Busy!

It's been a busy couple of weeks lately.  I have been swamped with school work, working on the house, took a trip to Steamboat for my birthday weekend and had a Landon's first group play-date (at our house none-the-less). And through most of that Landon has been teething terribly.
I even took Landon in to the doctor because after 3 weeks of "teething" I was concerned that he had something else going on.  I was mostly concerned with his ears as he was pulling at one fairly repeatedly, was vomiting (projectile at times), and I noticed his balance was not as good as it used to be (falling down more often).  His ears and nose looked normal and after a thorough hour long exam by the doc and her 2 med students, Landon's condition was given the official fancy title of "teething syndrome."  Turns out he was textbook for true "teething"- vomiting from the extra secretions, loss of appetite, pain, irritability, excessive mucous and snot (resulting in possible sinus pressure discomfort), ear pain, swelling, mild fever, change in sleeping patterns, cries when layed down, cries when eats, cries when yawns, cries when cries....
he was great when we were AT the doctors (of course) and had a rare moment of normal happy Landon throught the past weeks, but in general he was pretty miserable up until this past Sunday when he finally seemed to be more like himself again. Thank goodness because I was at my breaking point with 4 am wake ups followed by a day full of unhappy non-napping baby who decided to go through seperation anxiety phase all at the same time.

Landon has been busy with his own agenda, of pushing those top teeth through and then learning how to actually push himself around and turn his dinosaur.  He's also been working on standing and earlier I found him sitting at his keyboard one second then standing at it the next.  He's also been making a lot of noises lately that sound like words.  So far I've heard things that sound like kitty kat, dog, that, duck, night night, what, this, and baby (other than the mama, dada, nana he's been saying).  Nothing really consistent enough yet to call it a first word.

Oh, and he's been waving hi a lot as well as signing for more and all done.

In other big news, we have decided to make a trip to Texas to see Jason!   He was talking about coming home for a quick visit over 4th of July weekend but I decided I just can't wait that long so I am going to pull of a slight miracle and get my school work for this unit done a week early and hit the road next thursday.  We booked a hotel, ordered Landon a new car seat (he was outgrowing his infant one) and I am busy getting my disections and bacteria cultures done for the week. 

Actually that's a lie, I haven't started my labs yet because I just went downstairs to get going on them when I saw another black widow hanging from the window (that's 3 here since we moved in).  It's raining and she must have been hanging out on the beams of our deck when the rain washed her down from above.  She was hanging at eye level on the other side of the window, working her way back up.   I would have put my face right into her when I peaked outside to see how the yard is draining from the rain we are getting right now, but she had come down a foot to the left of the door and not directly in front of it, luckily.  I managed to run through the house, over laundry and dog and cat and toys, to the garage and grab the spider spray (with a 3 foot, battery operated shooter) and make it back downstairs before she had dissapeared.  I shot her right out of the air and into the darkness and can only hope that enough of the spray made it onto her to keep her from coming back.  She was smaller than the other one we found in October so I think she is one of the offspring that somehow made it through the winter.  Who knows where she has been hiding but I do know it wasn't the garage which I have been regularly checking.  While I love the wood stairs running down the side of our house, I have a feeling that it is a haven for spiders under there.  I wouldn't have a problem with this if I didn't have an infant and pets to worry about.  PLEASE black widows, go away.  Find a nice home somewhere else and take your nasty grass spider and orb web weavers with you please (although they are more ugly than dangerous, unlike you).

okay, back to the mission at hand.  lots of school work so we can make this trip to see Jason happen!!