No More Newborn

Davis is officially no longer a newborn. Here are some of the signs:

1. He does not stay on his blanket. I don't even know why I put one down anymore. The other morning, I put him down on the blue blanket you can see in the picture, and just a few minutes later, I found him over by Landon. He rolls, rotates around on his belly, and even is starting to try to push himself with his legs.


2. He can sit up! (with some assistance). We went to visit some friends yesterday, and their little baby was sitting up on a blanket, playing with some toys. I sat Davis down next to her, and he sat there for about a minute by himself! Today, he sat for awhile in the boppy. He seemed pretty proud of himself to be sitting up!

3. Finally, last but not least, twice today he got up on his hands and knees. Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of this one. I still think it's awhile before he's crawling (hopefully!), but I'm sure we'll see him change more and more everyday.

An Ashland 4th of July

We had a great Fourth of July in Ashland this year. We went to the crazy Ashland parade, listened to the band in the park while eating our lunch, and enjoyed the great fireworks up on the college lawn. While Landon was sitting downtown in his chair, waiting for the parade to start, my dad said, "Landon, you are getting so big!" Landon quickly replied, "Yeah, I was two for a lot of times but now I'm three." :)

Here are a few pictures of our trip! (I should have just done a slideshow! I realized as I was adding them there were more than I thought!)Landon dancing to the band. He loved the instruments in the parade, and he had Shane take him down to the bandshell so he could see them up close. Grandpa even got out his old trumpet and played it for him when we got home. He thought that was pretty cool!

Davis fell asleep for his morning nap minutes before the sirens came by in the parade, and then he never went back to sleep. When we got up to our blanket in the park, he just lay there for a long time, looking around, not making a peep. After about twenty minutes, he rolled over and fell sound asleep!


Relaxing in the park and listening to the city band.

We went ona walk through Lithia Park again on Saturday. Here's a picture of us on one of the many bridges going over the creek.

I'm not sure if you can tell from this picture, but this duck had about ten ducklings swimming around with her. Landon loved to watch them swim around!

Landon wanted to climb up in this rope jungle gym, with some help from Grandpa. He didn't want to stay up there too long though!

My great friend Bethany and her cute family were in town the same time as us, so we got together at Garfield Park and talked while the kids played in the water and the sand. Thanks Beth! It was so great to see you!!!

Here's Landon with his sparkler Saturday night. He thought they were pretty cool, and went through about five of them himself.

Me, Landon and Mom watching the firework show in our driveway. Dad and Shane did a pretty good job, except they were missing the famous crazy outfits my brothers always wear! You can see Landon's feet are up in this picture - he kept putting them up and asking me if it was okay to put them back down!

On Sunday, Landon did his usual game of taking off all of my mom's couch cushions and playing with them! I don't know why, but he always does that with her couch!



Davis and Landon on the living room floor.

My Little Caterpillar

In my previous post, I mentioned how Landon loved to find the caterpillars at the Oregon coast. Well last night, he was ready for bed, lying on the floor, and he said he was a caterpillar. He still had some toys out from the day, so I asked him if the caterpillar could pick up some toys. He is one clever boy, because his answer was, "No mom, I'm a caterpillar, so I don't have any hands. I just have toes and a mouth." But, being the even more clever mom that I am, I quickly answered, "Well then, little caterpillar, I guess you'll have to clean up your cars with your toes and your mouth." And he did! He put his cars in his mouth, then dropped them in the bucket. Then he picked some up with his toes.

Yesterday, he also took these ABC stickers I had got in some junk mail and asked if he could play with them. I said sure, and then went back to what I was doing. Next time I saw him, he looked like this.
He thought he was pretty funny. You'll have to check out the picture. Today, he found this horse puppet that we have, and he has been wearing it on his hand all day. He talks with it, and it helps him do things, like eat his dinner. Tonight, he said his prayer before going to bed, and the whole time, he had the horse in his hand "talking" too. I'm not sure if that's being completely reverent, but oh well!

Nothing like the Oregon Coast

This is where we spent all of last week . . . at the Oregon coast! It was such fun. Shane's parents exchanged their timeshare for this one in Newport, Oregon at the Embarcadero Resort, right on Yaquina Bay. We could see this bridge out our window every morning. It was gorgeous weather the entire time we were there. We were so lucky! We did all kinds of fun things like flying kits, riding ATV's on the sand dunes, playing at the beach, visiting the aquarium, swimming in the pool, playing games, taking a boat ride, searching for beach life, visiting the lighthouse, shopping at the outlets, and visiting the Tillamook Cheese factory. Here are a few pictures of our trip, and the last one is a slideshow if you want to see more! Thanks again Kent and Christie for a great vacation!

At the Oregon Coast Aquarium. Davis was a big fan of the Bjorn last week, and was pretty much in it anywhere we went! Landon loved seeing all the fish and animals they had there.

The very first morning we were there, Landon discovered a little caterpillar on the ground outside our room. That was just the beginning of a week-long hunt for caterpillars. He would fill a paper cup full, bring them inside, then have fun knocking them down if they got too high in the cup. It became quite a challenge to convince him to let them go each time!

Everyone liked to play with Davis and enjoyed his great smile! Of course, sometimes, they also enjoyed his pouty face, although we didn't see that too often!

This picture is of Landon out on our balcony observing some starfish.

Here's Landon and Shane at the beach flying their kite. It was almost too windy for kite flying!

Shane, Kent, Landon, Mark, and Melanie all went on a boat "cruise" out on the ocean.

Shane and me on our ATV's on the sand dunes. I almost didn't go because I was going to stay with the kids, but Christie's back hurt and Kent didn't want to go, so I decided to be brave. I was a little intimidated at first when I saw the huge sand dunes, but soon I figured it out and had a lot of fun driving around. I only had to have Shane and his brothers help pull me out once or twice. :)

Here is a slideshow of the rest of our trip. Hope you enjoy!

What? A tooth?

That's right. Davis woke up this morning with a new tooth poking through his bottom gums. I can't believe it. I thought he had been fussy this week, and gnawing on everything in sight, but I just thought he was showing the first signs of teething and wouldn't actually get a tooth for months. Landon's first tooth was at six months, but he got four at once. Davis probably has his other bottom tooth on the way shortly, but it seems like the tops ones aren't that close. Yesterday, I got him this fun exersaucer as another of my Craigslist deals. Another great find! He sure loves it! Landon likes it too, and he likes to push the buttons to make music for Davis. I'm pretty sure Davis dances to the music. As soon as it turns on, he starts moving his feet up and down.

Family Pictures

Today, we went over to my friend Johanna's place to get some family pictures, and Landon and Davis's 3 year and 3 month old pictures. It actually went very well, despite my worst fears! Davis, although not too cooperative for the family shots, loved being in the spotlight by himself and smiled big for all of his pictures! Johanna put up a few of the pictures on her blog, so check them out! Thanks Johanna! We love them!

www.nfocusphotography.blogspot.com

Talking and Laughing

Last weekend, I took a couple of videos of Davis. The first is of him "talking." He is quite loud, much louder than I remember Landon, but maybe that's because he has to be with his brother around! Unfortunately, he is loud at the beginning, but at the end, he is pretty quiet, so if you get bored, just turn it off! J
www.sjmalan.com/Video/Davistalking.5_24_08.wmv

The second video is one of him laughing. He's been laughing for a few weeks now, and he definitely does it most for his dad! www.sjmalan.com/Video/Davislaughing.5_24_08.wmv

The funny thing is, our first video of Landon laughing is almost exactly the same – Shane is making him laugh, and Landon is wearing the same onesie! www.memorylanepreschool.com/video/laughing.wmv