Self Feeding

Landon has recently learned to place food into his mouth himself. Here are some examples from today and yesterday. He loves eating “crunchies” but we normally don’t give him any until he finishes his dinner.

 

Kleenex As a Toy

Funny thing about Landon: No matter how many toys he’s surrounded with, he’d always rather play with something that isn’t meant to be a toy. Here he is this past Thursday pulling out each and every Kleenex in the box, one at a time. A few more photos of this can be seen in the October photo album.

Kleenex October 2008

Kleenex October 2008

19 Pounds

Landon weighed in at 19 pounds today. For reference, here he is at 18 pounds, 17 pounds, 16 pounds, 15 pounds and 14 pounds. He’s starting to eat more of what we eat so we can all have family dinners together at the same time. Just one more pound until he’s ready for a new, larger, front-facing car seat. He’s getting pretty big for the one he’s in now, which is supposed to last until 22 pounds. Click the photo below to see a larger version.

19 Pounds Oct 2008

19 Pounds Oct 2008

October 2008 Photo Gallery

The October album is here!  2008

Laughing

Since Landon loves getting comments on his blog and since we already have 5 comments from yesterday’s post, we thought we’d reward his fans with a second posting this weekend. Here is a 21 second movie of Landon cracking up after his lunch today. Landon thinks sneezes are the funniest thing in the world. For reference, here is his last laughing movie from back when he was 4 months old.

Chasing the Rug

Last Sunday Landon decided it would be fun to chase the a rug in our kitchen. The rug was pretty fast but Landon eventually caught it. See for yourself in the 56 second movie above.

Grandparents in Town

Landon had a lot of visitors in town this weekend. Grandparents in from the east coast. Aunts and Uncles from nearby San Francisco. Here is a 3 minute and 15 second movie showing some of the highlights from the weekend.

9 Months Old

Landon is 9 months old today (8 months gestational age). He’s experiencing new “firsts” nearly every day it seems. Today we gave him whole chunks of organic banana for the first time. This week at day care Landon’s teacher told us he got in his first “fight,” pushing another little boy down in retaliation after being pushed first. Are we bad parents if the thought of 9 month olds fighting makes us laugh? Another recent first is that Landon can now pull himself up to a standing position and play standing up for long periods of time. We made the movie above this morning showing Landon standing and playing with his musical table, one of his favorite toys at the moment.