11 Months

According to Aviva Jill Romm, MD in her book Naturally Healthy Babies and Children, "Fever has another effect that often goes unnoticed. When children recover from a fever, they often demonstrate new skills and abilities.  It is as if the heat of the fever served as a motivating developmental force."  This book has been the go-to book for Shani when it comes to helping Landon with many different things.  It's right up her alley with all natural ways (mainly herbal and homeopathic remedies) to stay or get healthy.  Although she has heard that with a fever/sickness comes a jump in development from another source, it was reading it again after Landon was sick last week that she realized that it has definitely held true for him.

Our sick boy

For the past week and a half Landon has been fighting quite the bug.  He had a few nights of low-grade fever and several days of very warm temperatures.  He had the snotty-runny nose, cough, fussiness, even worse sleep, and trouble breathing.  We were definitely ready to be out of it and I'm sure he was too!  As he's beat his bug this past week we've noticed quite the change in our little guy. 

Here are some of the things going on with Landon lately:

• Turned 11 months on Saturday!  
• Four teeth on top and just the two on bottom.  
• Weighing 21 lbs 1oz and 30.5 inches long
• Standing on his own for about 5 seconds
• Expressive signing: milk, more, light (his favorite), dog/Mochi, possibly all-done
• Can clap and wave on prompting (don't even have to do the motion first)
• Throwing toys/balls for Mochi,offering her a bone
• Points to people in pictures (mom, dad, Nonni, Papa, Uncle Chris, cousin Morgan)
• Gives high fives, kisses
• Feeding himself well and eating larger portions (no more purees)
• The Biggest of All: 2 nights in a row he's put his head down and fallen asleep in his crib by himself (with some supervision from mommy or daddy, but no holding and no crying).  Also with this he's giving us 4 hour stretches of sleep and only nursing twice/night.  Yay!