Smile, 55 million, PREGNANT!!: September 2012

So my baby turned 5 months old on Friday!! He is getting so big!

This month has consisted of a few more milestones. We have been working on sleeping in the crib...this was small steps each day. He now sleeps in the crib without being proped up and completely surrounded with blankets and towels.

He has started eating cereal like a champ and tonight we made the move onto baby food. I am trying to make my own and it really wasn't to hard at all. Thanks to Louise for getting us a baby food processor and containers for a shower gift, I was off and running. We started with orange veggies, so I made squash and sweet potato tonight. Matt gave Landon squash tonight and he liked it! The first few bites were a little funny, but he decided it was good stuff and ate it all!

We have also started our favorite season of the year, football season! Landon has had a lot of fun cheering for the Cyclones and so far has brought good luck as we started 3-0 and beat the Hawkeyes last weekend! He even had a day of football with Uncle Luke yesterday while mommy and daddy went to the football game.

He is rolling over without any trouble now, and is starting to get up on his knees! It won't be too much longer and I will have a mobile baby...oh lord!

What, I can't go to the game?

But, I can still cheer for the Cyclones!!

Go STATE!!!

BFF's cheering for the Cyclones!

Hangin' with Aunt Heather...before she started screaming and freaked me out :o)

Cheering with Aunt Abby!!

Peek-a-Boo

Cyclones win!!

Getting ready for daycare!

Small steps into the crib, needed foot rests and back support...

I am SOOO Proud to be a Cyclone fan!!

What is THIS stuff...

I LOVE Butternut Squash!!

So big, 5 months old!!!

So we have a very big boy on our hands!! We went to the doctor on August 17th and Landon weighed in at 14 lbs 10 oz and is 25.5 inches long. He is still pretty low in the weight percentiles, but we'll take it!!

At that appointment we talked a lot about the next steps and decided it is time to start adding in a little rice cereal. The doctor wasn't worried about any allergies, because he had been taking formula and she said that if he can handle milk-based formula we should be okay for cereal. We also got the okay to start veggis when he has learned how to eat cereal. I am thinking I will wait with those until a little closer to 6 months! One step at a time!!

So the week of August 19th was crazy for us! Landon and I went to the Cyclone FanFest with some of my friends. Landon and I got our picture taken with Cy, Coach Hoiberg, and Coach Rhoads. Recruiting class of 2030 here we come!! 2030...that really makes you feel old!!

Monday the 20th Landon started rolling over!! He decided to start back to front...take the hard way first, but we knew that front to back would come shortly there after because he was not a fan of being on his stomach!!

Tuesday the 21st we started cereal. I was amazed at how well he ate this!! We have since then had very up and down days. Especially with Daddy...Landon likes to be stubborn with dad!! Tonight I got him to eat his whole bowl full and even made a little more!

Wednesday the 22nd Landon had enough of that tummy stuff and decided to roll front to back! Crazy, Crazy week!

Since then it has been pretty low key at our house. Landon decided to be crazy and do lots of things in 3 days to impress us and then take a few weeks off! He continues to talk and babbble like crazy and drool like a rock star! We did get his Halloween costume in the mail this week and he is going to be SOOO CUTE, but you will have to wait until October to see that!

Landon started daycare on the 14th of August and has done very well. We really like the in-home provider we picked and it seems to be working out great. Landon is always happy when we drop him off and pick him up and she got him on a schedule real quick! Something we were slacking at.

Last night we decided to really push crib sleeping. I'm not sure if it was harder on Landon or Mommy and Daddy. We had been slowing transitioning from his bassinet, but it wasn't going well. After lots of trys with towels under the sheets, and blakents under his legs, we just put him in there and hoped for the best. Yeah, that wasn't working so well. He was up every 45 minutes/hour. Around 3, Matt finally gave in and put him in his bassinet, in his room. Now tonight, knock on wood, he feel asleep hard at 8:00 and has been sleeping in his bed ever since...Maybe he wore himself out last night and gave in!!

Football season is in full swing and maybe Landon will get to experience his first tailgate, no games since they are a little loud, but some fun and sun is always good! Go CYCYLONES!!