Landon and his crazy family

Well, we've had a busy week!! We started out the week going to the Omaha Children's Museum for their "Carefree Kids" night. We've gone to this before, but in case you don't know, it's for families with children that have compromised immune systems. They are closed every Monday for a thorough cleaning. Quarterly, they have these events for children that wouldn't be able to go under normal circumstances. It just creates a safe environment for the parents to bring them. Anyways, we took tons of pictures and Landon had so much fun! Here are some photos of our adventures that night:


This is one of the first things you see when you go into the museum...it's a wall of "hellos" and "goodbyes" in several different languages (even dog). :) For a child like Landon, this is a button-mashing dream! He really likes to mash buttons. :)


Landon's been really into fish and especially whales recently. We found this whale on one of the statues, and had to take a picture by it.


Above is a picture of more button mashing by Landon on their "light piano". You can't see it from this picture, but there is a large screen above him with different colored circles that light up when he pushes the button. He really likes this one too. Below, Landon is taking a moment to smell the flowers at the little house. He even took a picture with me on the little couch. After that, he played with the gears with dad.





Landon also has a thing for elevators. He's always found them interesting. He was pretty happy that he got to push the button to go upstairs and see the construction exhibit.





Landon is planning out his dream house...and below, he's going to get the tools he needs to build it:




Sorry Dad! I didn't mean to get you in the eye!


Going through the obstacle course...through the tunnel and across the balance beam (with a little help from Dad).




Last, but certainly not least, we got to play with the water fountain. Landon thought it was really funny to splash and gave himself a bird bath! We left with his sleeves and the front of his shirt soaking wet...but all that matters is that he had fun! ;)




The day after we went to the museum, Landon started getting kind of whiny and he started to not want to eat. Braydon also came down with some sort of bug where he lost his voice and sounded like the guy that does movie previews with the really deep voice. He thought it would be fun to prank call his parent's house and pretend to be the movie guy on the other end. He got his sister so good that she hung up on him cause she didn't recognize his voice! :)

Anyways, so both of my boys were sick. I ended up taking Landon to see the doctor cause he was telling us that his ear hurt and I was concerned. He would pull away from you and/or cry if you tried to touch it. It ended up that Landon had the start of an ear infection. The doctor (who wasn't our normal doc) put him on medicine and gave us some ear drops for pain. Ever since he's been on the medicine, Landon's been great. Braydon on the other hand is still fighting off whatever he has. He went to the doctor and she said it was some sort of virus and she couldn't really do anything for him but give him something to help him sleep. I was hoping not to get sick...

Lucky me...I did. I started to feel it on Friday and then Saturday I could barely get out of bed. I'm not sure if I caught what Braydon has, but I already have my voice back and Braydon doesn't. Plus, I can feel mine in my sinuses...maybe it's allergies.

So, all in all, we've had an exciting weekend. We were supposed to have company over tonight for Easter dinner, but cancelled yesterday cause we didn't want to get the babies sick...just in case.

I woke up feeling much better this morning, so we were able to have a fun Easter. Landon loves all of his new Easter toys. The Easter bunny brought him a soccer ball to kick around outside and he's already tried it out in the house. :) We dyed easter eggs this morning (I know...last minute), and Landon wanted to shove his hand in the cups...so I let him. :) He enjoyed himself. We did a little Easter egg hunt in the house, and even took a picture with the cute bunny ears my mom sent him...they didn't last very long after this:




I hope everyone had a Happy Easter!! The weather is starting to get nice, and Braydon and I are eager for Joe to come out and help us build our deck next month. We're just hoping it doesn't rain while he's here. We're also going to start getting some landscaping done sometime soon. I'll post pictures when that happens. We are obligated to get two trees for the yard and I've decided that I think I want a red maple for the backyard, but I'm not sure what to get for the front. I'm looking for any ideas....PLEASE! :) I don't want anything too big, or that's super stinky. If you have any ideas, please leave a comment. I'm at a loss. I found a picture of a red maple for you to see. I think it will look nice in the fall because our house is tan, so it'll really stand out.


Anyways, hopefully we have a more relaxing upcoming week.