Landon's new glasses. We went to the beach and he wore these everywhere. Really! He wore them to breakfast, lunch, dinner, the pool, and the beach. He wanted to wear them on the way home, but we said 'no' because he had huge red circles around his eyes!
Patrick climbed up into Scott's legs and laid down the other day. It's so funny having a child who likes to lay around and relax! I never saw Landon take a break from playing unless it was bedtime!
We celebrated Patrick's birthday a little early since we traveled on his actual birthday. We had a fun little get away where the boys got to swim a lot.
First, this is a picture I took from our balcony. People of all ages run and jump over the fire. I even saw some women holding smaller children. The tradition dates way back and essentially they are wanting the fire to take away sickness and replace it with health and energy. I don't know that it has lots of meaning today, but they still jump over the fire.
As you can see, the boys do a lot together. That's mostly Patrick's idea. He doesn't like to be apart from Landon. Sometimes they play great together, sometimes Patrick is quite the agitator. I think he's the perfect example of a little brother! Oh, that's our new couch that the boys are sitting on! We really like it!
In Turkey they celebrate Kids Day and the kids do big programs where they dance and recite poems and sing, etc. Here's Landon's school's program. His teacher is the one in the purple shirt and black pants. He was doing as much as we expected until he saw Scott.
Landon and I went on a field trip with his school yesterday. We were headed to a nearby ski resort. We left the school on time about 8am. We stopped for breakfast about 9:30. Now, this was Turkish breakfast that all the moms had packed. There was every type of pastry you could imagine, olives, and several carafes of tea. I think there was enough to feed an army. We finished up there, got back on the bus. I was thinking it would take about 2.5 hours to get to the ski resort, so at this point I was thinking we just had a little longer to go. On a side note, Landon loved the bus and just looked out the window most of the time. We stopped in a little village a little up the mountain and toured a mosqued with something historic in it. Then we stopped a little further up to see an important person's grave. However, there was a little booth with toys, so we didn't make it to the grave site. Landon thinks we stopped to visit the "toy store"! Then we head back DOWN the mountain. At this point I ask someone what we're doing. Turns out everyone had thought since we were so close to these important places we would take the detour. Now, I do want to give some credit to my Turkish. I was asked if it was okay with me to stop at these places, but somehow I missed that they weren't on the way! Anyway, we head back up another mountain and at about 12:30 stop on the side of the road with what looks like a lot of other people. Someone said we can't go any further right now, so let's play hear. I'm thinking okay, but really, we were on the side of the road. Anyway, Landon loved it!! As soon as he saw the first bit of snow he was ready to get out. The first thing he did was lay down on his belly and take a big bite! We played in the snow for about 20min and loaded back in the bus to go find lunch. We made a few more stops in a few more villages before we stopped at a place you could buy meat and grill. They had a nice place for the kids to sit inside and the adults could drink tea. After eating we headed home. I think we spent at least 8 hours on that bus! What a day! We had a great time, though. And Landon's reaction to the snow was priceless!
