It’s hard to believe we are less than a week away from Landon’s first birthday. It seems like just yesterday we were at the hospital sending out hourly Sterncast updates via my cell phone. This weekend we are heading to Upstate NY to celebrate Landon’s First Birthday as well as my 30th. I don’t know what’s more crazy. The fact that I am halfway to 60, or that Landon is already a year old. Well if you ask me 30 is the new 23, or at least that is how I feel. We’ve got lots planned for next weekend so rather then telling you all about what we are GOING to do, I’ll wait a week and tell you all about it later.
One exciting piece of news we would like to share with everyone is we bought a house. YAY!!! We had been actively looking for about 7 months with no luck until we found this awesome Cape with 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and an awesome yard in Harleysville, PA. I think Grandma Marcia and Grampa Larry will be happy to hear we bought a house in a town named after their bikes. I guess this means you have no choice but to hop on those Harley’s and drive out to see us more often. 
We don’t have any pictures to share yet, but as soon as we close we’ll be sure to share them with you guys. We are closing on June 18th, so we don’t have to wait too much longer.
For now we do have some videos that we’ve taken over the past month or so that we’d like to show you. This first video is Landon playing basketball with an awesome gift Grandma Terry got him. He loves playing basketball and who wouldn’t standing nearly a foot above the rim? I haven’t seen anyone attack a basket like Landon since Shaq brought down the hoop against the Nets back in the mid ’90s. Hey Wizards, it’s not too late for you to draft Landon with the #1 overall pick next month.
As you’ve seen from previous posts and pictures on Facebook Landon LOVES the park. I think he would sleep there if we let him. His new “trick” at the park is to crawl up the stairs and then dart down the slide head first. I’m glad he perfected this with his mother before I saw him do it for the first time. Yes that’s right, I’m the paranoid parent.
If the whole basketball thing doesn’t work out, which I honestly can’t see any reason why it wouldn’t, he might give Barry Bonds a run for his money as the next Home Run Champ. The only obstacle in his way might be a recliner…. confused? I guess you will just have to watch the video to understand what I am talking about.
One of the things we love most about Landon is he’s always finding ways to have fun. He is becoming more active everyday, and finding ways to play with toys we never thought possible. This morning he found out how fun it is to play with a piece of fabric and a plastic ball.
Well I’m hoping this update makes up for the amount of time since our last post. We’ll be sure to update everyone next week with some pictures and videos from the birthday weekend.
Love,
Mike, Melissa and Landon.
YAY! I love them all…. I think it is time to schedule a visit… I’m missing too much!
Hey Mike, how does it feel that Landon is already more athletic, has more baskets, and hits than you already?