Here I Am!

The other day I was walking around calling for Landon. I couldn't find him anywhere. I knew that he couldn't get out of the front door and the back yard is completely fenced in with no exit. He had to be in the house somewhere, but I couldn't find him. After calling out for him several times I hear Landon say, "Here I am. Boy in chair room." I could not figure out what he was talking about by "chair room" so I followed his little voice. Sure enough I found Landon in the chair room. He was underneath the dining room chair that has a floor length chair cover. He was playing with his animal toys under the chair. When I said "found you" Landon wouldn't come out, but he did show me what he was doing.

I think I may make a tent out of the dining chairs and we'll have a picnic lunch sometime this week. The simple ways that Landon can have fun amazes me. How quickly we forget the simple ways that fun can be had once we become adults. Speaking of fun, Landon's toys drive me nuts. I can't stand seeing toys in the living room. Just because I am a mom does not mean that my life has to revolve around toys. There is no need to step on a toy or to sit on a toy or even to have a living room being cluttered with toys. I think I finally found a good balance between toys and a clutter free living room. 

Target had these storage cubes on sale one week. I picked one up along with four colored bins. The bins are in cream and purple of course. Landon knows that all of his living room toys must fit into these four bins. Whatever toys do not fit must be placed in his room. He's allowed to bring his toys out into the living room, but at the end of play time he knows the toys that do not fit in the bins must go back into his room. It's an amazingly simple solution to all of the toy clutter. My life has been much easier since coming across this toy solution.

It's a Jungle in Here!

Landon has been obsessed with animals from day one it seems. Walmart use to carry plastic jungle animals for $1. Every time we went into Walmart, Landon would receive a new animal. It only cost us $1 and it made Landon smile from ear to ear. The $1 purchase also allowed us to bribe Landon to behave through the store as well, which I am sure all the parents out there would say that a well behaved child in Walmart is priceless! I always thought those jungle animals were the best $1 ever spent. Unfortunately, Walmart no longer carries these animals. They have been replaced with dinosaurs. Landon likes dinosaurs, but he loves animals. The dinosaurs never come back home with us because they don't catch his attention like the animals. I think every time we go into Walmart now Landon looks for the jungle animals and can never find them. As soon as we step through the sliding doors he makes a bee line for the toy department and the area where they use to sell these jungle animals.

While Walmart carried the jungle animals, Landon obtained quite the collection. A few of these animals (a tiger,  lion, and giraffe) have been going with Landon everywhere this week. He won't put them down! Every morning Landon wakes up and goes straight to his toy bin to dig out his animals. I then go to the bathroom and by the time I come back out he has lined his animals up. They are in a different spot every day.

Landon even enjoys meal time with his animals.

These next two pictures are back from February. I can't believe how much Landon has grown and changed in just 4 months. Although a hair cut and growth of an inch or two have not changed his animal obsession!

Finders Keepers

Today we spent the afternoon at the Finders Keepers sale at the Morocco Shrine Center. If you have little ones to buy for, it is well worth the trip. Landon made out like a bandit. He came home with 9 pairs of pants/shorts, 3 overalls, 12 tops, 2 sweater vests, a rocking horse, a ball popper toy, a set of Winnie the Pooh books, and a Winnie the Pooh jack-in-the-box. All of that for under $100! Thanks Mom for everything that you bought for Landon. I couldn't believe all of the stuff that they had for sale. Landon is set for the summer. Tomorrow we will be headed out to Hannah Park for a relaxing afternoon and Sunday we will be headed down to St. Augustine. It will be a very busy weekend, but I am looking forward to all of the outings. Here is a picture of all of the loot that Landon brought home:

I also have to share the way that Landon napped today. He was sleeping while sitting up in the corner of his crib. It was the cutest thing. Too bad the nap was short lived...he only napped for 15 minutes!