 2-3 hour stretches of dry diaper and we don't have to ask him every 15 minutes if he wants to go. This has made our laundering of his cloth diapers difficult as he doesn’t use as many per day, but we can’t go too long between washes otherwise they get really stinky. Don’t worry, we’d rather have him using the potty than worrying about laundry. He also loves riding in his play car (yes the pink one from past post) down the driveway on his own and down the street. He’s getting quite adventurous with that. Landon has also spent up to an hour playing with our BBQ and using John’s coals and smoking chips. He has become skilled at using the spatula flipper and tongs on his own to stack things. It’s pretty cute how long he can spend doing that. He’s also developed quite the personality. He can get quite the wild hair that at times makes Shani want to snap (John’s so much more patient). There was one of those days a couple weeks ago before church and the paper/activity that came home with Landon from Sunday School was talking about how God created each of these little miracles for us and to remember how special they are. God knew it was the perfect day for that lesson! We are having a blast with our son and love watching him develop more and more each day. We still can’t believe how much growth there has been in such a short period of time.

Landon BBQing

Landon taking pictures on his own. His "cheeeeese" smile!

October has been a really busy month for us thus far and we are only half-way through. Although you wouldn’t guess it is October with our 90 degree days we are having. Where is fall? We love fall!

We took Landon to his first pumpkin patch. We didn’t go last year because he still seemed a little young. He played with pumpkins some up at Apple Hill but we didn’t take him to a “real” pumpkin patch until this year. We had such a great time and definitely hope to make another trip before the end of the month. There was a train ride which is always a big hit for Landon. He’s really into “choo-choos” right now. The hayride was also a lot of fun for him. They had a petting zoo and slides, all the things kids love. Landon had fun walking around finding the pumpkin he wanted. He tried to pick up a couple but couldn’t quite manage the size. It was still really cute to watch. We look forward to carving some at the end of the month. We’ll see what he thinks of cleaning out the guts. Our guess is he’ll love it!

Train at Bishop's

Landon loves petting the animals

Landon loves driving cars/tractors too!

Yes John is ready to catch the pumpkin

What a big boy!

So many pumpkins to pick from

Trying to lift one

Shani and Landon went to the Sac Zoo with Liz and Sophia on one of their days off. It's always fun to watch the kids play together since they are only a couple months apart. Plus Shani loves catching up with Liz since she doesn't get to see her much with their opposite work schedules and the 45 minutes between us. The kids loved running around the zoo although we don't think they cared much about the animals. They seemed to actually have more fun when we let them run around the park near our cars. Guess it's always the simple things with the young ones.

The most they cared about the animals

Landon and Sophia

Last weekend we ran in a 5K Mud Run with our great friends Karin and Zach. There was a lot of convincing to get John to sign up for it; thankfully we got a deal on Groupon. We eventually talked him into with the “beer tent” that waited at the end (turns out it was Coors Light - Just says it was false advertising). The night before the race John said he bet after the race we’d wish we’d paid 60 bucks to not run. Shani was worried he was going to be right. The furthest we’d been running was 2 miles and we’ve been so out of shape. In the end we had an absolute blast! We even plan on doing it again sometime. The 3 miles was no biggy at all (the obstacles broke up the run) and the obstacles and mud were actually a lot of fun. The boys got pretty banged up during the slides, actually drawing blood! We finished pretty close to the front of our wave time which was not too shabby. We felt it by the end but definitely doable. It definitely was no Tough Mudder but we consider it an accomplishment anyway!