First Easter

I really wanted to put together an Easter basket for Landon this year but all I could find to put in it was an Easter bib. Boring! So I fulfilled my need by filling Easter eggs with chocolates and creating a candy Easter basket to take to my in-laws house. In return I was given Easter eggs filled with chocolate (what comes around goes around! and in this case...yay!) and a herb garden. Fun! Landon got a pretty cool baseball piggy bank that will go great in his big boy room once he turns 1. My plan is a classic baseball theme. We'll see how that goes. Anyway, back to Easter. Of course I knew I wasn't going to get pictures of him on an egg hunt and I didn't really care to take him to see the Easter bunny so I thought I would take pictures of him in his super cute Easter outfit with the eggs that I dyed (for my own enjoyment). Welp here is what I learned. Use the plastic eggs when taking pictures with a baby! And here is why. I decided to take these adorable pictures right before we were headed out the door to church. Once I realized sitting with the eggs in his lap was not working because he just folds in half and I can't get a picture of his sweet little face, I decided to lay him down. Well now that he is a roller, there is no leaving him on his back. It's an instant roll in that case. So here we are, he has his Easter bib on and looking oh so sharp, and I brilliantly lay him on his belly in front of the eggs. I was picturing a cute curious baby looking at the eggs, touching the eggs. What I got was a teething baby trying to gnaw on the eggs in any way he can while producing mass amounts of slobber all over the place which in turn gets the dye on the eggs to come off...and there we have it, a baby with egg dye all over both cheeks and his Easter bib. Picture time was over. As I sadly go get him another bib (sad because no one got to see his "My first Easter" bib) I come back and find that in the 20 seconds I left to get him a new bib, he has spit up all over his nice collared shirt. 10 minutes before church starts and I'm back at ground zero with a naked baby with colored cheeks. Scrubbing and changing and hurrying about, we finally make it out the door. And for that, I will use plastic eggs with my next baby's first Easter. phew!

Easter Sunday was Landon's first trip to the nursery at the church we now go to. They gave us a pager after we tried to explain "care for Landon 101" in about 2 minutes. I think any new mom does this. Like these folks haven't cared for an infant before...So we are sitting in service with a death grip on this pager just convinced it's going to go off and we are going to have a screaming baby on our hands (probably because he has dye on his face and he didn't get to wear his Easter bib!). But to our surprise when we showed up to pick him up, he was asleep in the arms of someone we don't know. She said he was an angel (he's a show-off) and he slept the entire time. What a relief to know he was comfortable there and we were able to enjoy Easter service.

Enjoy the cuteness!
The first collage is from Easter. The rest are just because he is so darn cute! :)

4 months today

Happy 4 months Landon. You are so fun to see grow and learn. Here's to the next 4 months....And in 5 weeks, the shoes comes off. Hooray.

Trying new things is hard!

Landon is coming up on 4 months already! (This Saturday) and so I decided to buy rice cereal and see how he likes it. And these were the results:

As you can see we went from attempting to introduce the spoon right back to using the bottle. I poured the rice cereal into his bottle and went that route. After several attempts at rice cereal I have come to 2 conclusions....1. He is not ready to eat with a spoon and 2. He does NOT like the taste of rice cereal by itself but will eat it mixed in to his bottle. So I'm going to wait till his 4 month check up and ask his pediatrician recommendations. But it was fun getting these priceless expressions on camera in the mean time.

A few weeks ago we started putting him to bed without rocking him to sleep. So far it's been going pretty well. Well then we throw a curve ball in there. Today we decided to try putting him to bed without a swaddle. Mostly because the last week he has been waking up a TON in the middle of the night and a lot of times I find he has busted out of his swaddle and is awkwardly flailing his arms about. So we read that 3-4 months is about when you stop swaddling. He screams when we swaddle him so I figure he is trying to tell us this is soo for newborns and he has grown out of wanting to be swaddled. Welp...as of right now he is screaming and won't go to sleep. So through the grinding of my teeth to keep myself from rescuing him and rocking his little butt to sleep, I will leave you with this sweet picture of a baby who is excited about successfully rolling onto his tummy. Enjoy!

Rolly Polly

We have ourselves a little rolly polly here. Landon has mastered the art of rolling from back to tummy and boy is he on the move! Try changing a diaper when he knows he can move. Now we have to work on from tummy to back. I think it will be much easier when the shoes come off. He gets a little frustrated. They say babies usually go tummy to back....what a little rule breaker he is!

He is also eating 5-6oz of milk now. I've purchased some brown rice cereal but we haven't tried it yet. Once he bounced back from that nasty bronchiolitis it's like his tummy grew and he was eating more overnight. He is also very into grabbing things and putting them in his mouth. His little teether ring has now come out of the toy box. I feel like we need to get him real toys because he is so interested in them. The teether ring he likes has like 3 keys on it and so when he gets real excited he bats the thing around and for some reason when he bats one hand the other one automatically goes too. It's like they are in sync. And then he gets hit with the rings and throws them and then cries because he wants his toy back..."well you threw them!" He has found his shoes and I'm sure is trying to figure out how to get them OFF! And to top it off, we think there is a little tooth bud popping through on the top! I know...usually the bottoms come in first but I tell ya Landon has been anything but fitting the profile. He just does things his own way. Anyway I tried getting a picture of the little bud but he moves too much and I end up with a close up of his chin. Sooo for now just take my word and I'll work on getting a picture.

We are working on getting him to put himself to sleep. It's a work in progress for sure! Last night I fed him and laid him in his crib wide awake. He cried and cried for about 10 minutes until my husband went and put a pacie in his mouth. He cried a little more and eventually....silence! He did it! Cried himself to sleep. Although it breaks my heart listening to him cry and not running to his rescue, it really is good for us to let him become a little more independent.