23 Weeks!

Our little man and I have had a busy week.  We have been out and about alot more and actually meeting some other little families with babies Landon's age.  We met one Mom with a baby a week older than Landon and another Mom with a baby born a few weeks after Landon.  We also met a lady with triplets that are 7.5 months, but adjusted age just about 6 months! So it is fun to see how different all the babies are even though they are the same age!  Landon, my chunky monkey, looks like a giant compared to the others.  He is still short, but he is just THICK.   I am kind of beginning to understand why people always say "oh he is a healthy boy" or "wow he is so big for 5 months"!   We went to a coffee group for Mom's last Friday and that was alot of fun.  It was at a place called Discovery Teas, it is rather hippy and reminds me alot of Boulder! We also went on our first walk around Colonial Williamsburg.  We start on D.O.G. street (Duke of Gloucester) and walk a loop around CW.  We walked just about 3.5 miles yesterday.  We got to see all the people in Costume, lots of animals, and LOTS of tourists.  We were a pretty noticeable group with about 7 Mom's with jogging strollers and then add in the triplets!!  So we will try to go back to that since it is weekly.  It will be nicer in the fall when it cools down a bit as well...we were all hot and sweaty when we got done, including the kids! 

Colonial Williamsburg by the William and Mary Campus Bookstore

Ready for our walk!

This week Landon:

• You have started rolling alot more.  You roll from belly to back almost every time I put you on your belly! Now we need to work on rolling from back to belly!
• You are starting to sleep without your sleep suit, so far it is going ok.  You wake up more frequently, but so far are able to put yourself back to sleep.  Watching you in your sleep sack is kind of funny since you are have more freedom to move and roll.  I think you want to be a side sleeper but everytime you fall asleep on your side you jerk and fall back on your back.  It of course wakes you up, so it was sad and funny all at the same time.  Eventually you just gave up and slept on your back.  
• You had some sort of stomach bug (I think) briefly last night or you just ate too much, hard to tell.  I put you to bed just like normal but you kept making this strange sound and when I started watching on the monitor  I realized you were "spitting up".  Well I went up to see and it turns out you had thrown up ALL over yourself and crib.  So I got you up and changed your sheets and started getting you dressed in new jammies and a sleep sack and then you puked again! It was so sad.   So after a few calls to my Mom and the on call Dr., they said to just make you comfortable and hopefully you could go back to sleep, since you didn't have a fever. You puked for about two hours, although the last 30 minutes were spent dry heaving, poor baby.  I had you sleep in our room in your rock n' play so I could keep an eye on you.  You fell asleep in my arms and I finally put your down around 10:30, mostly because I couldn't hold your chubbiness up any more! You woke up around 4 ready to eat just like always and nursed.  I decided since it had been 6 hours since you had puked, I put you back in your crib since I could tell you were a bit restless in your rock n play.  You slept until around 8:45 and so far seem ok today.  We are going to your new Dr. anyway today just to get introduced and get your reflux medication checked, so I guess it was good timing on all of your pukiness since we were going to the Dr. anyway!   Not fun for either of us little man, but I am happy you seem to be feeling better. 
• You have been a champion baby with going out lately, even in the heat.  This week was the first time I put you in a cart when we went to get flowers and dirt!  I got your cart cover and strapped you in.  You got tired after a bit, which caused you to lean, but overall you thought it was great!  We will be trying this again today when we grocery shop since it is just us and I we don't have enough room in the cart with the carrier!  

First time in the cart!

Flowers and such! 

•  Cloth diapering continues to go well so far.  I am really liking it, minus your new poops because of solid foods.  We won't get too detailed, but they stink and make it harder to get off the diaper.  Thank goodness for our toilet sprayer on the way! I have finally figured out that in the late afternoon I can put the diapers on the porch and let them get some sun to bleach any stains!

A cute butt and cloth diapers on our porch!

Finally, I leave you with a picture of my teething baby.  We still don't have any teeth, which is unfortunate because every few days he is a big fussy mess and chewing on everything...including my knee =).  He is our "special" child ha ha.

 Until next week!

