Landon is on the move

Sorry its been so long since I updated this, I promised myself today that I would start doing it on a weekly basis, lets see if that sticks or not. Landon is doing so many cute things lately that I want to tell everyone so I figured I could keep track for myself as well as yall if I started updating our blog more. So here goes.




Landon loves taking a bath, and now that he can stand up there is no stopping this kid. He grabs onto the edge and pulls himself up, we have to clear off the ledge of all the shampoos and soaps so that he will not get them because thats the first thing he goes for, no matter how many toys we give him he still wants the "big kid" stuff. He is a little pistol. He still loves to suck on his wash rag to get his water for the day. Once he has "drank" all the water out of the wash rag he will stick it back in the water and "refill" it then drink some more. Too smart for his own good.

(here he has just "refilled" the wash rag)

Landon has a little soccer ball (a Barbie one) that one of the kids I watch gave him and it just big enough to fit into his mouth with out him chocking on it and small enough that he can almost close his mouth. It scares me when he crawls around with it in his mouth, Im so afraid he is going to fall and shove it down his throat, but we have world war III on our hands if we try and take it away from him. I give it to him in his pack n play now cause, (i thought) he could not get into too much trouble with it in there. I also put his other ball toys in there with him too, the ones his Mimi sent him. The are nerf balls and I believe all of them have a chunk missing as well as teeth marks all over them. The loves to throw them out of the pack n play and yell MAMA!!! He thinks its a fun game, it is not so much fun for MAMA!!!! He loves to "play fetch" with everyone, he will drop toys behind the pews at church and make who ever is behind us pick it up, usually its some one elses little kids so they dont mind. But as soon as they give it back to him he laughs and does it again, after two times the toy is mamas! He now does it with his bottles as well, that makes a big mess!
Noah is so proud of Landon using his LEFT HAND to throw. He loves his baseball! He will throw it and then try to catch them when we toss it back, he usually winds up just clapping his hands together instead of catching it, its so cute. He also loves to throw is and then crawl after it, pick it up and throw it again, that game amuses him for quite a while. We took it to church with us and when he was fussing and fidgeting, (he does not like to sit still for too long) and then kept trying to crawl away I took him to the foyer and put him down on the floor and he played that game for awhile, till other little kids came out and took the ball from him then he would just crawl after them looking upset and confused, that made mommy a little upset, so when one of the kids threw the ball at Landon to play catch and it missed his head by and inch, mommy had enough and went and took the ball and Landon and went back in.Landon loves his bottles as you can see by the above picture, he has to have one in each had at all times. (jk) He does love to have something to drink all the time.
Landon throwing a fit (not really this time, this time he was just trying to tell us something, but its the same idea.) He rocks back and forth and then will throw his head backwards and clap his hands together as he is coming forward, its very funny to watch. He also bangs his head on the back of things, the wall, pews at church, the back of the couch, his car seat, and then laughs hysterically after doing it about 10-15 times, he is a hoot, he gets bouncing so his head just bounces right off.
Landon loves his pickles as you can see, they always make him happy. Either that or crackers. His favorite foods right now are: potatoes, chicken, wagon wheels, cheese, pickles, lolipops and anything he can feed himself. He now will not eat unless he is feeding himself, so we put the food on the spoon or fork and give it to him then he feeds it to himself and when he is done he will hand us the fork back and make the sign language sign for more. He makes that sign all the time now, he will do it when he wants me instead of Noah or when he is on the floor crying he will make that sign and then say MAMA, it melts my heart, how can I help but pick him up, he just wants "more mama" its precious. Landon used to love to eat Raisans, it was the fall back if he would not eat anything else, but now he does not want those, he wants something more. Which is nice for us when we have to change his diaper, no more raisan filled diapers. Oh and while we are on the diaper subject, I kept meaning to tell you how we know he is going potty, forgive me, Im a mom and think its just cute as can be, anyway..... He just hiccups and then its over and he is done, its sooo cute. They were saying a prayer in church one day and right in the middle of it he did his little "HIC" hiccup and Noah and I knew what that meant and both of us tried not to laugh, its just so funny, such a little noise for such a big poop. :O) Landon loves to just stand and look all around, bend over grab a toy and then stand back up, I think he thinks it makes him a big boy. (which he is of course, too big)

I think some times however he thinks he is still tiny, he got in here all by himself, he was ready to get washed up I guess. Trying to tell us something. I am just waiting for the day when I hear him yelling MAMA DADA from the back of the house, only to find him in the bath tub ready for a bath. Which I am so glad he loves bathes, it makes our bed times much easier, or the after meal cleanings much easier. After dinner last night, potato salad which he fed himself, we were very tempted to put him in the tub, clothes and all.

