Another Great Day at Preschool

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Yesterday, Landon had another great day at Memory Lane Preschool. They went to Lesley's Pumpkin Patch. When I went to pick up Landon at preschool, he was sitting down on his carpet by a cute little girl who had decided to be his friend. She kept holding his hand and following him all around It was pretty funny.

The pumpkin patch was great! All the kids chose a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch, Matt Clason took us all on a hay ride around the field, and then we fed the cows with apples. It was tons of fun!

After the pumpkin patch, Mom, Landon and I went downtown Ashland to Greenleaf to get some sandwiches to go, then to Lithia Park for a picnic. The park is so beautiful this time of year! It brought back so many memories of walking through the park in the fall with Mom, looking at all the beautiful fall colors. Landon especially loved kicking the leaves around as he walked, and watching leaves float down the creek. I got a little carried away with pictures because it was all so beautiful, so I ended up putting them in a slideshow! We walked up to the duck pond, where Landon had a blast feeding the ducks. He kept telling me he was feeding the ducks, not cows, I guess since he had just fed the cows an hour earlier. I even took a little video of it, so you will have to watch that. Landon is going to be pretty sad to get back to boring life with just his mom, with no grandma and no preschool!

Click the picture to watch the video of Landon feeding the ducks.

Putting out Fires

Today, Landon was lucky and got to go to preschool again with Grandma. It was fire safety day, and as Landon is going to be a firefighter for Halloween, he thought it was pretty cool. He watched the fireman put on his suit, crawled on the floor pretending there was smoke in the room, and best of all, blew a firehat off a cone with the water hose!

Pumpkin Patch

Today, Landon and I went to the pumpkin patch with a couple of people in our ward. It must have been our lucky day, because despite the fact that it has been raining all week, today was dry and even fairly warm, so it was a nice day. Landon had fun running through the hay maze, riding on the tractor, and picking out a pumpkin! Oh, I made some cupcakes for one the mom's birthdays. Landon and Shane ate one for lunch, but Landon didn't know quite what to do with it. He tried picking it up, then put it back down, they he picked it back up again, then put it back down. You can see in the pictures what he finally decided to do! Click on the picture above to watch a slideshow of our fun day at the pumpkin patch!

Five Little Pumpkins

At long last, we have finally put up a new video of Landon on our website. This video is of Landon reciting the Five Little Pumpkins poem and answering some questions about himself. Now, to those of you who have seen the famous reciting by Jake of the Five Little Pumpkins/Fishies, don't get too high of expectations. Nonetheless, this is fun to watch. I'll just put the link here because I posted the video on our website: http://www.sjmalan.com/video.htm. Hope you enjoy the video!

It's Raining, It's Pouring

The rainy season has officially started in Portland. It seemed to start much later last year, but the forecast for this entire week is . . . rain. This afternoon, after Landon woke up from his nap, there was a break in the clouds and the sun poked through, so I thought Landon and I had better take advantage of it right away before the weather changed again. We put on Landon's rain boots and hat, a jacket, and headed out. Landon wanted to find some worms, but unfortunately we didn't find any. When an airplane flew overhead, Landon asked where it was going. I told him it was flying away into the clouds, but he said, "Mommy, airplane helping Landon find worms!" I guess he knew better than me! :)

We did find lots of other fun things. Landon found two old apples he wanted to carry around for awhile.

Despite the cooler fall weather, there were still plenty of flowers out! Landon found these orange ones that he wanted to stop and smell.

As soon as we saw the sidewalk covered with orange berries and bright red leaves, Landon dropped the apples and decided he wanted to stomp on the orange berries. I'm not sure if you can tell from the pictures, but he is pretty into it!

We also found lots of other great things on our walk - some helicopter leaves, a kitty sleeping on a lawn, a squirrel "drinking chocolate milk" (that's what Landon said he was doing), and even the Eiffel Tower! Well, not really the Eiffel Tower, but a small lawn decoration that Landon said was a little Eiffel Tower. Hopefully we'll have a few more breaks in the clouds to go on some more walks this week.