22 Weeks!

Each week Landon learns so many new things; each day really he seems to absorb something new and it is pretty interesting to watch! We haven't been too terribly busy this past week.   Just trying to get everything unpacked and organized.  It is official that all three of us have WAY TOO MUCH STUFF.  When we move again once we buy another house, we are doing some serious downsizing so we don't have to pack and move so many things by ourselves!

This week Landon:

• You learned to blow raspberries with your spit.   It is pretty funny, but also pretty gross.  I say gross because when you spit up and you have any leftovers you tend to blow raspberries with that and let me tell you, no one likes to see spit-up raspberries.  Not to mention you spit all over everyone and everything! 
• You constantly have your hands in your mouth.  At night when you can't sleep or are having problems trying to stay asleep you bring your thumb and index finger to your mouth and suck on them.  You try to bring everything to your mouth these days.  Even when I am changing your diaper you grab my arm and try to bring it to your mouth...it is rather funny.  
• You pull on EVERYTHING.  You pull on my shirt, my necklace, my hair (OW), your clothes, toys, blankets, etc.  You are gaining such good control with grabbing on to things and bringing them up to your mouth!
• You have started really screeching and squeaking this past week.  I thought you were doing it before, but it seems to have just gotten higher and louder!  During facetime with my Mom the other day she got a taste of it and she said it sounds like he scares himself, but he just loves to do it.  In the morning when he wakes up in his crib that is what I hear.  At a bbq this past weekend, he made that sound for hours when people talked to him...apparently he loves to have conversations!
• You haven't been rolling as much lately.  We know you can do it, but you just seem to be a bit lazy in the movement department.  You are pretty content to just stay on your back and play with your toys.  
• You have been sleeping in your crib for just about a week! It has gone surprisingly well.  Most nights you are up once, but the time varies a bit more than before.  Your naps are a bit more difficult in the crib.  Sometimes it is back to your usual 30-45 minutes, but others you sleep for 2-2.5 hours.  So I think we are still figuring that out.  Next to go your magic merlin sleep suit! You are just about ready to outgrow it and I don't really want to buy another one!
• You have been in cloth diapers the last 3 days!  So far so good, with one minor incident of poop leakage...eww.  We still put you in disposables when we go out and at night...for now it just seems easier! 
• For the biggest news-you can sit unassisted for about 10-20 seconds! I think it helps that you have a big cloth diaper butt now that makes it easier to balance, but you have improved so much on this skill just in the past week! Good job little man =)

Here are some pictures from the week! Enjoy =)

Showing off his chunky thigh rolls

Mummy arms while sleeping lol...

Part of Landon's room

Other part of Landon's room (don't mind the ghetto curtains at the moment =))

5 months old on the 9th!  CRAZY.

His big open mouth smile =)

 Until next week =)

21 Weeks!

Our wee little man is 21 weeks old, that means he is ALMOST 5 months old! We have been busy getting acquainted with the Williamsburg area in Virginia.  We are slowly getting to know our way around.  We have been out exploring the various shopping areas, driving around on the Colonial National Highway, and out by the James River.  Honestly, Landon and I have yet to leave Williamsburg.  Perhaps this weekend, we will venture down to Yorktown to try out some of their beaches! 

In the past week, we have just been surviving on whatever we brought with us directly from Tennessee.  I think we are all a bit tired of sleeping on the floor/air mattress.  I even think Landon is finally ready to get out of his rock n play sleeper and into his crib!  So we are all REALLY looking forward to getting our things.  Mostly, so Landon has more things to do.  With him being extra alert these days, he gets bored pretty easily of sitting in his bumbo or hanging out on his play mat!  Thankfully, we have our new TV, thanks Dad =), that keeps us pretty occupied! We have the most basic cable we could get and a ROKU, so we at least have some evening entertainment besides staring at each other ha ha. 

Last weekend, we checked out our neighborhood pool.  It was pretty nice, but we found out we do have to have a membership (everything costs money here)!  Luckily, Donna is awesome, and we are getting that as our house warming present, thanks Donna.  =).    Here is Mr. Landon napping at the pool in the shade after about 20 minutes in the pool:

We still need to get him his own little floaty now that we know they allow those types of things in the pool!  We will probably be there every few days to break up what we do without trying to spend money!

