Vacation

Some of our vacation highlights:

Riding Grandpa's 4 wheeler.

Grandpa giving Mason a haircut. Mason wanted "all gone" like his Grandpa

Meghan trying to catch a tan.

Landon ready for bedtime.....A hour later..."Peek a Boo" Landon is still playing...

Buddy is Back.....

If you have read our blog before and you remember the "buddy" posts you will probably know what I am talking about. For those who are new at this, I will provide a short explanation. (you can also put buddy in the search box above to see the post)

In the past we would go up to Grandma and Grandpa Nylunds cabin. There is a little chipmunk the kids have called buddy and they feed him peanuts. Buddy is so familiar with the peanuts he will come right up your leg and take them out of your hand to eat them.

This year was no different. We started our drive up to Finland on August 10th and planned on staying until August 13th.

Grandma, Mason, Meghan, Landon, Tucker and I were all taking the hike up together.

We made it up and got settled in to find Buddy waiting for his peanuts. The kids and I grabbed some nuts and headed out to feed Buddy.

At times Buddy will take the nuts to anther location where you can hear him cracking them open. He comes back for more with a mouth stuffed full of the nuts wanting more.

This year Mom was feeding buddy peanuts from in her hand:

Buddy must have thought her finger was his peanut and took a little nibble.

It scared Mom to death and she

tried to pull her hand back and buddy went flying.... He is OK. He shook it off pretty quickly. However, all Mom could think about is getting to the hospital to get a rabies shot ..where was the nearest hospital? :)

(don't worry- nobody was hurt during this episode)

The conclusion to this story and lesson learned:

Always feed buddy so he is unable to bite your peanut finger!!!

Next time Buddy..........I will be bringing steel gloves to feed you.

County Fair

Friday Evening Grandma Nylund came down to spend time with us and we had a quick dinner and headed to the local parade at 630pm. The kids collected all of their own candy.... Two ice cream buckets FULL of candy. I can't imagine what the bigger kids got since they are quicker and didn't turn around to bring their candy to the bucket once piece at a time.After that, we tried out the county fair... I knew it was late but didn't know how well the kids would last. I was surprised....they did well. It's just the listening skills that need improvement. Meghan on her Monkey.

Mason and Meghan on the spaceship.

On the roller coaster.

Meghan on her monkey again....

Mason, Landon and Grandma on the giraffe and horsey.

Termite T-Ball

Mason gets ready for the fast ball.

This is our green team. Meghan is the only girl.

Meghan and Daddy do a little warming up.

Last week was our first week of T-Ball and Meghan wanted nothing to do with it except go sit on the bleachers with the big girls... Mason, on the other hand. LOVED and can't wait to go back.

Landon continued........

Why is it that when its time to go to bed. Landon starts to show off his abilities....

Landon

This Friday Landon will be 18 months old. He is still not walking on his own and stands up for about 2 seconds per day, maybe 1-2 days per week. Today we were playing with beach balls downstairs. He would stand up and grab the ball and try to throw it really high like the big kids. During this process I was handing him the ball back after he threw it. He took 1 step. I know it's not much but it's allot for a Mommy who has been waiting forever for him to start walking. As allot of you know we have been working with Therapists since Landon was about 2-3 months old. He was being treated for torticollis when the therapist noticed he was starting to get very behind on almost all of his development stages. It was and still is to early to know if Landon has anything that is permanent and we didn't want to have to put him through sedation for them to run a bunch of tests that may not even show anything because he was to young. Right now they are working on Language and Motor development. Tammy, Our therapist tells us Landon is way ahead of his group in Cognitive development. Landon still does not say Mommy or Daddy or can put a word with a action or express how he is feeling. But he has a great way of letting us know when and what he needs. :) Along with his 1st step (remember.. Only 1 step) he has repeated a couple words this weekend with us. "round and round" and "no, no" We only hope this is a start to a great thing for us and for him.