Landon - Month 7

Landon is now 7 months old.

In the last month...
- He weighs 17lbs 2oz (25th percentile) and is 26.5" long (30th percentile).

- He still rocks back and forth on his hands and knees non-stop...unless he decides he wants to be on his hands and toes, that is. He does a "bridge" kind of movement...we're not sure what that's about.

- He pulls himself up on things to stand (if they're the right height and have an edge that he can grab). He doesn't yet understand the concept of holding on once he gets there, but we're working on that.

 

- Landon seems to want to crawl - we don't encourage it, as we know we're in for it once he realizes his ability to be mobile. ;)  He's getting close though. So far he can spin himself around and scoot backwards, and just a few days ago he started moving forward in his own way. It is kind of a crawl/scoot/army crawl/frog hop type of movement.

He started at the top (far left) of the blanket.

- We've introduced a couple of foods to Landon this month: rice cereal, bananas and applesauce. He LOVES food! He scarfs it right down. Usually he leans as far forward as he can with his legs moving as fast as they can and his little hands constantly twirling around and around as if he is trying to signal to us "MORE! MORE!" and we aren't feeding him fast enough. Sometimes he lets us feed him, and other times he wants to feed himself (which tend to make for slightly messier dining experiences).

His first experience with bananas was a fun one. He enjoyed his first 5 bites, but then all of a sudden he realized it was the most awful thing in the world. Obviously, I was right there capturing the special moment (as any good mother would be). ;-)

- He waves hi and bye-bye (sometimes) - he only cooperates as our little circus monkey about 62% of the time.

- For some reason, Landon has taken to grunting these days. Apparently it's a sound that he likes (however embarrassing it is for us when in public)! 

- Landon's first Halloween costume was a monkey. He had a great time trick-or-treating with his friends, Addison and Kaylee, in his cousin, Jake's, costume.

 

- He was a great help with Daniel's recovery from knee surgery.

Landon's running the machine for Daddy.

 - He's getting better and better overnight! He usually goes to sleep around 7pm, and he wakes up around 8am. (Yes, we do know how lucky we are, and we appreciate every full night of sleep!)

What a fun month...and we have a feeling there's a lot more to come in the next couple months (yikes)!