Landon started crawling last Tuesday. He was going from his stomach to sitting and back to his stomach for the past week but wasn’t really going forward. On Sunday John said that he’d be crawling by the end of the week. Daddy knows! We were at Nonni and Poppa’s house changing his diaper when we let him go “free” for a bit. Just like that he crawled about 4 feet to the pistachios. We called Grandma and Grandpa Mac to facetime with them so they could see him. Landon had a blast crawling towards them around the house. He picked it up just like that. We had him stay up extra late until John got home from work so he could see. It was adorable, Landon crawled right up to him!
We officially started Landon on solids. We are doing a combined type of feeding using the Baby Led Weaning philosophy as well as mashed foods. Although we are pureeing it, we are keeping it on the thicker, chunky side as opposed to the runny side. When we hold most of the bowls upside down, the food isn’t going anywhere! The Baby-Led approach is giving him food that he can feed himself. This allows him to explore the foods and put them to his mouth as he pleases as well as teaches him to chew/mash than just swallow lessening the likelihood of choking. However, until they get it down it causes some gagging that John really isn’t fond of. Landon doesn’t seem to mind and we keep a good eye on him so we know he’s okay. We do want him to get more food than he takes in on his own in hopes of filling his belly more so he sleeps a tad longer, so we’ve added in the mashed food as well. He’s doing really well with it and seems to like it. So far he’s had mashed sweet potatoes, carrots, zucchini, broccoli, and apples and eaten/gnawed on chicken, avocado, green beans, summer squash, pears, banana, egg yolk, broccoli, and apples. It’s been fun introducing food but it’s also a lot more work than just nursing. When we say more work we mean very messy. It almost always requires an extra bath or close to it and we don’t even want to begin on the poo!
Landon had his first trip to Apple Hill. This is a tradition we always do in October. We drove all together with Shani’s family and It was fun to have him with us this year. Crazy to think last year we were pregnant with him. He loved the fresh apple cider and the small taste of pumpkin butter. It was a little crazy getting in and out of the car at each stop, but he did well and enjoyed the excitement of all the people. Usually we like to go when there is more fall colors, but the weather was absolutely gorgeous!
Since coming home from Hawaii John officially started his “new” job at Napa. He was just thrown into the mix like he had been working there for the past couple years, which he has but in a different type of setting. He’s definitely keeping busy with the different but same type of work load. He finally had his first Friday off from work on his 4/10 schedule. This allowed a lot of Daddy and Landon time which was a change for the both of them. Landon was a bit on the fussy side that day making it quite the challenge for John. Both survived but were probably ready for the day to be over. It doesn’t help that Landon wasn’t taking the bottle well and was super tired. Soon they will get their flow down and look forward to the exciting time they have together. Although Shani wasn't very excited about it, John enjoyed watching Simpson's with Landon.
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