Yo Ho Ho!

Have you ever been at the store and you see a child wearing a crazy outfit when it is nowhere near Halloween time? You've probably thought to yourself, "Why does that mother allow her child to go out dressed in such a manner?" Well, my friends, I am that mother and Landon is that child. He is often going around dressed as a pirate or as Woody. Some days it's just not worth the fight to make him change out of his dress up clothes. It's also the only way that he is guaranteed to keep clothing on during the day. If he's not dressed up in a costume, then he is most likely running around without any clothing on. I figure it's better to have him going to the store in a costume rather than him attempting to take his pants off in the middle of the store aisle because they are "bothering" him, which he has tried to do on more than one occasion!

Shopping as a pirate- that's just how we roll.

Aargh!

Here are some of the pirate pictures as promised! Landon goes around dressed as a pirate almost daily. You know, when he's not dressed as a Wonder Pet or as Super Why....he sure does love to dress up! I'm just glad that Super Why consists of a blue polo shirt, khaki pants, and boat shoes- all of which are readily available in Landon's closet. A cape is the only thing needed to dress like a Wonder Pet. My quick thinking mom was able to sew him one up in two seconds flat one day. I'm hoping after Halloween this year that I will be able to pick up a bunch of costumes for cheap so that Landon can play dress up more often. His pirate one is getting kind of worn out! 

Pirates and Pooh Shirts

There hasn't been much blogging on my part lately. I'll work on getting some new posts up soon. It's just been proving difficult as of lately. Here's a quick Landon update for everyone to hold you over. Landon loves the Disney show "Jake and the Neverland Pirates". In fact, he loves pirates so much that he is often dressing in his pirate costume from last year while watching it. I know this is kind of pointless without pictures...I promise those are coming soon! When he's not going around dressed as a pirate he can be found wearing his 18 month Winnie the Pooh shirt. It's rather short as you can imagine, but otherwise fits rather well. I was going through some old clothes of his and he spotted the Pooh shirt. He became so excited and started saying, "My Pooh shirt! My Pooh shirt! Thank you Mommy for finding it! My Pooh shirt!" He even started hugging it and asked to put it on. I guess that is one shirt that won't be going anywhere anytime soon. I may have to save it to put onto a stuffed bear of some sort when he completely outgrows it. Ever since that day he has had it on many times while we are at home. I have also been able to slowly implement the rule of him having to take at least one bite of everything on his plate. It works most of the time. He put a carrot in his mouth the other day, but immediately spit it out. At least it made it to his mouth! I even ate some broccoli myself while we were out at dinner last week in hopes of Landon trying some as well. Landon has also mastered his ABC's for the most part. He still has trouble identifying the letters "N" and "K" at times, but other wise he knows all of his letters. Every now and then he will confuse "M" and "W", but I'm sure that is normal for a three year old. Now we have to work on the correct order of the ABC song. We will be starting on number recognition next week. Landon knows a few numbers when he sees them. Basically the number 1-5 he is able to point out correctly every time. He can count up to twenty, or eleventeen as Landon says, but can't identify all of the numbers on paper just yet. We're getting there though.

Ahoy Matey!

We had a great time this Halloween. We all went as pirates. Landon made the cutest little pirate. Landon was able to go trick-or-treating twice this year. Landon was so cute this year. Last year he didn't know what was going on. This year Landon knew that if he took his bucket to the doors then he would receive candy. He also learned how to say "trick or treat" and he always said "thank you" once he was given candy without being prompted. A few people took pictures of us, which was a little weird. I guess they couldn't resist the cuteness that is Landon. Who can blame them?!

 The eye patch last for 0.02 seconds. As soon as this picture was snapped Landon pulled it off and it broke.

 Landon tasting his candy.

 Being Landon- collecting acorns rather than candy. He wanted to feed them to Piglet.

The pumpkin. It looked a lot better the day before. By the time I took this pic the mouth was no longer visible. All of the teeth had sunken in. He's now a toothless pirate!