I forgot.

Landon J, is pretty dang close to walking! He's playing peek-a-boo on the other side of my laptop as I write this, and just tears across objects, like the coffee table, he'll circle it over and over. He's got his balance down, now the stepping thing is next. I think alot of his illnesses have slowed his development down, but I'm glad he's catching up! First it was words, now this! He's taken about 2 steps, so we'll see..


It's only a while before he gets up and sprints across teh room to answer his sisters cell phone....


AGH!! Too soon!!

Best Show EVER!

So during the superbowl, ads were airing for a show called "Uncdercover Boss", it's on CBS on Sunday nights. It makes CEO's of major companies, go under cover to the stores/restaurants or whatever type of business it is.

Some of the bosses are the nicest people! Oh my gosh! I will be DVR'ing this show every week!

Watch it!! http://www.cbs.com/primetime/undercover_boss/

It has been done.

Landon was in his highchair, stuffed full of breakfast goodness. I asked him "Do you want to get out?" and he shook his head firmly, NO! I thought, he probably doesn't have a clue as to what his head shake is, let alone that it means something. I go to get him out and he starts screaming at me. So I put him back down, and he's fine.

Ladies and gentlemen we have a concept of yes and no! Who'da thought?! Apparently 16.5 months is the month for understanding, this is good!

Eyes!

So, I had pink eye a few weeks ago. Umm, that was NOT fun. Having to always tell myself, don't touch your eye!! Here's a picture.



ICKY!

Blogging is best

As of yesterday, I am Facebook free! A few people really hit a nerve, and I was feeling genuinely picked on. And with that said, I reminded myself that I am almost 29 years old, I am NOT in high school anymore and I don't want to deal with it. A shame because I kept my account for the past 3 years, to see family members photos and to catch up with them, as well as my siblings, being that I'm not down and around the corner. I'm definately a good hour drive away.

So, this is the best way to keep up on what I'm doing. I have a twitter, I just don't ever log into it. I guess I'm not an avid tweeter as some famous people are.

Here's the latest Daniels happenings!

Landon is 16.5 mos, and he has a little walker that he LOOOOOOVES to push around, you can tell he feels like a big boy when he gets some serious speed. He says "Whee-o!" for wheel, he's a big fan of anything with wheels and cars. TOTAL BOY! We pretty much give him all table food, and we've taken him off of his iron, and oddly, he seems to be doing better that he's not on it 2 times a day. He's still a bit yellow, but we're used to it, it's when he's orange, is when we freak out. He's got 10 teeth now! Molars are coming in and we hear alot more loud noises from him biting things during dinner - too funny!

Leena is my little bike rider! YAY! Took 8 years but she can totally do it. She could do it a looong time ago, but she let her fear of falling and getting hurt, hold her back for a long time. She's rockin' in school, and is at middle school grade reading levels. GO LEENA! She's an avid bookworm. I got her the huge book of all the Chronicles of Narnia Series compiled into one, and I think she's on the last chapter of the lion, witch and the wardrobe. She's really good. She's also a math whiz we're discovering. Her parent teacher confrence was a few days ago, and the teacher suggested we start her on times tables because math just comes easy for her, like reading. (and it's a bonus that she happens to love science) and she sent a little paper home with leena with a website Leena can log into and practice times tables. We did that, after I hand wrote some out on paper as more harder subtraction with the borrowing and carrying, and she got it all! She missed only one! She's definately doing good in school. I'm proud of her, she's a hard worker and it shows in her work and her grades too.

Jeff, still busy recruiting. It seems like he's been home alot later this past few weeks. But, he does have to enlist one person a month and you'd be surprised at how much work just that 1 can take. He is trying to gain weight, so he's been running a few more miles each week and comes home and drinks a giant protein shake...ICK! But, I'm trying to talk him into taking a day off, the kids miss him you can tell. Landon won't want to take a nap, and so I go to lay him down and he yelles "DADADADADA!" Sorry bud, he's not here! So, hopefully we can get a good family day in to help the kiddies out with some quality time. And I know Jeff has earned a day off too, so it's much needed for everyone. OH! And Jeff starts school this month, he's a fw hours away from his associated, now I just have to talk him into getting his bachelors :)

Me, I got www.heididanielsphotography.com up and running. That was ALOT of work! It may not look like it, but it was micro details in everything. WHEW! Hopefully with that up and running, I can increase my clientel. Cross my fingers! I've been really tired lately, perhaps I need to go to bed at 8pm and get 12 hours of sleep? I'm not sure, but I think I see a light at the end of the tunnel. The kids and the chores of keeping a house clean, keep me busy as it is. But, I'll take a clean house over a messy one.

Little words

Landons vocabulary is sure picking up!

