More Pictures

Okay, more pictures. First, though, Landon's cough has returned. We're running the humidifier at night (seems pointless in Houston, but we're doing it anyway.) Any other suggestions???

Landon reading his nursery song book


Landon's bath time (cute little grin)



And his new teddy bear that he ADORES.

Go Eastern!

Landon's finally big enough to wear his ENMU (Eastern New Mexico University) shirt. Plus it has a shuttle on it (although we scrubbed again today.)



The sleeping is going pretty good. He slept with us two nights this past week, all the other nights, he stayed in his crib and didn't even cry. He's such a good boy.

He knows to reach out his hands now, when he wants you. He reached for Daddy last night. He also has learned what the sound of a bottle being shaken means and is ready to go to whoever is holding it.

He loves bath time in the big tub. He tries to gather all his toys, if you gets out of reach, he thinks he can get it with his feet. Either that or he wants to stand up. In fact, he pretty much wants to stand up all the time.

Here's some cute pictures from the last week:

What a morning

So I suppose I now know that Landon has outgrown size 1-2 diapers, after waking up twice, yes twice, soaked this morning. Then to top it off, he threw up all over me after I changed him (the second time.) But then of course, he grins and babbles and everything is fine in the world again.

What a stinker.

I didn't find out anything about the fast flow, so I haven't opened the packages yet.

We got the pictures back from Target - they're pretty cute (proud mama alert.)




Amazing how much he's already changed since two weeks ago.

We're off to Florida tomorrow. Bryan's sister bought a Honda Odessy and we're driving it there and then flying back. I never thought I'd be a mini van kind of mom, but that vehicle is awesome. I could definitely hang out in that.

Genes?

Daddy...Landon...Mama...

Baseball Game and Water Park

We made another road trip this weekend. We met Jill and her family in Dallas. What a great weekend.

The boys got in plenty of swimming. On Saturday, we went to McKinney and had breakfast at Betty's, a neat little café there with a great breakfast buffet. Then it was on to some of the stores in that area, and of course a drive by Jill and Kip's old house. Then we headed back to Frisco and went on a shopping spree. With the kids begging to go swim the whole time. Kallie made a cute little bear named Frisco. We got back to the hotel and they had an hour to swim before we headed off to the baseball game.

The Frisco Rough Riders were playing the Midland Rockhounds. It’s a neat little baseball park, very hot though. They have a roping dummy set up behind one of the concessions and the boys surprised the cowgirl when they roped like professionals. Even Kallie got in on it. Trevor and Taylor got some autographs and there were a couple times Jill and I thought we'd get an autograph of a baseball on our heads. (We were right in the foul territory.) Everyone won a free t-shirt by picking out which board was Hardi-plank in a contest.



The next day we headed to the water park in Denton. It’s a nice size park, with a couple slides, a lazy river, a kids area and two indoor pools. Landon enjoyed his first water park as we floated along the lazy river. Kallie had a great time in the kids area and floating along with Jill and Kip in the river. I think Taylor lapped us a couple times. Bryan, Kip and Trevor spent most of the time on the slides. I'm sure all the kids slept great on the way home.

We had a great weekend, nice and relaxing. Kallie kept pointing at Landon and asking us "What's her name?" "Oh, that's Landon." We couldn't figure out why she kept asking…until Bryan explained that's what people usually say to kids…"Oh, what's your name?" So she had just picked up on it and decided that's what needed to be said. Too smart. She wanted to hold Landon all weekend, they were too cute together.

Off to Day Care

Well, yesterday was Landon's first day of daycare. The teachers are great, and there are so many cute little kids there. He started the day off with a good breakfast, then Dad gave him a bath while Mom got ready. He was wide awake, talking and laughing all morning. He fell asleep on the way and stayed asleep while we handed him over to Miss Inez. And I only cried once I got to the car...just for a little bit, okay, the whole way to work, but I made it through the day okay.

I picked Landon up around 4:30, he was wide awake, and looked like he may have been awake the whole day. He talked and played with us until about 7, when he zonked out. Bryan finally had to wake him up at midnight to eat. I think he definitely had a full day. He was up again this morning, bright eyed and talking. But was pretty sleepy by the time I left him in his crib at school.

We should get internet access to the day care sometime this week. Its probably a good thing I can't see his first few days…I'd probably be over there as soon as I saw him cry (I know you're all laughing because you know he doesn't cry.)

He also had his first play date this weekend. Bryan, Landon and I met our friends Sandy and her son, and Kim and her daughter out at Kemah. Of course, Landon slept while the other two rode the Merry-Go-Round, the airplanes and the train.

I can't believe how big he's getting. Bryan measured him…he's around nine pounds and 23 inches now. Almost out of size newborn clothes. I look back at his first pictures and can't believe he isn't that small anymore. He's definitely putting on a little chubbiness. His smiles and little ga-ga's are just so cute. He'll be saying his A-B-Cs in no time.

Bottles...

So, we're gearing up to start feeding one bottle meal a day. I've been pumping for the past couple of days (man does it feel good to be empty.) I can not believe how many bottles / nipples we have to choose from. My sisters have used the disposable playtex with all their babies, so I assume we'll just go with that. Bryan's going to give Landon his lunch meal starting Saturday. Hopefully that will go well, we only have 3 weeks until I'm back at work, so we need Landon to get adjusted to a bottle soon.

Here's my sweet little boy in his hoodie - it was actually cold enough to wear this in April - nice.



He is so sweet and you can tell, he is getting chubbier. Yay, all the soreness is paying off, my baby's gettin' fat. =-)

One Month

Landon's four weeks. So, its basically been four weeks since I've posted - ha.

I love being a mother, most of the time. I have had a few painful nursing, where I really wished men could produce milk, but other than that, love it.

Landon's a great baby. He hardly ever cries, and if he does, its easily remedied. Since about two weeks he's been able to hold his head up and turn it to either side, while laying on his belly. Just in the last week, he's started following his toys and trying to hold them. He found his thumb about two weeks ago, but that entails putting his other four fingers over his eyes...



Easter was fun too. We met my cousin Kim and her family. Landon was still in preemie clothes for that. We went to a park, had some lunch and the kids hunted eggs.


We had a crawfish boil on Saturday, but Landon must have been going through a growth spurt, because we spent basically the whole day in the bedroom nursing.

He is just too cute. He's already getting chubby. His arms and legs are getting some fat on them...so precious.

Okay - so I know that wasn't much of an update, but its a start.

Landon Brenner is HERE!

I'll have to fill in all the details later...

After a very easy delivery on Tuesday, Landon Brenner was born on March 28 at 12:28 in the afternoon. He weighed 6 pounds 1 ounce and was 18 inches long. A very healthy little boy.