It's getting close! 26 days to be exact!!

We are getting very close to being parents of two. It seems like yesterday we were creating this blog to keep everyone updated on Landon, how time flies! October 21st can't come soon enough for me and if I hit that date, the Dr. has decided to induce labor on the 22nd, so we are on an official countdown!

Landon still has no clue what the baby bump means. His daycare provider, Regina, now has two babies she is looking after, one almost three months old and one about four and a half months old. We hope these two babies are helping Landon prepare for what he is about to be in for.

Grandma and Grandpa T came down to visit for the Labor Day weekend, and the McNeely Grandparents were also in town the same weekend, so we were able to get a rare photo shoot in with both sets of Grandparents. Its was quite fun and long overdue for some good baby pictures with family. Then Robin and I went to the Dallas Arboretum this week to visit their pumpkin garden...the largest in the world according to them. It is a really beautiful setup with all of the fall colors and something I wanted to do with Landon last year, but the day we chose to go a private event was going on that we were unaware of. Needlesstosay, hopefully we have done our duty on getting some good professional pictures done for a while.

Robin and I both agree it truly is a joy being Landon's parents, we feel very blessed. Of course parenthood has its moments of frustration, but way more often than not we find ourselves laughing and thoroughly entertained by something he is doing. He is talking more and more everyday. Usually it is his own language and baby babble, but so far we are able to distinguish the following words: ball, dog, juice, shoes, more, cheese, duck, fish. Just today we noticed he is doing a lion "roar" which is pretty hilarious. Apparently they are learning animal noises at daycare and he has really picked up on the "roar!"

We had a slow start with getting him in water this summer, but by August we couldn't stop him from jumping in the kiddy pool. He LOVES to be outside and would spend most of his day outside if we let him. Now that it is finally cooling off, it will be easier for us to stay outside and enjoy it with him!

He keeps us very busy and we know it will only get busier here in a few weeks. Stay tuned for the next blog entry which will reveal pictures of the new baby and let everyone know "boy or girl?"

Love to all! The Tetzlaff's

Finally a new posting!!!

Wow we haven't done a posting since May 3rd, Donald Trump would have told us YOU'RE FIRED! Our family is doing well and find ourselves constantly busy. Landon is continuing to grow like a weed and now has 7 teeth. Brooke has continued to feel good the second time around and the baby is measuring slightly ahead of schedule. She now has a decent belly showing and this baby seems to kick and somersault all day long. This time around we found out the gender but have continued to keep it a secret. We started decorating the new nursery and should have it completed in the next few weekends. So what is Landon doing now? Landon is constantly making baby babble but still will not talk. He is very close to saying ball and dog. He will stand and point to Munchie and saw "daw". He now can practically run and lately started just randomly walking backwards. It's quite cute and almost looks like he is doing the moonwalk as a tribute to MJ. He now goes up and down stairs and loves to play peekaboo. He even tries to play with Munchie and he thinks it's so funny. About a month ago he finally started using a sippy cup and has also been learning to feed himself with a spoon and fork. Almost forgot Landon got his first haircut and he looked so handsome!

Back in June we took a family vacation to Michigan for a family wedding. Robin's cousin Ryan got married in Bay City, MI and after the wedding we rented a cottage in Gaylord, MI. Landon got to see a lot of his cousins and finally got to meet Kathy and Paul. We spent the week swimming, water skiing, wakeboarding, fishing, and the girls did some shopping. We spent as much time as possible relaxing and enjoying getting away from the heat. Landon enjoyed playing in the sand on the beach but didn't like the water, was a little cold for him! Robin and I teamed up for some fierce family badminton and we held our own. Robin got to play some golf, after all Gaylord, MI has 21 golf courses in the area. It was a wonderful vacation and loved being able to see most of the family and share in Ryan and Courtney's special day. Be sure to check out all the pictures of the trip, cottage, wedding, and additional random pictures.

Thanks for checking out the blog!
The Tetzlaff's

Landon's First Birthday!!

We celebrated Landon's first birthday on Sunday with Grandma and Grandpa McNeely. Brooke's aunt and uncle, Sandy and Duane, also made a surprise visit as they were unexpectantly in town. Enjoy the pictures!