Yes he is on the move, and very quick at that, he follows us everywhere and makes it there faster then us sometimes too. He is good at finding people. Noah got up with him like 15 minutes before I got up this morning and when Noah went outside to put the car seat back in the car, Landon came to find me. I was laying there fixing to get up when I heard the door open and thinking it was Noah was waiting for him to say something, then I hear this "huh huh huh" noise and knew right away that Landon was in the room and out of breath from the long haul from the living room to our bed room, sure enough a second later I feel a little tug on the blanket and Landon was right there face to face with me, "HEY MAMA!!!" it was too cute.

Landon loves to drink out of big boy cups, that is the only way we can get him to drink water, and only out of "big kid" cups, not sippy cups or plastic ones, if we give him a plastic one then he smooshes it and the water shoots out of the top, its rather comical. He will drink too much at one time and have to catch his breath, its funny because I do the same thing, Noah says he learned to drink from me. Sometimes he is laughing so hard because one of us is making faces into the bottom of the cup that when he goes to drink more he misses his mouth and spills all over him, he will gasp from the cold and then laugh some more.

Landon likes to "help" me with the dishes, he unloads the spoons and forks and bangs them on the other dishes to get my attention. Then when I ask him what he laughs and does it again. Its very cute to watch but sometimes he does not really "help" me so much, so I showed him where the cabinets where that he can get into with out braking anything so now he goes to those, when when Im not in the kitchen, thats always a fun thing to come and find. He is so fast with it too, I will make it in there 30 seconds after he is disapered and find lids or pots all over the floor, Ill take a picture of that next time I find it.


We have a gate up to the kitchen and Landon would come and grab it and shake and yell DADA MAMA trying to get into the kitchen, we do not have a gate to the dining room which has a door to the kitchen and he just in the last few days realized that if he goes to long way he can get into the kitchen, so its time for another gate.

Landon with his spoon, helping mama. We find utensils all over the house now.

Landon just plays in is crib now and has figure out that he does not have to sleep he can just play. So getting him down for a nap is lots of fun, so now we just put him in there and let him play and when he gets sleepy he will just plop down where ever, sometimes I find him in very odd positions like the one above. He was just sitting up and I guess fell over asleep, such a goof. When he wakes up sometimes he will scream bloody murder till I come and get him, but most of the time he will either stand up and shake the bars yelling MAMA MAMA or just sit and play and talk for 15- 30 minutes or more sometimes, He gets to his bears on his mobile and plays with them.

I dont know if you can see the purple around Landongs right eye and the little bruise on his forhead, but its his first black eye and bruise. He was climbing up onto the couch and fell down and hit his head on the wood paneling running along the bottom of the couch, he cried for so long and just loved on me the rest of the day, I felt so bad. I hope its his first and last black eye, bruise, but I doubt it is, the kid is fearless, he will slam him fingers into drawers and cabinets and just pull his hand out, look at it and go on about his business.

Landon loves to just sit and watch his movies, Baby Einstine is all we let him watch, and he loves them. In the morning he gets a bottle of milk and then sits in front of the TV and watches his movie. The movie plays repeat most of the day (they are sign language movies so we are hoping he will get them into his head.) but he rarely stops to watch them during the day because there is just to many other things to do and get into. Sometimes he will stop and stare and then just move along.

Sorry this is so long, I will try to update it more so each on wont be so long. Hope yall enjoy.

Growing up... with everything!

