Daddy's Pumpkin
Mommy's pumpkin
We tried for a family shot, this is the best we got. Landon looking at the pumpkins, and me pinning Jackson down trying to get him to smile.
Here are the spider cupcakes Jackson "helped" me make
All lit up on the porch.
And, last picture, I promise, are Halloween activity today. I dyed the noodles orange for the whole Halloween effect, and after I realized that orange probably wasn't the best color choice. It's now a bag of Mac and Cheese!
We played a version of the newlywed game. But all the questions were about hair. Like, what is the name of your wife's hairdresser?, What kind of shampoo does she use?, Does your husband wash his hair last in the shower or first? etc. It turned out really funny. Then we blind folded all the women and lined up the guys with one arm extended. They had to feel all their arms and guess which one was their husbands. Then we switched and did the men. Most of the people were in our ward, so it just made it funny! I haven't come that close to peeing my pants since our laughing fits in high school! It was a such a fun party and I am so glad we did it, I really needed that fun adult interaction. I wanted to get a group picture of everyone with their crazy hair, but I didn't, so here is a snapshot of eating the "hairy" food!
Saturday Ken went to meet my parents in Brigham to get the kids, while I went to a baptism for a little girl in the ward. It was so good to see them when they got home! It was a refreshing break, but man do I miss my bubba's while they are away. Then Saturday was the Trunk-or-Treat. This was Jackson first experience with the whole "trick-or-treating", He was just in awe that all these people were giving him candy!
Checking out the loot!
So all that partying is over for the weekend, but it continues this week. I think we have something going on everyday. If we are this busy at Halloween, I can only imagine what the month of December is going to bring!
Aren't they just the cutest things!
Pin the nose on the pumpkin. With his teacher Miss Lacy.
He could totally see.
And here is a little video of his class.
After browsing through the patch we came home with four perfect little pumpkins!
Watching the tractors.
Jackson showing me his pumpkin. I am surprised we didn't bring home a cracked in half pumpkin. He is so careful and slow to pick it up, but when he is done, he's done. Drop. I guess good thing is it doesn't have too far to fall to the ground.
This is a witch flying through the air. She is headed toward the roof of a building that is set up like an airport.
This is the airport director.
They have wagons and barns and stuff set up for cute picture taking so we did just that!
My friend that used to live down the street moved to South Jordan :( Her and her two kids met us there. Thanks for a fun day!
And I thought I would post some pics of the house all dressed for fall.
My baby turned one a couple weeks ago. I put together a video of his first year. I thought I would share it. It is about 12 minutes. At the bottom of my blog page is the esnips where you can stop that music before watching this one.
Landon Wyatt Stark was born Sept. 25, 2006. He weighed 7 lbs. 3 oz. and was 20 in. It was so surreal to add a another baby boy to our family. As some of you know, at Landon's 6 month appointment he weighed in at 10 lbs. 10 oz. Not only was he not gaining weight but he had lost a pound since his 4 month appointment. The doctor had some blood work done to see if we could find out why he was not gaining weight. The results were definately not what we wanted to hear. His platelets were low, his red blood cell count was low, basically he wasn't getting the food he needed and his body was feeding off of itself. Imagine the feeling of finding out your little one is malnutritioned. The questions came..."How much does he eat? How often does he eat? Does he seem hungry all the time?, etc." Of course he seemed completely normal to me. We knew he was small but never would have thought anything was really wrong. He seemed to eat, not as well as Jackson, but every child is different right? Might be too much information, but he was only having one bowel movement a week, which can be normal for some babies, and a sign something is wrong for others. Taking that into consideration his doctor thought he may have something called Hirschsprung's Disease. http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/hirschsprungs_ez/index.htm
So of course I come home and research what I can online. He seems to fit all the criteria, but of course we don't know anything for sure. The doctor schedules him to have a test at Primary Children's to find out if this is indeed what he has. I am trying to remember everything, I really wish I would have wrote some of this down. So, I am thinking, well if he does have this, we will know what is wrong and we can fix it. On second hand if he does have this he will have to have surgery. So, Kenny, Landon and I are off to Primary Children's. Let me just say, he was such a trooper through all of this the past two weeks. All the blood tests, all the poking and prodding. After this test we head home to wait and hear from the doctor. Somehow excited that all this unknown is about to come to an end. But no, the test is inconclusive. He may have it, he may not. So we are back at square one. So we are told to just keep pumping him full of food and watch his bowel movements. We took him for weight checks every two weeks. Over time he starting gaining weight. We were so happy with all his progress, but were still wondering what could have caused him to drop so low.
And now at one year he is 18 lbs. 3 oz. and finally on the growth chart at 3%! To this day, we don't know why he suddenly stopped growing and not getting the nutrion he needed, but I do know that I love my sweet baby sooo much and I am so glad he chose to be a part of our family. I Love You Lando! Here are some pictures from his 1st Birthday Party.
The Cake
He loved his cake! He kept grabbing the dots. He was very upset when I took it away. I think he would have eaten the whole thing, if I would have let him.
Birthday Prince