During our exploring one day, we tried to take Rusty to the only dog park in Williamsburg, but found out we have to pay to be a member of the park!?  Granted, it is only $27/year to use the dog park and whatever else at the park, but still!  With Logan projected to be training a good portion of this year, I don't think I can safely take Landon and Rusty to a dog park without worrying about one of them! Instead of joining that day, the park ranger recommended taking Rusty swimming on the James River; what a BIG river! It was warm when I walked into it, a little dirty, aaaannndddd a bit smelly.  However, it was fun for Rusty and us to get out and see it! I am not too sure I would go floating on a raft on it like some people we saw, but for a dog, it is perfect =).

We have been going out to lunch/dinner constantly! I think we can all agree we are soooo tired of eating out.  Poor little Landon has been a trooper, but he thinks that every time we get to a restaurant he needs out of his car seat!  I can't wait until he can sit in a highchair! I think he will love it and it will be a nice break for us from having to hold him and play pass the baby!

We started solids with Peanut this week! He really seems to love them.  So far we have tried sweet potatoes and avocados.  I think he enjoys the avocados more!  I will try sweet potatoes in a few days again to see if they go a bit better.  He opens his mouth wide for the avocados, but not so much for the sweet potatoes!  Here are some pictures of his first meal!  Bananas, squash, and apples are next up on the list!

Landon also celebrated his first 4th of July yesterday! We didn't do anything super patriotic, in fact this was the first year we didn't even go watch fireworks together! We decided with 100 degree temperatures, an already cranky teething baby, the crowds, and really have no idea where we can go to watch the fireworks that dinner out with Landon's cute little outfit was all we needed to do!  Here are some pictures of our little boy on his first fourth of July!

His newest face ha ha....it cracks me up! He was making this face the entire time we were grocery shopping and I was hoping we weren't going to have a major melt down, but he would make it and then laugh...typical lol.

He knows the 4th of July is Mommy's favorite holiday =)

We are starting our full time cloth diapering this week! I am excited, but I also need to look into how to wash cloth diapers with hard water.  We have some extremely hard water here in Williamsburg and I know that it will be a problem and ruin the diapers if I don't figure it out!   Peanut is also transitioning to his crib-pray for us! Last night he slept from 7:30-6 AM in his Rock n play....go Landon! I did end up going to check on him to make sure he was ok ha ha...I will need to stop doing that because he woke up shortly after I checked on him! So stay tuned for an update on cloth diapering full time and a crib transition!

Finally, our weekly video!  Landon is INCREDIBLY ticklish.   His chin, underarms, ribs, belly, upper thighs, feet, and even his butt make him laugh when you tickle them.  It is pretty darn cute...so here he is last night before his bath just laughing away!

Until next week-hopefully I will have some pictures of our house with stuff in it!

20 Weeks!

Sorry for the few days of delay, but here we are officially at 20 weeks! It is weird thinking that at 20 weeks I was half way through my pregnancy and now Landon is 20 weeks!

He has been such an amazing little boy the last few weeks with all the moving stuff!  Now that we are in our house in Virginia, we are trying to settle back into a routine.  I feel he hasn't been napping well the past week since we have had movers, loaders, car rides, errands to get stuff that we need until the rest of our stuff gets here this week.  He still takes between 1.5-2 hour naps twice a day if we are home.  Yesterday, we let him sleep for 3 hours and then woke him up before we went to dinner.  We are having to figure out how the time change works with bed time and slowly adjust him back an hour so we are putting him down at 7:30, not 8:30 like we have been.  I think each day I will just move it back 10-15 minutes until we get back to 7:30 as his new normal.

We are having a bit of a tough time getting settled in Virginia.  Between the extra dirty house (we know it's dirty, even if Logan comments on it) and the bug issue...it is not feeling much like home!   We are trying to get the owners to cover both a cleaning service and an initial bug treatment, but so far we aren't having much luck even talking with the property manager.  There are also other things in the house that need to be fixed and I am guessing we won't have an easy time with that either.