Landon loves his little "truck" he just sits on it and tries to grab things and pull them up there with him. He does not like for you to move it, and he has not figured out how to move it himself yet either. I think he just likes being up and on his own and doing "big boy" things. He hits the middle of the handle bar trying to make noise. All of his toys make noise, and he has a car that has a little horn that honks. So he tries to get this to honk, but it of course does not, I told Noah was needed to get him a little horn for it. He is just growing up so fast.
Landon loves to take baths and play wit his toys and wash rags. He has to have one of his own every time he gets a bath. And by this point he makes such a mess every time he eats that he gets two baths a day sometimes. One after his messy morning(or mid day) meal and one before bed. He loves to be in there, so when we are done washing him we let most the water out and just let him play in there with his toys, while we watch him, smiling and laughing at how cute he is. He tries so hard to reach the toys when they float out of the way, and sometimes he things that the tub stopper is a toy, and gets a little frustrated when he cant make it move.

LOOK AT THOSE BIG BEAUTIFUL BROWN EYES!!! Mommy and daddy love this little guy soooo much. He brings so much joy to our lives and into our home.

Our little big man

Landon has been trying so hard to crawl, he just moves backwards though. He can get all the way across the room backwards, very slowly though, it takes about 10 minutes, and you have to be giving him some insentive as well, he train noise works really well and it moves across the floor so he trys to follow it. He has got the biggest smile and loves to giggle and play. You can see his two bottom teeth in this picture. He also has his two big top teeth, one to the right of that, and another coming in to the left. He loves to grind them now too, which makes my skin crawl, but he has just recently figured it out, so he does it all the time. I think in this picture you can see how big his eyes are. He takes after his mommy in that respect, but I think thats about it.
Landon has also started to feed himself. He loves to eat biter biscuits, baby corn puffs, corn wagon wheels, potatoes and raisens. He has mastered the biscuits but thats about it. They are really big and he can fit them into his mouth by himself. The rest of the food he picks up and tries to put it in his mouth, but he sticks his whole hand in there and then can not figure out how to get the food out of the hand and into the mouth. He makes a big mess as you can see and we have to "hose" him down. While taking his bath recently he has found his little boy parts and has begun to grab and squeeze. I laugh and ask him if that hurts? Its funny thought cause every time he takes a bath now, and his hands brush it, he grabs and squeezes. What a goof!!

We got Landon a little tykes "truck" he loves it. He loves to just sit in it and play around, he sits up in it really good now and does not need any assistance. He really enjoys himself and loves to pull toys onto it with him. He is now however starting to try and figure out how to get off, oh when he starts to walk, we will have our hands full for sure. He is still a big drooler and has to where a bib with everything, or we have to change him every ten minutes. He has of course learned how to pull the bibs off, and very quickly so we can stop him, its like a magic trick for him. He also loves to play peekaboo, he will pull the blanket up over his head and giggle so hard till someone says something to him, then he will yank it down and smile, and then pull it right back up. The other day he was in my lap and put his burp cloth over his face, and put his hands down, he just sat real still for a few minutes then he started to giggle, so I asked him "wheres landon?" he yanked it down and started to smile and giggle even more. He loves to play, he is just a busy little man.

I know that I have not blogged in forever, so I figured I would update as much as I can. So much as happened with Landon since I last blog, and with Noah, nothing really new with me though. :O) Landon is eating food now, has not mastered feeding himself, or even close, he loves to play with his spoons, but he can not figure out have to get the food in his mouth, he puts his whole fist in there and can not figure out why the food wont stay in there. He does not like baby food at all, he is a total real food boy. He likes chicken and cheerios, he loves his apple juice mixed with water, and chewing on carrots and apples. He has a little friend at church that he tries to share his carrots with. So now we pack enough for both of them. He is not so sure about the freeze dried food, he just horreds the corn in his cheeks. I put some on his tray and he kept eating them, so I thought, Yeah my baby likes veggies, but alas when he laughed, I spotted them horreded in his cheeks. I asked him if he was a squrriel or a chipmunk saving up for the winter. He is just a hoot when he eats, he makes the silliest faces and now noises. He makes an, ummmmmmm, sound when he eats his rice cereal, after every bite, it sounds like he is saying YUMMMM! Its so cute, so Noah and I mimic him and ask him if its good? And then he started rocking back and forth and swinging his arms, so we take that to mean, OF COURSE!



