Weekend Recap, Part I

What a weekend! Landon went to 4 parties, including his own.

First ride in Daddy's car with the seat forward!

Party #1 was Billy and Alissa's engagement party. The light outside was perfect and I got some great photos of "the Don" in the leaves.

More to come soon!
~L

On His Feet

Only one pic at the current time to post, but just wanted to jot down Landon has been doing the following things for the past week:

• Walking more than crawling
  
• Using his bum to go down stairs while using the stair rails to lower himself


• Saying "no, no, mama, dada, uh oh, ei, ei and dn dn, which I *think* could be his way of saying Landon??"


• Can do a full pivot while standing


• Can get self into a standing position without using something else to pull himself up with. He sort of does a summo wrestler's squat to get up.


• We also said "bye, bye" to bottles. Yippee!

He changes so much each day, I honestly can't keep up.

One Year Old Today

I can barely believe my once tiny baby is one year old today! How time flies. How challenging parenthood can be. How happy we are to have such an amazing little person in our lives and how good it feels to love this much.

I'll never forget Wednesday, January 31, 2007 for the rest of my life. I was at the doctor for a routine visit and I found out I was pregnant. 8.5 months later Landon was born one week overdue after he put me through a grueling 24 hours in labor. Doesn't matter; as I always say, he is a dream come true.

We celebrated with Grandpa Steve and Grandma Mary Ann. They brought Landon a cake all for himself and he LOOVED the frosting. Didn't care much for the cake, but couldn't get enough of the sugary stuff; obviously my child.

Happy Birthday to me!

First wish:
Examining the cake:


The fun begins!



Thirsty!

Very happy!

Lots of hugs and kisses to all the grandparents, family and friends for all their calls, emails, songs and love.
xoxo,

Lindsay, Stephen and Landon

This was me, then.

This time last year, I was 3 days overdue and just about to go ring shopping with Shelby. That night my water broke.

How life changes in one year.

Safe to say I'm feeling pretty nostalgic today.

Oldie But Goodie

Taken in late July. How cute is my kid?


In other news, this has not been the best few days for Landon. He's been crying, and crying and crying . . . . Last night he cried from 2 am to 4 am, and then I had to get up at 5 am! Literally, he falls asleep in my arms and the minute I put him down in the crib he is hysterical. What gives Lando??

In fun news, his latest game is pushing the dining room chairs about the house and banging them into everything and anything. I used to be very precious about all my furniture. How a baby changes this perspective!

He also crawls very fast, sometimes so fast he flips himself over and wonk! his head hits the floor. Poor little chap, it happened about 5 times on Saturday.

More later.

Beach Baby

For the past twenty+ years (literally ever since Kim and I ate 10lb of raw clams on the CT shoreline between the two of us), I have been lucky enough to be invited to the annual beach vacation of my best friend's family. It's a non-stop week of pure gluttony and nothing at all compares to it. It's also a bittersweet vacation as well as it marks the end of summer to our teacher mothers and the minute it is over, we start looking forward to next year.

This year was extra special because we were able to bring along Landon to share in the grand tradition. It was also superb for me because I got to eat cherrystones AND drink sangria - YUM. This year has been so busy with me going back to work, Steve making a career change and us in between homes, that life at home is just one giant race. Thus, it was incredibly meaningful for us to be able to settle down for less than 24 hours and just enjoy one another and Landon, who is becoming more and more a little person by the day.

It was a long and exaggerated trip to Rhode Island, complicated by a new car seat installation issue, but we finally made it! My two favorite guys:

Nothin' like a madras sun hat to make a dude look cute!


Walking to the beach. Landon loves being on shoulders. Let's face it, with Steve and I as his parents, he's not up this high on a daily basis!


Unfortunately, the first time Landon felt the water it was not a grand success. He loves the bath, but this was certainly much colder!


And of course he needed his mommy after . . .


and Daddy too!


Back at the house he had loads of fun pulling himself up on everything and anything:


Very proud of himself!


Catching some evening rays with Aunt Kim:

Next day at the beach . . . never one to sit still, Landon attemp standing up in the tent!

And finally a nap!

Just think, next year he'll be walking (no, running) and talking. FUN!

Landon @ 10 Months

I can't believe another month has gone by. It seems like just yesterday we brought our not so little little baby home from the hospital and now he is less than two months away from being one! Specificially he is:

• sleeping the night off and on (literally one week he sleeps, another he doesn't)



• is still 20lb, but has grown to (need to fill in)



• likes eating table foods for dinner such as pieced up chicken, pasta and bread. He really enjoys feeding himself!



• is constantly pulling himself up on everything and anything.



• tantrums when he doesn't like the position he is in



• has 5 teeth



• will not sit still to be changed



• continuously babbles "mama, dada, la, da, ahh, ehh" and lots of other noises, but no real words yet



• fits into 12-18 month clothing presently



• loves toys that make a shaking sound



• enjoys playing with the laundry basket



• walks from furniture to furniture



• does not like Stage 3 meals

• loves to hiss like a snake. We sing, "Lannndon the snake!" to him.
  


• still crawling like a silly monkey, although from time to time he crawls like a normal baby too.



• has no fear



• is eyeing the stairs

• is getting quite attached to me, in particular. Last week when I came home I put my things down and greeted Chloe first before picking him up and he started to cry in anticipation. He also loves to be held by me when he is cranky and to put his head on my shoulder.