8 Months

8 months old

Landon is now 8 months old!  He's staying pretty steady at 19lbs 12oz.  Not sure of his length...we'll have to get that measurement soon because it seems like he really stretched out.  He is a crawling machine and will follow us around the house.  It's cute because he starts huffing and puffing if it's been a long travel.  He's pulling himself up onto things as well.  We are trying to encourage the crawling for as long as possible (Mommy is really big into the cross-crawl patterning--it helps nervous system develop) and hoping to hold off walking for a few months at least.  His favorite crawling destinations (to our endless frustration) is a plant in our living room, trashcan near our desk, and Mochi's water and food bowls.  We haven't really baby-proofed our house at all but definitely need to make a few more changes for him.  We love watching his little brain work and figure things out.  Such a cute age.  

We think he's also trying to get his upper teeth in as he's chewing on everything again.  His sleep continues to be broken up making life a little difficult on us.  We are trying to keep with the mantra "this too shall pass."  We are keeping our fingers crossed!  Food is going much better.  He's taking in much more at each meal.  His favorites are sweet potato, zucchini, and pears.  He  loves his apple sauce and prunes too.  We usually mix both in with liver to help him get it down.  We don't promote/agree with rice cereal nor fortified iron products so we are giving him the real deal to get his iron.  Yes, we are bad and haven't eaten the liver ourselves, but when it's mixed with his apple sauce and prunes or sweet potatoes he gives us an open mouth for another spoonful!  Maybe we'll each take the bullet sometime and try for the sake of supporting our son.

One day he'll have is own set of real binoculars

Yummy carrot

We took a family getaway to Mendocino a couple weekends ago.  This was a birthday present for Shani from John because she loves visiting the North Coast area.  Although Landon has been pretty good in his carseat, we were pushing it with the 4+ hour drive.  He would arch his back and scream loudly, driving us nuts.  We stayed at this B&B (minus the second B in our minds) which was walking distance from the cute downtown area.  The sky was beautiful and clear when we walked down to get coffee and breakfast, then when we walked out of the coffee shop it was foggy and stayed that way for the rest of the weekend.  The last time we were there it was breezy, but absolutely beautiful.  This was a bummer, but we still had a great time.  John was excited that "Shani's birthday weekend" allowed for him to hit North Coast Brewing Co, Anderson Valley Brewing Co, and Russian River Brewing Co.  He also "allowed" one stop at a winery for Shani :-)  John quickly tasted some heavy beers and was quite displeased with the winding roads/Shani's driving-- he was almost as unhappy as Landon to be in the car!  Although we had a wonderful trip, it made the weekend go by much too quickly and we felt we could have used another day to recover.

Fan blowing Lando's hair

Sword fight

First taste of ice cream (he won't have more for a long while!)

Big boy sitting at the bar

Anderson Vally Brewing Company

We made another Apple Hill trip with John's family this past weekend.  The weather was very warm, much warmer than we like while up there.  We enjoy the brisk weather at Apple Hill to help get us in the fall mood.  It was a very beautiful day though and we bumped it to some favorite friends of ours which was a lot of fun.  Can anyone go to Apple Hill during the peak season and not see someone they know?  What a fun place!

Landon, Morgan, and Grandma Mac

 

 

Landon and Grandma Mac