The area itself seems very nice, it's just unfortunate our house is a bit of a dump.  We really like the layout and it would be perfect if the owners/previous tenants had kept it up.

I will leave you with a few pictures from our drive!

View from the backseat

Re-acquainting himself with his bumbo! 

Dealing with his teething on the drive!

Until next week!  Next week will be fun since he will be trying out his first solid foods today!  =)

19 Weeks

Our wee little man is 19 weeks!  This is his last week in the teens!

We have been insanely busy this week, so there isn't much to update on!

We are currently listening to the packers move and tape boxes packing our little life! It is so interesting to see what the house looks like with all of our stuff in boxes and off the walls.  I will try to take some pictures of the rooms tonight after they leave as it stands after the first day!

This week Landon you:

• Have learned to screech in a high voice so we sound like we are living with a huge bird...let me tell you it is super funny, but rather annoying ha ha.  

• Found your feet last weekend and since then you have been in heaven having your own play toy on your body!  Every time I change your diaper it is a challenge to get you to let go of your feet!

 

• Are getting better and better at sitting up, we work on it every day! I think you are going to be so pleased once you can do it by yourself!

• Tummy time is still your least favorite, but you put up with it especially now that you have been working on your rolling! I put you down there and you just generally roll on over....so not a lot of tummy time happening for you! It is like you say ha Mom...look I can just roll on over and I don't have to do any of this crap on my tummy =).
• We think you are working on getting some teeth! You have been kind of cranky in the afternoons and early evenings.  You chew on your hands and pretty much anything we put in front of you.  You really enjoy my knuckles since they are more firm than your chubby little hand!
• Are still doing a great job at night! You still go to bed around 7:30, although if you are super fussy I put you down a bit early.  The last two nights you have slept until closer to 5 AM...so I think we are making progress! You still wake up between 7:30-8:30 AM, most days.  There is the occasional day you wake up at 6 AM and I leave you to talk to yourself in your room and you eventually go back to sleep without much fuss involved!
• Are still doing great with napping, at least at home.  Napping while we are out is actually becoming more difficult since you refuse to go to sleep and stay asleep if I get you out of the car.  So that is going to be a challenge will all this moving business going on! Either way-I am still so proud of your napping for 1.5-2 hours for at least two naps a day!
• Are now a professional splasher in the bathtub and still love bath time so much! Will try to get a video in the next few days! 
• You have been rolling more the last few days.  My favorite (and most disgusting) memory of you rolling was you burped and puked and then promptly rolled over ha ha...it was amusing!

Until next week-our first post from Virginia!

18 Weeks!

Our little man is officially just over 4 months old! I feel like the last four months have flown by.  Logan and I were looking at the pictures from when Landon was born and we both agree it seemed like a life time ago.  The first month was a giant blur.  I can barely remember much of it besides being in pain.  The second month brings sad memories of an upset Landon because of his colic and reflux.  The third month our happy little man began to appear with full smiles, the departure of his colic, and his rolling, and now here we are in month four! I can't wait to see what this month will bring with him.  He is already so much fun, I can't imagine what joy he will bring to our lives this month! 

Landon this week:

