9 Months

 

Landon's now been on the outside for as long as he was brewing on the inside.  Our little man turned 9 months last week.  As always, how the time flies.  He is weighing in at 20 lbs 2 oz but definitely slowing down.  Although he's such a baby still, he is getting to be so big.  He loves crawling everywhere and standing along anything he can pull himself up on.  Getting down from standing had been the issue for a bit, but now he's mastered that as well.  When he wakes up from naps and during the night (yes he's doing this frequently still) we find him standing at the end of the crib staring at the door.  After naps he's usually talking and happy so it's cute when we open up the door to his greetings.  Sometimes he'll even attempt a mini jump while holding onto the crib.  We think the crib needs to get lowered one more because one of these times he might jump and fly over the edge. 

Landon loves Mochi

 

 

Landon fell asleep reading books with Daddy

So cozy and warm

Fall leaves

As for food, he's been eating meat more frequently now.  Chicken, beef, and pork.  We chop it up for him pretty good and he will feed himself, although most of it still ends up on the floor.  He also likes his plain yogurt (from goat's milk) with either apples or pears.  We aren't planning on raising him dairy-free but we are definitely going to minimize his intake of cow's milk/products.  If we can easily replace with goat's milk we will.  Hopefully we can find a local person who can provide us with real goat's milk and maybe one day have one of our own.  That's Shani's far-fetched dream (no matter how much work it would be).  We tried peas but he doesn't seem to care too much for them, so we'll give it another try in a little bit.  He just loves his winter squash so much and with our wonderful farmers markets around here we can't help but continue to make that for him.  Most of the time when he's eating, we'll take a bite for ourselves.  Homemade food is much more appetizing than the jarred stuff--there is no comparison!

As most of you know, we've been struggling to get more sleep.  It's starting to wear us pretty thin.  Between getting up every 2 hours, sometimes being up for an hour, and then getting up early for work, we are going a little bonkers.  If we are feeling this crazy, we can only imagine how our little guy must feel.  We (Shani hopes) continue to feel that it's his teeth.  He got his bottom two over 2 months ago now and has really been working on his top ones.  Well finally, on Friday, his left top one poked through.  We pray that now things start changing and we get some longer stretches.  Until then we are continually praying for patience.

Landon had a play-date with his fellow Cal Poly friends.  Well, at least us moms are Cal Poly friends...we all secretly hope our kids will be too??  We had a great time hanging out at the park.  The big boys loved all the stuff they could play on and the little ones loved crawling around the squishy ground.  The swings were a big hit as well.  We love all getting together, but sometimes is hard to do with all of our crazy work schedules.  Soon the score will be even with three boys and three girls, but until Kallie has her little one it was the 2 big boys, Landon, and his 2 girlfriends.

Sophia and Landon

Sophia, Lucas, and Colton

Sophia

Claire

 

Colton and Lucas

Landon loves the swings

 

Claire, Lucas, Sophia, Colton, Landon

Lastly, our little Lando had his first official cold.  He's had little sniffles in the past, but this time it was definitely a "real" cold.  Thankfully no fever, but he looked so sad.  His eyes were watering, nose was snotty, runny, and stuffy, and he had a cough.  Sleep has been even worse because he couldn't breathe and would wake himself up.  Poor little guy.  Anyway, not that you want to see it, but we figured we'd give you a wonderful, snotty Landon picture for you to enjoy!