Vacation and Stuff

Here is the latest family shot (more of these later):

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We made our annual visit to Pymatuning Lake in Pennsylvania and had a nice relaxing vacation. Unfortunately Vicki could not go and now Landon might not want her on any more vacations. Dad might have been a little lax on the rules and let him eat ice cream. Which it turns out he LOVES, but probably shouldn't have!

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Samples:

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From 2009_PennVacation

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From 2009_PennVacation

We also had some family photos done (which is where the top photo came from). We took them at Jefferson City in the area right around the capitol building.

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Samples:

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From 2009_FamilyPhotos

Of course there are the random pics from the last posting.
Friend Kate:

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Landon helping make cookies, his face did not stay this clean for long. He is using the "Vicki" style of cooking.

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Landon with his "Ear Glasses":

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That is all for now ...

Buzz

Landon has a habit of twirling his hair around his finger, pulling on it and repeating when he's tired. He eventually twirled a bald spot on his head, so we had to do something about it. Introducing buzzed Landon.

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From 3to4yrs

Vicki's sister, Julie, got married and we had a little vacation down in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

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From 3to4yrs

From 3to4yrs

Landon also completed his first complete nine holes of golf. He only played for about 5 but didn't mind the rest of the round and had fun the whole time.

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That gets me pretty much caught up, time to appreciate some air conditioning!

Stay Cool.

FORE!!

I have a lot of stuff to post, so I might break this up into two posts ... I know you think that means one post followed by a several month break. You may be right.

The first event that I have in store was our trip to Kentucky for the Rolex. Despite the re-occurrence of our vacation jinx (car got broken into), the trip was pretty fun. Here is us killing some time while waiting for my parents to meet us after the break in.

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From 3to4yrs

We also had fun at the camp ground once we got there.

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From 3to4yrs

Another major event this spring has been Landon's first golf outing on a real golf course (if you can count Rolla's course as a real course).

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From 3to4yrs

He might have outlasted his mom if we could have played longer.

I'll leave you with super cool shot of Landon (just an unavoidable natural expression of my genetic legacy).

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Till next time (when ever that might be).
Take care.

Easter

We had a big Easter this year. Landon got to take part in two hunts and an egg dying party.

My favorite picture of the whole thing:

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The first egg hunt was at day care. It was very rainy that day so they had the egg hunt in a relatively small play room with a dozen or so kids ... Vicki described it as chaos.

Day Care Egg Hunt Video

The next event was the egg dying party with a couple of his friends. Landon and Vicki were the only ones to make big messes (no surprises there). The kids made it through 4 1/2 of five dozen eggs which I thought was quite an accomplishment.

Egg Dying Video

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From 2009_Easters

It was supposed to rain on Sunday (and it did) so we had our egg hunt party on a perfect Saturday. The day included two egg hunts (one real eggs and one plastic plastic eggs), a barbecue, some little Easter ducks, playing on an old boat and squirt guns (supplied by me, not sure if that was approved).

Video of Egg Hunt
Video of Baby Ducks (take note of the duck's change in pitch when Landon tries to hold it)

This is a great shot of Landon and his glamorous egg hunting friends:

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From 2009_Easters

From 2009_Easters

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From 2009_Easters

The result was one tired boy (taken at 6:30 pm, slept in till 7:00 am).

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Taken Care,
The Callaways

3 is the new 2

I vowed to get the Birthday stuff out before the month was over and it looks like I'm going to make it ... which is a surprise to all (including me). So lets get this out of the way right at the top, the new 3 year old big boy:

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The party was a success. Landon picked out a tractor theme for his party and Vicki made a killer tractor cake:

Cake Video

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From 3to4yrs

In order to play with all the tractors Vicki made some big tractor play bins with potato flakes for "dirt":

Tractor Bins Video

Landon's friend Ava has a birthday 3 days after him, so the next weekend we got to live the party life again. Here are some shots from that big time Shrek throw down:

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From 3to4yrs

Thats it for now ... but I have more that don't fit the birthday theme so there might be another posting in the near future.

Bye.

Almost Time

Its almost time to create a new category in our picasa album of Landon: 3-4 yrs. But for now I get to add a few more to the 2-3 yrs. Just adding the 4 in the name of the folder makes it sound way too old for my boy.

Landon was not feeling well this week so I got to stay home with him a few days and get some play time in.

He found some glasses that we got at a white elephant party and wore them around for an afternoon.

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He continued his accessory theme yesterday with his own personal hat party:

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And for so unknown reason liked watching TV in a box:

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Thats all for now ... its pretty slim chance that I'll get another update out before his birthday, so next time you see him on here he'll be 3!!

Winter Fun

Hello,

I light of recent events I am going to skip the post I had planned and beat my fellow cousin blogger by actually having picture and video of Landon playing in the snow. YES! I win for once.

Here are some shots of what was planned to be a snowman but ended up being a giant herseys kiss:

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and some video of Landon helping build this architectural marvel ... pile of snow.

Landon Snow Piling

Of course what kind of snow day would it be with out some sledding.

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From 2to3yrs

And some sledding highlights:

Sledding

Here are the results of a boy wading uphill through knee high snow all morning.

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Attack of the nap!

Christmas and Stuff

Hello,

This is really early for me but I have some pictures ready (even pictures of Christmas). First is a picture I meant to post last time of Landon the artist. He wanted to paint and when asked what he was going to paint he said "an elephant". I'm not sure this rendition is not a significant amount of luck, but it looks pretty darn close to an elephant (well maybe a woolly mammoth). He generally can't quite draw a triangle when asked to.

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From 2to3yrs

Here is our family Christmas shot, one of the few Landon would cooperate with during the Christmas season. For some reason (which I find much more amusing that his mother), Landon will not participate in Christmas photo shoots.

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This vacation was probably Landons favorite of his entire life. He absolutely loved playing all day everyday with his cousins. Here is an example of him running around like a lunatic.

Cousin Wrestling

I have more photos, but it will look like I am better at this if I wait and do another post next week, since my sister complained that I don't post enough.

Enjoy.