New happenings

Well it has been awhile since we have updated our blog. There has been so many things going on since last post.

Landon turned 7 months November 26. He weighed somewhere around 13.5 pounds. At that point, we was sleeping from 10:30pm-1am in his crib, getting up to nurse, and then sleeping again from 1am-8 or 9am in our bed.

He started eating new foods like sweet peas, carrots, ground turkey, and mashed potatoes. The later was his Thanksgiving meal. We took a trip over Thanksgiving to Arkansas to see everyone. We spent the first part of the week at Brian's mom and dad's house then spent the second half of the week with my family. While in Hot Springs visiting my family, it snowed. This would be Landon's first of two snows this year.The drive home is around 8-9 hours. On the way to Arkansas, he did pretty good. He really only cried the last 1-2 hours. The way back to Houston however was a different story. He fussed and cried off and on the whole way back. We decided right then and there it would be a little while before we made that drive again. He has really discovered the cats this month. He smiles, talks, and giggles at them. This month saw him sitting up really well all by himself and he has discovered that he loves to hold hands with us and walk around. He babbles and has the biggest grin when we walk.

December 26th marked Landon's 8th month. He weighed a little over 14 pounds and was 25 1/2 inches long. He still split his sleeping at night between his crib and our bed. He wakes up anywhere from 2-5 times a night and nurses. It gets exhausting walking back and forth across the house so this is the best solution for us at the time. He eats all the time and I am not sure he knows when to stop. He sometimes eats 2 jars (3 ozs. each) in one sitting and still eat solids 2 more times that day plus nurse every 2 hours in between. His new foods include pureed pork chops, turnips, green beans, pears, peaches, and chicken. He loved his green beans for awhile and then suddenly one day, he decided he no longer liked them. He would put his tongue out, make gagging noices, and start fussing. We also started eating puffs. By the middle of January, he was putting them in his mouth on his own.

December was such a big month for our little man. He started crawling 1 1/2 weeks before Christmas. The week of Christmas he started pulling himself up on the couch, on us, on the fireplace, on his toys, on the.......you get the picture. Not only did he start pulling up, he started cruising along those objects.

His top right tooth came in on 12/21 and the top left tooth came in on 12/28. He had his first ear infection towards the last half of December and ran his first fever on 1/25.

Landon's first Christmas was spent here at the house. The week before Christmas through the day after, Landon's grandma and grandpa Oliver were visiting. Right before Christmas through New Year, Landon's grandma and grandpa Benjamin were visiting. Landon was spoiled those 2 weeks. He received some great gifts from mommy and daddy, both grandparents, his aunts and uncle, and Santa. His greatest gift was probably his stuffed rocking horse. He squealed at it for 10 min. straight Christmas day. He had the biggest grin everytime he saw it the rest of the day. To this day, he still giggles at it everytime. It is the cutest thing I have ever seen. I am pretty sure he thinks it is just a bigger cat. We also took a trip to see the Dickinson Festival of Lights. Landon met Santa. He didn't care one way or the other. We also got to play the Holy Family at our church's Walk Through Bethleham. It was a lot of fun. Landon wanted to go to sleep but because it was so busy, he couldn't so of course, he fussed most of the time.

The first part of January, I started the nannying for the Martins. Landon LOVES their dog Daisy and Daisy is just as in love with Landon. She is so good with him. Landon saves his biggest laugh for her when she is playing with her chew toys.

January has seen some challenges for us. We switched pediatricians. We liked our previous pedi but we just felt we were not getting the care we wanted from her. We met our new pedi at his 9 month check up and LOVE her. She took so much time with us going into more than enough detail answers for our questions. She also gave us more direction to our continous night nursing issues. She gave more advice than to just let him cry it out. Brian and I both feel that method is not for us and it was nice to get some help that supported our decision.

After that long update, here are a few other pictures from November and December. Enjoy!