Christi's 26th

There hasn't been much going on lately. Work is work for me and Christi is very busy at school. She's teaching 2nd grade this year and so far she isn't liking it. The kids are getting better than they were, but she was unwillingly moved from 1st grade to 2nd grade over the summer. Her old principal liked to shuffle the teachers every year, and she got caught up in it this year. I think she is starting to like it better, but she loved teaching 1st grade and it was the only grade she had taught since she became a teacher in 2007.

Friday was Christi's 26th birthday. Landon and I made her a poster-sized birthday card and surprised her with it inside of her car that morning (I put it in there after she went to bed the night before). I think she liked it a lot. It had Landon's hand print in it, which was challenging to get him to be still while I painted his hand. For dinner, Christi chose to go to Longhorn's to eat. We had a large group with her parents, her brother Jason and his girl friend, Christ's grandmother (Nana), my grandparents, my mom and my sister. It was a fun dinner and of course we got them to sing to Christi. She doesn't like the attention, but the free deserts are always worth it! We had a Cold Stone ice cream cake and a cake Mrs. Debra had made back at home, so we shared the ice cream bowl they gave her. We fed some to Landon too (after taking the chocolate off of it.) It was his first time tasting ice cream and he LOVED it. After his 2nd bite he almost dove out of her arms trying to grab the bowl!

Landon eating ice cream for the 1st time

After dinner we went to Mrs. Debra's house to eat some cake and talk for a while. Christi seemed to have a great time on her birthday. It was good to have everyone in one place.

Other than that, there hasn't been much going on. Landon has a runny nose. We've been putting the Little Noses drops in his nose, which he hates. When his nose gets stuffy we have to use the booger sucker (I don't know what that thing is formally called, but that's what I call it) to get them out. He HATES that. We still haven't caught him on camera taking steps. Whenever you want to him to do it, he will sit down and crawl. When you are folding clothes or putting up dishes in the kitchen, he does it. Maybe we need a hidden camera in the living room to catch it. Once we get it, I'll share it.