6 months!

Landon has officially hit the half year mark and I have no idea where the time has gone.
Here are some stats from our 6 mo checkup:

Weight: 17lbs, 3oz (50%)
Height: 251/2 inches (25%)

He is wearing 6-9 mo clothes and can even fit into a 2T K-State sweatshirt I found in a drawer today... I couldn't believe it... Just a bit long on the sleeves, but not too bad! I guess I know what we will be wearing when it gets cooler... if that ever happens!

He has started eating some solid foods. I am making my baby food from scratch and he is finally starting to like my cooking. The foods we have tried so far are sweet potatoes, carrots, butternut squash, bananas, and apples. He doesn't care much for rice cereal so I don't push it. I have on a few occasions mixed it in with the food, but he seems to be able to tell and doesn't want to eat it as much. Eating for him is a very messy evtnt. I usually strip him down to a diaper and put a bib on him and go for it. He likes to get his hands involved and help me put the spoon to his mouth.. whatever it takes I guess. I am still breastfeeding and occassionally supplmenting with formula. It is going good still so I am going to try to keep it up for as long as I can.

He is not crawling yet, but is moving all around by rolling. I can tell he is trying to get up on all fours and move but just hasn't quite got there yet and I am not pushing it!! His limited mobility is fine with me! He is sitting up completely on his own which is nice not to have to prop him up!

Landon is such a joy to be around and I feel so blessed to be his mama. He is growing and changing every day and becoming more and more his own person.

My sweet baby boy!

Disappointments

It seems like every time I leave my house I am disappointed with either the place I am shopping at or the way people drive or really just about anything. Take today for example, I went to Wal-Mart to take a CD in to have my pictures developed in the 1 hr machine. I get there and follow the steps and insert my disc... nothing happens.... nothing happens..... So I take it out and try the next maching over... still nothing happens and the machines won't read my disc. I finally find a group of "associates" and ask them if they work in the photo lab.. No none of them did of course, so they paged someone. Like 5 minutes later a girl walks over rather slowly and non-friendly looking and instead of asking me if she could help me she just looks at me and another couple standing there. They just needed to pay for some pictures so I told them to go in front of me. When it was my turn I told her what my problem was and all she said was, "I guess the maching can't read your CD." Silence on both ends..... Well, I said, is there something wrong with the machine? She said that it can't read it and the USB reader does not work either. She told me I could use the instant printer machine, but I had 150 pictures to print! I did not want to pay the extra $.10 per picture to print them and on top of that, stand there while it printed 150 pictures. I just wanted to drop it off and leave! And it wasn't like it was "out of order" and that they were fixing it, they know it does not work and still do not fix it. I should have asked to talk to a manager or something but I am just not the type of person to complain at the time.. I just seem to vent later. (I need to change that if I want change to happen I guess) I left there so pissed because I hate Walmart and the way they just don't care! The carts are CRAP! The store is DIRTY! The people are UNFRIENDLY! and last time I tried to do a complaint online it made me put in my receipt #, but the printer that did my receipt was so shitty that I couldn't even read the numbers on the receipt! I am now boycotting Walmart and have started the process of downloading all 150 of my pictures to Snapfish. I think that is one reason why people do so much online shopping.. you don't have to deal with "associates" and crappy machines that don't work and dirty stores!

And the sad thing is that it's just not Walmart! There is trash everywhere in parking lots, on the streets, in yards. People drive way too fast and cut you off and there seems to be an overall lack of respect for other people or pride in your work. I don't know if it is a southern thing, but almost every server we have at restaurants are slow, lazy, don't get you what you need and seem to not want to help you. And I am not one to special order too much or send food back or anything like that!

Anyway, I just don't like where it seems things are going and I am not even old yet! I am sure the older I get the worse I will feel about the world. Maybe I will go out this afternoon and will have an experience that will change my mind from this morning.... now that's a good attitude to have! :)

4 mo stats and pics!

So, we had Landon's 4 month Dr's appointment- shots and all yesterday.

He weighs 14lbs, 7oz and is 24.5 inches tall. That keeps him at the 50th percentile for weight and still 25th percentile for height. His head circumference is still in the 50th percentile as well. So growing steadily since his 2 month appointment.

He got a liquid medicine and two shots.. one in each leg. He screamed while they were being performed (of course) but after I picked him up he was just fine. I haven't seen any side effects of the shots so hopefully it will all be smooth sailin'. I am so proud of him and how he is growing. She did say if I wanted to start some solid foods like rice cereal or some veggies, ect. I could or I could wait until the 6 month mark. I am ok with just doing breastmilk for now until he seems like he needs or wants something else but she did reccommend I start him on some vitamins. So I will pick that up at my next shopping trip... But all in all he did great and is right on track! Which makes me a proud Mama to say the least!

Here are some recent pics of my little prince... Enjoy!! :)

Fun in the tub!!!




Fun in the sun on our first swimming adventure!



Looking so grown up in Mommy's rocking chair!