• You started sleeping in your own room! We kicked you out last Friday and it was probably the best decision we have made in regards to your sleep since we brought you home! The first night you went to sleep in your own room (still in your Rock n' Play) and only woke up at 3:30 to eat and then slept until 7:45.  We were shocked! So far you have kept up this trend and are sleeping like a champ in your own room!  We find the key to your sleep is the constant rain sounds and a super dark room!  I think between your Dad and Rusty, they were keeping you up at night.  We are working on weaning your last night feeding so we can hopefully officially have a sleeping through the night baby.  My body thanks you for actually going back to sleeping better than you have ever =).  
• You have also started taking 1.5-2.5 hour long naps! The first few times you did this, once again in your room, I thought it was a fluke!  Now when you get a bit cranky and start to whine, I scoop you up, put you in your sleep suit, turn on the white noise, close your blinds, and tell you it is nap time and that I love you, put you in your bed, a few good night kisses, and walk out of the room.  95% of the time you are asleep within a few minutes! Once again...shocking turn around from our only 30 minute napper!  You don't even like to sleep in your swing anymore, so you have made some big changes in the past week!
• You also had your four month Dr. appointment this week!  You weighed in at 16 lbs 7 oz (80%), 24.5 inches long (30%), and your head is the 40th %.  So to all of those who think your head is big....wrong lol.  I think it is those cheeks that make you look like you have a big head!  The Dr. said you are doing wonderfully.  She gave us the go ahead for solid foods, but we are going to wait until you are closer to 5 months and we are in Virginia to start.  We want to make sure we are settled and not having any more drastic changes before we start anything new with you! We are skipping the rice and oatmeal and going straight to the veggies and fruit, although the Dr. did say we should give you some oatmeal around 6 months to make sure you aren't allergic to grains/oats.  

• You visited your friend Carson again this past week!  You look pretty big next to him, but he looks to be not too much shorter than you! Sorry you are kind of shrimpy, thanks to Mommy!

 

• You went swimming again this past weekend but the pool was much colder and you were not so impressed.  So here is a picture of you post swimming in a much happier mood!

•  Your Daddy left again this week to move to Virginia! We are left here for the next two weeks to tie up the loose ends here in Tennessee! We are trying desperately to get our house rented.  We had a person come look yesterday, so we will see if they come back! Fingers crossed.  In addition to trying to rent the house, we are working on getting everything ready for the movers.  You have been very patient about not getting a ton of attention while Mommy runs around the house cleaning and organizing things.  Here you are yesterday in your little seat, but with a new twist. Anything you can grab you love these days!

Naked boys! Logan's last day home before he left.

Finally, I leave you with a video of trying to get Landon to laugh! Once again-I apologize because of how DUMB I sound, but he apparently likes to laugh at my cost lol...

 Until next week!

17 weeks!

This week Landon is 17 weeks old! That means in two days we have a four month old! That also means in a few weeks last year at this time we found out about our wee little baby! It amazes me how fast time goes.

I am on my phone doing this since our Internet is out, so this might be kind of short!

This week Landon you:

Have continues to be a crappy sleeper. We had a few good nights but you have now started waking back up after I nurse you back to sleep. So be prepared little dude, once we get settled in Virginia and we get you used to your own room and crib, the sleep training begins. This Mommy really could use a full nights sleep and so could you!  You have regressed on being able to put your self to sleep and back to sleep.  You seem to either need some sort of movement or to nurse....not really ideal.  Naps are still a challenge unless you sleep in the swing.  Some days I just give in because I am too tired to fight you to go to sleep for 45 minutes, for you only to sleep for 30!

The cloth diapers are on their way! We took the plunge and ordered twelve of the Bum genius elemental all in ones! I am super excited, your Dad may feel otherwise after watching his reaction to washing out his first poopy diaper and continually saying I wasn't prepared for this ha ha. We still need to get a toilette sprayer since I am convinced you have toxic poop and it stains the diaper if we don't wash it off before the wash! Thank goodness for the awesome power of the sun to bleach It back to white! We are also going to put up a clothes line once we move also!! We might just have to wait until Gigi and Aunt Rere come to help us ha ha!

You hit another major milestone just today! You rolled from back to belly, now you are not safe on any surface! I have a few pictures of this one, but still no video!

We have also visited your little friends in the past few weeks. You look like a giant compared to Carson and Holden but those little ones are on your tail already weighing in at 11 pounds at 5 weeks!

You also started riding in the big stroller for short walks! You are getting so big I can hardly believe it! Don't worry, I move the big cover and make sure he isn't in the sun when we walk!

You are slowly out growing your swing and are looking a tad ridiculous in it, but you still love it. We do have to buckle you in now because you are so squirmy! I am hoping we can get another month or so out of it, but we shall see! I know the weight limit doesn't come until 25 lbs, which is standard for most swings!

Here is one movie I took this week of trying to make Landon show off his new gurgle sound!

Until next week!