Landon at 2 1/2

Time goes by so fast. My little baby boy is growing up so much quicker than I want him to! How can he already be two and a half?? I know that I will blink and he will be 5. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time to different points in his life. Like when he was just learning how to laugh, or walk, or say his first words. I don't want to miss a thing. I don't want to ever be too busy that those sweet moments pass me by because I did something that I wanted to do. I want to be faithful to raise him in the way that the Lord would want me to teaching him things of the Lord. I pray these verses are lived out in our home:

"You shall therefore impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. You shall teach them to your sons talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up" (Deut. 11:19,20).

Since time does go by so fast and I seem to forget things so easily, I wanted to post things about Landon that I want to remember from when he was 2 1/2...

He sees the world in letters and shapes. He often will make something with his legos and say, "It's a diving board" or "it's a cross!" When we were walking somewhere the benches were in a zig-zag shape and he said, "it's a Z!" He'll magnet his trains together and say, "it's an octagon" or "it's a kite" (four in the shape of a diamond then the others as the tail). The other day he put his train track in a big "S" shape and said, "it's an S!" It's so fun to see the world through his eyes. His favorite letter to spot is "L" and he'll say, "It's L for Landon!"




He drew this on daddy's iPod touch (which is sadly no longer working) back in July and said, "It's an A!" Sure looked like an A to me too :)



He is fascinated by the story of David and Goliath. He loves to swing something around and pretend to sling a stone at Olivia and have us make her fall over. He laughs and laughs.

He has started to tell us a series of events. A few weeks ago we all went to the YMCA and left Landon and Olivia at the childcare place there. On the way home he started saying how a boy hit him and he would say, "he hit me like this, BOOM!" (while hitting his head). He told us everything that happened (see movie below). It was pretty funny. He has had a hitting problem since about a year old, although he has gotten SO much better. I was glad when he said he didn't hit the boy back.



He is very honest and I really appreciate this about him. When he does something wrong he will tell us. We always ask him to tell us what he did wrong before we disciple him and he always is honest and says, "because I didn't pick up my trains," or "because I threw my bobby (his drink)," or "because I said, 'AHH'" etc... He'll even offer information without me asking, like after BSF one day, "I hit David" (poor David!).

He is really into puzzles right now. We got a couple of those 24 piece puzzles and he does pretty good with them. He needs help, but he's getting to where he can put a part of it together on his own. He really likes to put together "Sally" on his Cars puzzle :)

He loves playing with his trains and legos. He will sit really well and play for a long time which is nice when I need to get something done!

He loves his baby sister. He is always concerned about her well-being. He will talk to her when she cries saying, "It's ok Olivia, it's ok, IT'S OK!!! (if the first few "it's ok" don't work and her crying continues, he starts to yell this...). He'll hold her hand in the car and will get upset if her can't find it. He brings her toys. I just love watching them together.

Our little Landon brings us so much joy and I am so thankful that the Lord has entrusted us with such a gift!