Dont want to jinx it, but I just had to tell everybody. Landon slept through the night last night, IN HIS CRIB!!!!! YEAH mileston reach, hope we can keep it up. He got a bath and a massage, and then got ready for bed and had his bottle around 9. He then feel asleep and woke up about 5 minutes later and cried for about 15-20 minutes, when he finally got quit Noah and I tooked at each other wondering if we really were hearing silence. We checked on him before we went to bed and he was still sound asleep. He fussed a few times, and then in his sleep turned on his waterglobe on his bed, and he cried, but did not wake up, so I went in and turned it off and he was fine. He woke up about 3 and downed a bottle in about 3 minutes flat and fell back asleep. He woke up about 7:30 this morning and has been happy as a clam ever since.

We are so excited about this, it finally means after 6 months that Noah and I can sleep with out a baby in the bed with us. And maybe we can actually get sleep.

More Landon News!

Landon is growing up so fast, he has got so many facial expressions, I often wonder what he is thinking, what is going through his sweet little head. He has taken to his daddy very well since Noah quit wearing cologne, they are best buds. He loves to be held be his daddy and will sometimes just stare up at him and get a big grin on his face. Yesterday he was just a giggling when Noah was holding him and talking to him. Noah tells him secrets and makes him promise not to tell anyone, especially mommy, and Landon always starts cooing and gurling when Noah asks him if he can do that, Im not sure if he is agreeing or not. If you are holding him slightly he can push up from his knees to a standing position. He also loves it when I put some of the juices from whatever we are eating for dinner on my finger and let him lick it off. Yesterday for lunch I had left over Chicken Noodle cassarole and I was feeding some of the gooey parts to him and he was loving it. When he was done with what was in his mouth he would look at me and start moving his head as close to me as he could get it and smacking his lips. I also give him some of my popsicle whenever I am eating one and he gets this big wide eyed grin, he of course makes a big mess and slobbers everywhere, but he loves every minute of it and its just so cute to watch. We are going to ask the doctor next visit when is the earliest we can give him baby food, cause he really seems to like it. He is also drolling a lot and like to chew on things, namely his hands and mommy or daddys shoulders, so we felt the inside of his mouth and it feels like he is getting teeth. He also has in the last few weeks discovered his tongue and likes to lick our faces or shoulders. He also sticks it out whenever he if laying down on the bed and makes slurping sounds with it. He has had trouble pooping, so we went to the doctor to see if everything was okay. We had been having to give him a home version of an enima, we would stick the bottom thermometer in his butt and massage his tummy, it worked like a charm, but we did not like having to help him poop, we wanted him to not be so uncomfortable and be able to do it on his own. The doctor said that everything was okay with him, but that it did look like he was getting the makes of a hernia by his right testie, so we have to keep an eye on that. In the mean time, my mother sent us so essential oils to help calm him and help with the colick. It seems to be working, it has moved his crying time from about 3 hours at night to anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour, and getting shorter each time. The amazing thing about it though is that it has helped Landon poop on his own, he is now going about 3-4 times a day by himself. Its actually rather cute because you can tell he is going to the bathroom, he grunts a lot and really loud. The other day I woke up to him giggling because he was pooping, I could not help but laugh and kiss him all over. There is nothing in the world like waking up, opening your eyes, and seeing your beautiful babys bright smiling face staring up at you. He has graduated from sleeping on my stomach to sleeping inbetween me and Noah, and surprisingly Noah has managed not to smooch him, yet. Landon takes up the whole bed however, by spreading out his arms as far as he can and kicking the whole night, Noah and I are both huging the edge of the bed for dear life. We both joke that we are going to have to get bed rails so we dont fall off the bed. Our baby is growing up too fast, I guess those extra 11 days in utero did that too him. I was driving by the elementary school the other day and saw some dads in uniform waiting outside for their kids. One little boy came running out of his classroom and jumped into his dads arms. I started to cry because I can see Landon doing that and I can just see the years zooming by. We are cherishing every moment with him because before we know it he will be going off on his own, I only hope that we are able to teach him all that we can before that time comes. Each day with him is a gift from god and I am so thankful that I am so blessed to be his mother and to be able to wake up next to one of gods miracles each and everyday. I valued the time when he is this little and wants to sleep with mommy and daddy, because one day that will be a fleeting memory that we can only look back on and smile with the deepest of love and gratitude.