Friday, March 2, 2012

March 2nd – 6 months old!!

Dear Landen,

How in the heck are you already a half a year old?????  We are truly amazed by you every day.  You bring so much love and laughter into our lives.  Don’t get me wrong, you also bring a whole lot of work and sometimes frustration, but the good outweighs the bad a million times.

You’ve definitely made some developmental gains this month.  You’ve started rolling onto your tummy all the time!  However, you’ve forgetten how to roll back the other way and you get really irritated when you’re on your tummy for long.  Mommy and Daddy are constantly having to “rescue” you and then you just roll back over onto your tummy again since it’s so fun.  You move all over your crib.  You started grabbing your feet during diaper changes at the beginning of the month.  You’re very interested in Nala and watch her every move.  You’ve started “spitting” and blowing raspberries.  We are getting sprayed all the time.  You are quite the burper.  It amazes us sometimes how big some of your burps are.  It makes Mommy and Daddy laugh and laugh when you let out a good one!

Two big things happened this month in your world.  You started eating baby food and Mommy went back to work.  Once we tried rice cereal with you we moved to oatmeal and you love it!  Once that was going well we started introducing some fruits and vegetables.  Your first food was sweet potatoes and you were in heaven!!  You aren’t a big fan of pears and avocado made you gag.  You love to eat!  If we’re not shoveling it in fast enough you grunt loudly and bang your hands on the high chair.  We’ve had to start giving you a little juice mixed with water during the day due to constipation but it’s not big deal.  We switched from feeding you 6 oz. bottles to 5 oz.  You are much more comfortable with that amount and don’t fight us so much anymore.  You just aren’t one of those kids who can take big bottles.  You’re on the very low end of the range for total ounces in a day but you’re growing steadily so we’re not too worried about it.

The second big thing this past month was Mommy going back to work.  She works 4 days a week so that means you go to “daycare” now.  Lucky for us, your Mimi and Lolo are your daycare providers so you get to spend 2 days a week with each of them.  Mommy has to get up SUPER early in the morning to get ready and then get you ready to go, but everything seems to be working out.  Your grandparents are really good about texting us photos and updates so we know how you’re doing.

We finally switched you to 6-9 month clothes.  We probably waited too long because we realized they really aren’t too much bigger than 3-6.  Your pants are longer now though.  Mommy started to feel claustrophobic with all the baby gear in the living room so we took the coffee table out to the garage for the next few months. It’s a lot more open in there now and there’s plenty of space for you to move around.

We can’t wait to see what the next month brings little one!








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