What can Landon do??

Our days have been filled with sunshine the past few days. We've been trying to take advantage of it by taking Landon outside to enjoy the sunshine. He doesn't seem to want to go outside, but once you get him out there he doesn't want to come back in! We've been taking walks in the stroller and by foot, drawing with sidewalk chalk, "painting" with water on the driveway, and have just been moseying around checking out the scenery. We've even gotten to where we don't mind the grass! It's shocking...I know. Tonight was pretty windy, but we went outside and had a "picnic" in the garage on our deck furniture and Landon enjoyed himself.

We went to get Landon weighed today. He's now at 31 lbs. 11 oz. I'm pretty sure the last time he was weighed, a month ago, he was 31 lbs. 14 oz. We've also had the ear infection within that time where he wasn't really eating anything for almost a week or so. Since then, he's gotten his appetite back. The nurse didn't seem too worried about a couple of ounces, and I'm pretty sure that Landon will gain all of that back and then some by the next time we go there.

We also went to see Penny today and worked on riding a tricycle. We've been working on trying to get him to push the pedals, but he doesn't have much interest in that. He just likes to look at the scenery as we pull him along. Penny says that she isn't too worried about him not doing it yet cause she won't consider him lagging on that skill till he's over the age of three....phew!! Thank goodness! We're just excited that he likes to get on it. He didn't even like sitting on it a few months ago.

Landon has gained a number of skills in the past few weeks. He's been doing pretty good going up the stairs with someone holding one of his hands. He uses the wall or the banister to help himself up and your hand just for stability. I don't even have to help pull him up onto the next step, he's doing that on his own. He's walking in the grass, like I was saying. He gets a little wobbly at times, but has learned to correct himself. He's also walking in our garage and out to the driveway which goes into a slight slope. Normally, he would get wobbly and possibly fall, but he's learned how to handle that on his own too.

Landon's also learned quite a bit as far as his speech goes the past week or two. He's learned how to say off and on (in sign language), hurt (also in sign language), and he's been finding ways to communicate what he means to us. He's also catching on to what Ashley has been working on with him. It's pretty much like playing a constant game of charades. :) He's starting to use his hand to make a "B" sound, by pushing his bottom lip up to create some closure with his top lip. He's been walking around saying, "ba-ba-ba". It's nice to see him catch onto that. Ashley also worked on counting with Landon. He plays with little plastic bears with her that are different colors. Each bear has a corresponding cup. Ashley was counting out the cups in front of Landon and she would pause to see if he would do the next number. He kept saying something similar to what the vowel sound would be for each number! We were pretty impressed! He makes me so proud! Every week I feel like he does something new that he wasn't doing before. He's turned into such a fun, loving little man! :)