He now says "uh-oh", but usually is said "uh uh uh ooooooh", cracks us up! He also says "eat", usually he YELLS it at the top of his lungs.
ANd he can say "owie!" he crawled down the driveway yesterday with no socks on. In typical Landon fashion, he was unphased by pain. Makes me wonder! We brought him in to clean and bandage him up and we pointed to his tops of his newly scuffed up feet and said "Landon! Do you have an owie? Ouch!" and he goes "OW!!" We laughed and said good job, Landon! He then clapped for us praising him. He's too cute! Anytime we say "YAY!" or "Good job!" he immediately claps.

Love those little mile stones!

As many know, he was fairly ill about a week and a half ago, two weeks ago. We took him to Mary Bridge Hospital in Tacoma, and they wouldn't run the tests on him that we needed. UGH!!! A few days lter, his tempreture hadn't gone down, it had gone UP if anything. I called my good friend who's a nurse at Childrens Hospital in Seattle. She reccomended taking him in, so we can get the right tests run. Long story short, he had a 103.8 fever and had we not given him motrin, he would've been unable to move. For a while we didn't give it to him and he just was a sick little snuggle bug. Poor baby! Anyway, since he was about 12ms or so, his skin has been yellow. We thumbed through photos to find a date because we're regularly taking photos so finding a time frame as to when it started, wasn't hard, luckily. They told us he had high liver enzymes back in Dec. And so at Childrens, the doctor was puzzled...He came back with 2 more other doctors and had them examine Landon. They asked me a series of questions, and if he ate alot of carrots or squash, things that turn skin orange due to alot of beta carotene. This was not the case. They put an IV in his little hand, and stuck him with a catheter for some more tests. So we're waiting on those results to figure out what's going on. It was farily worry some for us though, he's always going 100mph, so when he crashes like that, it's almost scary because he was hot hot hot, and NOT himself.

He's back to tearing things apart, yelling and screaming and spending hours demplishing his toy box :)

It's 2010!

Wow, I've slacked on this blog just trying to keep up the other ones, oh goodness!

He're an updating for the past 5 weeks!


Christmas- was busy and fun! We woke up in the morning and opened the presents we had here athome, and then hit the road to my parents house where my dad, my brother, siste d bother in law were patiently waiting on us. We had alot of fun seeing everyone!
A few days later, my older sister rolled into town with her niece and boyfriend, Alex. We were glad they were able to make it down to my brother Cody's wedding on the 29th. (He got married to a nice girl named Katie Diehl) Cody's reception was fun and eventful. We wish them the best!

New Years- Jeff and I hadn't gone out solo in MONTHS. I think this was the first night out in 5 or 6 months? Date night is horribly rare at our house. But, it's ok, we don't need it all the time. My girlfriends from high school all stay in touch, and so we always try to get togehter once every few months. Only group of friends I know that do that still. Espcially now that everyones home from grad school and what not. I love them, they're all my besties, so it's always fun to get the husbands/fiancees/boyfriends together and go out. We went to a chinese restaurant and got literally about 14 entrees. It was an INSANE amount of food! 9 take home boxes! We went to my gf Andreas house afterwards and hung out and played pool and laid low, much needed! My mom and dad were nice enough to watch the kids. We left at 1am and went home to my moms, slept there and got up in the morning and left. Ahhhh.

Leena- she's taken off at riding her bike. She really had a huge phobia there for a LONG time. But she can go almost everywhere, yay! She's got a diorama due for school, so that should be a fun little task that we can go together :)

Landon- is a silent ninja! He can climb up the stairs way too fast, and fall down them equally as fast! ACK! He also is learning more wods too! He only says them once though. I'm sure this will change! He has said: "eat", "Pee boo!" (Peek a boo)"ring", "more" and "hand", he's so fun! You can see his little gears just turning when you try to get him to talk! He is really attached to both parents. He cries if one of us leaves. Awww. He loves to play with legos and loves anything with music. Too cute!

We all went to Idaho about 2 weeks ago. We had originally wanted to go after christmas, but with my dad in town (and he's not here often) and my sister and niece in town, and Cody's wedding, I talked Jeff into delaying it 2 weeks. So we packed up the car and drove to Idaho! Unfortunately, we did have a major delay. We left on a Wed night, and only about 2 hours into the drive heading over Snoqualmie Pass, the visibility was pretty poor and Jeff hit a pot hole at over 70mph and the front tire burst. I'm glad there was no snow! Long story short, when we had the tires rotated last, they putthe lugnuts on waaaay too tight and NO ONE could get the off, literally 4 people tried and no success. So we ended up having to get towed 20 miles to the closest town of Cle Elum, WA. And even with that, the one shop in town was closed at 2am. So we rented a hotel room across the street and stayed there for the night and no one got any sleep! It was HORRIBLE! Landon hardly slept at all. Anyway, we luckily got someone to get the lugnuts off using brute strength, and we happily hit the road. So, a full day later, we arrive in PoDunk, Jerome =) We stayed through the MLK weekend, and it was anohter long 12 hour drive back.All in all, it was good to see family! I got to take my sister in laws photos (seen here at http://heididanielsphoto.blogspot.com) and some other ones of Jeffs cousin, Keri and her 2 sweet little kids.

Whew!