Babies First Easter

Yes, that's right I said BABIES! Robin and I are officially pregnant again with baby number 2!! We hope to have just two children and really wanted them close in age if possible. We had been trying for about six months and were finally blessed to find out we were pregnant on Valentines day. Yesterday was our second visit to the baby dr. and everything looks great. I am feeling great again, not one day of sickness, but the fatigue seems to be a little worse this go round. I think Landon might have something to do with that because even Robin seems worn out at the end of every day! I am a little over 12 weeks along, and have a due date of October 21, 2010.

Landon's first Easter did not go exactly to plan. On the Saturday before easter we went to a city funded easter egg hunt and of course had to meet the Easter bunny. It was during that photo op that we think Landon contracted pink eye because for the rest of the day his eye would not stop watering. We went to G-ma and G-pa McNeely's that night for dinner and it only got worse. So, on Easter Sunday when he woke up to a crusted over eye, we opted to go to the CareNow clinic instead of church in order to not infect any of the other babies. He got all the necessary med's and it cleared up within a matter of hours! We are thankful it went away so quickly, but it was definitely not how we envisioned him spending his first Easter.

The month of April is only half over, but it has definitely been an eventful one. We FINALLY received an offer on our house which has been on the market since last August! Thank you to everyone who has been praying for us. Although that is a blessing, our closing date on the house is April 30, so we really need to get moving, literally! We have been packing a little each weekend, but the my parents will be over to assist with some (most!) of the heavy lifting in a couple of weekends. We have been house hunting and hope to have made a decision on our next house soon. We will be displaced temporarily, living with my parent's in Ft. Worth until we can close on the next house. All of our stuff will go to storage in the interim as well. Its fortunate that we have somewhere to go (that is free!), but both Robin and my commute will be rough, and we have not yet found temporary childcare for Landon. It will all work out, but just some details that have yet to be settled up.

So, after all of that news, it is safe to say we are keeping very busy here in Texas. I keep waiting for things to slow down a bit, but that doesn't seem to happen. We hope all is well with everyone! Love, Brooke, Robin, Landon, and Baby T(2)

Where oh where have we been?!

YIKES! Its been quite a long time since our last posting, but we have a good excuse. Our laptop went out a few weeks ago, needing a hard drive replacement. But now, we've got it all fixed up and we are back in business. So, that leaves us with what have we been up to for the last month, LOTS!

Back in January, Robin competed in the Big-D stair climb, which consists of 52 flights of stairs up one of the tallest office buildings in downtown Dallas, 1040 stairs in all. Over six hundred people competed in the event and Robin finished in the top ten percent! This is quite a feat considering he did NOT train one day for this. He looked quite sick at the finish and exclaimed it was the dumbest thing he had ever done....that was until he saw his time online when we got home, and now he can't wait for the next one.

Landon has experienced a couple of milestones this past month. He celebrated his first valentines day, complete with the exchange of valentines between all the kids in his class at day care. However, this was celebrated a day late, because the Friday before valentines day, the Dallas area metroplex received a record breaking snowfall for the most snow in a single calendar day in history, a whopping 12.5 inches! Needless to say, most schools in the area were canceled for the day.

Most recently, Grandma and Grandpa T came to visit and stay with Landon while Robin and I went to wedding in Las Vegas. Robin's old roommate/co-worker, Mike, got married up on a mountain outside of Vegas in a very picturesque setting, to his beautiful bride Leigh. We went skiing the day before the wedding up on Vegas' only ski resort. It had been nearly a decade since either of us had been skiing, so there was a bit of a learning curve at the beginning, but we had a great time. We were both shocked how fast it wiped us out of energy though! The real story about the trip away is just that, it was our first trip AWAY from Landon. Although we missed seeing his bright smiling face every day, we knew he was in good hands with G-ma and G-pa.

And the BIG updates for Landon physically are he FINALLY has some teeth, three to be exact! The two top front teeth are visible and starting to come down and he has one bottom front tooth visible. He is also getting more comfortable up on his feet. He stands most of the time, and walks everywhere he can, as long as there is something to hold on to. He will only take one or two steps without having a finger to hold or ottoman/couch to grab, but he is getting there. He still won't take his sippy-cup, which means he won't drink juice, but we keep trying.