Bananas

Tonight was Landon's 1st night trying bananas! He absolutely loved them. So much so he wouldn't let go of the spoon so he helped me feed himself almost the entire bowl. I bought groceries tonight so I made sure to buy plenty of bananas for him to eat on this week as well as us. We made all of Adalyn's baby food for her, except peas. But everything else, we made. SOO much cheaper and I like knowing where it's coming from! It's so nice when you can walk out to your garden, grab a butternut squash, and cook/puree it for them. So tonight, I smashed up some banana and we video taped Landon taking his first bite.

Rolling Over

Landon has rolled over all day today.(4.5 months) As soon as I lay him on his back, he instantly flips over! I am so excited. The past week or so he has been wanting to so bad and if we gave him a gentle budge, he would flip. But now, it's immediate. Changing his diaper is becoming a little difficult as well. Those feet go right to his mouth and now that he is rolling, I have to keep turning him back over. I know diaper changing will become more difficult once he really starts moving around. It's alllll coming back to me now. I remember thinking I was getting some sort of a work out with Adalyn everytime I had to change her diaper. I am just loving all of these milestones! I love that he is getting older/bigger. He is really just so much fun!

Make-Up

Somebody got into my make-up...


She was so proud of herself!

Cereal

Wednesday, January 25, Landon had his first cereal! He is right at 4 1/2 months old, the same age Adalyn was when we introduced cereal to her. He was messy with it, just as I expected, but overall I think he enjoyed it! It was even his first time in his (Adalyn's) highchair. We moved Adalyn into her booster seat so he could take over the highchair. We will give him cereal for the rest of the week and then on Monday introduce bananas.
1st time in highchair


1st bite


Tonight (thursday)

Monday

Adalyn woke up in the best mood this morning! Adam, myself, and landon were already up before we heard Adalyn mumble over the monitor. We both went in to get her but she was still laying down. I didn't think she even knew we were in there. But all of a sudden, I see her head pop up and she started laughing and said, "you scared me to death!" Once I got her out of her bed, I changed her 10 lb. diaper and then she ran into the living yelling, "brother! brother!" The first thing she asks us about every morning is, "Where is Landon?" She sure does love him. She was so good all day and only have 1 melt down right before nap time. She starts crying and then keeps crying and she doesn't even know why she is crying. It didn't take her 5 minutes to fall asleep. When she woke up, I had just finished feeding landon and was changing his diaper. She looked at me and said, "back to bed now." I guess she was still sleepy. She had a good 2 hour nap and I knew a popcicle would wake her up so we went into the kitchen and ate our popcicles. We made a tent today and played hide and go seek. Which is her all time favorite game but I must say, after playing it around 50 times a day, it is getting quite old. She also spent quite some time jumping on my stomach while I talked to Hope on the phone and then we played airplane. We colored, dusted, cleaned my bathroom, washed and folded laundry, watched cartoons, and played with Landon. She also informed me today that she was as tall as a rainbow. haha. I had no clue where that came from. She says the strangest things sometimes! Adam went and bought groceries after school (thanks babe!) and then we headed to my parents for some chili, corn bread, and cookies. YUM. thanks momma! It was delicious and I am still stuffed. I hate when I do that to myself. One of her favorite things to do there is take a bath. Granna lets her get away with a lot more in the bath tub than I do so I guess that's why she begs for a bath every single time we are over there. I guess that's what grandparents are for. We watched Veggie Tales, played with Singer, played with landon, and played with my old baby dolls. She didn't want to leave but we managed to get her in the car without crying. Which always makes for a better car ride home! I heard we had some bad storms last night. Which is crazy because I honestly didn't know anything was going on. I had to go to landon's room once last night to put the paci in his mouth and as i was walking back through the living room, I heard rain and saw lightening, but I didn't think it was bad. It obviously wasn't b/c I went back to sleep without hearing a sound from the storms.
Playing... I don't think Landon was in the mood to play
Telling me something very important
I do believe he is the cutest little boy I have ever seen!
Playin and eating cheese

Cheez-Its

We love Cheez-its in this house. Adalyn thinks they are Cheetos and I don't correct her. This afternoon when she woke up from her nap, we were snacking on some. I had just changed Landon's diaper and she crawled over to him with a hand full of "cheetos" and said, " Landon drink milk, not my cheetos." All I could do was laugh. Adalyn was much more behaved today than Wednesday. Thank goodness. I thought I was going to pull every single hair out of my head on Wednesday and I was SO glad when Adam got home. She was just acting like a 2 year old and whining over anything and everything. I can't stand when she whines, esp. when it's over nothing! Thankfully she napped for 2 hours and woke up in a much better mood. She is having a bit of a problem listening to what I ask her to do. I know, I know, every 2 year old does, but it just seemed like on Wednesday, I just couldn't win! I was so tired all day so I know that just made things worse. Nancy made us a pot roast that day so we ate that and then headed off to church. As soon as we pulled up she said, "My Lynn! My Lynn!" She knows she gets to see her everytime we come to church. It is so refreshing to to go to church in the middle of the week. It helps clear my mind and feel at peace about things. We tried to not swaddle landon for 2 nights... the 1st night was ok, the 2nd night was just plain awful. After alternating times of going into his room every hour, I decided to swaddle him again. Once he figures out how to not make himself mad by whacking his face with his arms, it will be much better. He is close to rolling on his own so I know once he does this consistently, we will have to stop swaddling. Adam says we swaddled Adalyn at this age but I can't remember. I do remember walking into her room one morning and she was sleeping on her stomach and me saying to adam, "well, she knows how to roll over!" So i guess she was still swaddled around this age. No pictures tonight. too tired. Off to bed I go.

4 Months!

Landon is 4 months old today! He has his check up and weighed 17 lbs 1 oz and is 26 3/4 inches long. 95th% for length and 85th% for weight. He had 3 shots and even though Adalyn didn't have a check up today, she got her second dose of the flu vaccine. Poor Adalyn had no idea what was about to happen to her. The nurse walked in with her tray of shots and I asked her to do Adalyn first so I could take her out in the hall afterwards so Landon could get his. The nurse went back out to get her vaccine,and when she came in, Adalyn said, "No, do Landon first!" haha I still don't think she even knew she was about to get a shot. She just overheard me say to do her first. I brought M&M's today so after her shot, I took her out in the hallway and she ate M&M's and talked about her boo boo. She said, " bandaid on boo boo under my pants". We brought a bottle for Landon b/c I knew that would calm him down after his shots. Just like any guy, give them food and they hush. Anyway, after his appointment, we headed straight to Pelham to have pizza at Jerry and Nancy's. Then we went to Tori's basketball game. It was 8th grade night and we really enjoyed watching her! So much so Landon fell asleep. Adalyn was so good. She clapped, ate 2 bags of popcorn, played with a little girl, and told me she needed to go potty and she did. =) After the game, the car ride home was not so pleasant. She was beyond tired and she really didn't want to leave Memaw and PaPaw so she cried pretty much the entire 25 minutes home. Ahhh. Now, I am wore out! I took lots of pictures of our busy day, but I am too lazy to upload them at the moment so this one is from my phone. My 2 favorite boys!

We are going to attempt to lay Landon down UNswaddled tonight. Pray it goes well!