Super fun!!!

Landon in his special Monkey Pajamas. Thank you Auntie Heather and Auntie Candy. Unfortunately, soon after this picture was taken, there was an explosive poop. Hopefully the stain will come out...
Landon snuggling with his Cuddles (name of his blanket) on our walk the other night.

Love this outfit! I couldn't resist the monkey onesie and these jeans are from Auntie Candy and the shoes... Oh, I am not a big shoes on baby person other than Sunday (and that is only because Candy gave him shoes for Sundays), but I couldn't resist putting this outfit together!

The best part is that he obviously has room to grow and will be wearing it for a while!

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Okay, I think that I am officially up to date with the blog! Whew...
Basically, we have been busy, James has been training the last three weeks to close the store, so he has been working Sunday evenings from 3:30-1:30 and then getting up at 8:30 the next morning to get to work for training. It has been rough. I also threw out my back last Monday and it took a couple of days to heal along with some major chiropractic work. I am so lucky to have a very awesome chiropractor in my ward. He is amazing! He even got rid of my muscle aches so I can now sleep at night without taking Tylenol or sitting up to sleep! Thanks Mac!
I am working on tons of blanket/quilt projects. James has taken over the Redskins and VA Tech baby blankets. I can't wait until they are done, they are going to be awesome!
Working for me has been good. I had one day that was super busy, but now it is slow again.
I mentioned before that we changed out Landon's clothes to 6 month clothes. I kept looking at the 6 month clothes and thinking they are so HUGE. But I finally gave in when I decided that it is too cold for Landon to be sleeping in gowns. They fit perfectly. So we changed it all out and it all fits perfectly. WOW!
Landon is becoming so much fun! Life is hard, bills are scary, but he just makes it all go away! He has been super cuddly lately, and I love it! He wants to play with me more than his toys, which is awesome, except when I have to work. Luckily he has decided that watching me type one handed is fascinating... Thank heavens for spell check, huh?

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Isn't his cry pitiful? I love it when he throws his head back and wails. I have to laugh every time. He only does it when he is tired.

James tickling Landon. I love his smile so much, sometimes I hate to give him the pacifier.

More tickling. I couldn't get enough the first time. (Sorry, I forgot this is lopsided when I recorded it.)

More of Landon's monkey face.

Practicing sitting up.

Feeding time!

Landon eats so much that I can't keep up with him during allergy season. He hates formula, so we have decided to try real thick cereal at dinner time. This is his first taste of it...

This is the second night of cereal... And it goes down hill from here. I was TRYING to feed him last night and after doing a couple of airplanes, I thought of the mom in The Incredibles and all her funny baby feeding faces and I just started cracking up.

Good Stuff

Landon fell asleep in his swing and slumped over. So cute!
Man, he is getting big!

Swing time

He was staring at the mirror of his mobile forever.

James is in awe that Landon isn't 5 months yet, but we have completely switched out Landon's clothes to 6-9 months.

It got chilly last week, so we had to dress Landon in his first sweatshirt.

Landon holding his own bottle. It is funny when he pulls it out on accident because he isn't used to keeping his hand still while eating.

Oh My... What a cutie!

Landon loves these pajamas! He can spend forever just looking at all the prints.

The other day, I came into our bedroom and this is what I saw...

Look at those faces, I must have ruined their fun or something...

Look! No hands! Landon is sitting up on his own!

For some reason this morning, Landon was trying to eat or slobber on his bumbo tray...

Zoo Trip!

It isn't going to be much longer before Sam is taller than me!
A baby gorilla was born in January, it was really cute but our pictures didn't turn out.
So here is Sam with the Mommy Baby Gorilla statue.

I think this must be the Papa...

I am not going to bore you with pics of animals, but I couldn't resist the pony eating it's poop pic.

Can you find the elephant, lion and two monkeys?

There are two lions that mark the back entrance to the zoo. Pretty impressive.

We decided to take Sam to the D.C. Zoo. It is a national zoo, so it is free and it is huge and awesome! You could spend hours there. There were even people running the length for a work out.

This was our last day together. Had to do our own run through of the zoo. Had about 30 minutes that we stretched into 90 minutes, but totally worth it!

Every time we passed under a bridge or overpass, Landon's eyes would get huge. It is so funny. I tried to capture it on tape.

Visit from Sami

My niece Sam came to visit us. She paid for the trip and everything! We had so much fun! I had to make some blankets while she was here and get them in the mail, and I started working again for my boss, so between that stuff, we had a ton of fun!

I miss her and am so glad that we were able to do this! We laughed a ton and I am so amazed at the person she has become! I love you Sami!

(These did not upload in the order I wanted, but I don't have time to fix...)

Sami made her baby brother (who is just a few days older than Landon) a Snugga-Luv.

She chose the Rhino.


Watching it get sewn...

Sam and Landon

James and Landon playing while we put together the Snugga-Luv.

Sami bought Landon a hippo. I think he loves it!

I got a special request order from our website:

quiltsbykista.com

and had to finish it at the beginning of the week. Isn't it awesome?!

All of the hippos in the corners are embroidery.
Landon watching the embroidery machine make a hippo.
Holy Cow! Their faces are almost the same size!
The first couple of days our mornings started with the entire family calling to see what we were doing.
I took Sami to this store called Five Below where they have some awesome nail polish. We were experimenting with art designs for our nails.
Sam feeding Landon, look how huge he is!

Sam is amazing with babies. Landon loved her. I am not used to anyone other than me or James taking care and entertaining Landon so this was weird for me, but soon got very comfortable. It was hard to get back to life when she left.

Landon was talking and then right before it ends he spit up all over Sam, but watching the video you can't tell what happened.

Landon was making this hilarious face! His nickname monkey is starting to fit pretty good, huh?

Landon was so entertained...

Disclaimer: This is not my normal laugh. I laughed so much this week with Sam and hardly got any sleep, so I am guessing this is my delirious laugh...