10 months old!

Well, once again I went two weeks between postings. I guess I didn't find much interesting to post about. We have mostly just been hanging around the house the last two weeks. We went to Kearney last Friday (April 4). Landen was very good and slept in the car both ways. Then Sunday night, Elliot broke his glasses, so we went to McCook on Monday to order a new pair. He went back on Friday to pick them up. We played poker in Beaver City that night. Friday was also Landen's 10 month birthday. The first two pictures are our attempts to get a picture in the spot on the couch to show how much Landen has grown. He didn't want to cooperate. The next picture is where Elliot found Landen on Saturday afternoon. I was running errands and Elliot was watching TV and pretty soon he heard Landen when he got stuck behind the toy bucket. The last picture above is Landen's new facial expression. He says "OOOOO" when he makes the face. He will also imitate you if you do it first. He is so much fun right now!





OK, before you read any farther, read Landen's shirt in this picture (he doesn't look happy because he was tired) .....Yes that's right! We found out about 3 weeks ago. The baby is due November 22. This was a little bit of a surprise, but we had talked before we knew I was pregnant and we agreed that we were ready for another baby. We are happy that they will be so close in age (17 months) because they will likely be friends as well as siblings, plus Landen won't remember not having a sibling and hopefully won't be jealous.

Is it summer yet?

Landen was fascinated by this new toy Daddy made. It is a peel for the brick oven that Elliot is going to build.










Landen was having some fun sitting in his toy bucket.






I'm going to start off with a little bit of sad news. Last week the man who married my Grandma Becker (technically my Step-Grandpa) passed away. His funeral was on Friday. Something good did come out of this, though. We got to see some relatives that we hadn't seen since Christmas and some that we hadn't seen since before Christmas. When we showed up to the funeral home, we found that Landen and Sutton were wearing the same sweater vest (both of them wore them for Easter as well). It was pretty funny because the people who didn't know us at the funeral kept asking if there were two of them because they had seen them both at different times or if they were twins. You can see why everyone thought they were twins in the pictures because they are the same size even though Sutton is 5 weeks older than Landen. (If you are struggling to tell which one is Landen, he is on the right.) Landen is getting more adventurous. He likes to crawl around under the kitchen table, in the pantry and, well, just about anywhere he can squeeze himself. He has also figured out how to open containers with a snap on lid. He first did it Sunday night at my parents' house. He was playing with the bottle of lotion after his bath and he used his bottom teeth to pry the lid open. We'd shut the lid and he'd open it again and it became a game. Well, on Tuesday he was in the kitchen and he spotted the can of wagon wheels and got it down and proceeded to pull the lid off. I watched him do it just to see if he could get the lid off and I took the can away before he could dump them everywhere. He also knows how to open the seat of his John Deere tractor now. (See last picture) He loves to push his tractor while making the tractor sound (see the video and turn up the sound, it's kind of dark, but you can tell what is going on).



Nothing else interesting has been going on. We are definitely ready for some warmer weather so we can go for walks. Landen really enjoys getting outside on the occasional warm day. It's raining today so it doesn't look like we will be going for any walks today...but I'll take the rain!