Clearly Gary and I have not gotten down a good blogging rhythm so our posts tend to be very sporadic. Sorry about that. If I posted as many times as I thought about it, you would all know more about our lives than you care to, I'm sure.
Anyway, yesterday Landon turned 11 months old!! It's hard to believe our baby is almost 1. The last month has been somewhat frustrating healthwise for him because he has had an ongoing ear infection. After 3 rounds of antibiotics, it seems like he's finally kicked it for now but we were told to keep him on a "short leash" since he still has a lot of fluid in his ears. He seems to be doing much better know and is back to eating like his old self pretty much which makes meal times much easier for us.
It's been a busy summer with 2 vacations (NC and Michigan) and 1 more trip for Brittany's wedding. Travel is fun but I'm pretty sure the days of "relaxing vacations" are behind us! We've also taken on a plot at a community garden. When we took it over it had already been planted (lucky for us) so we've been trying to figure out a good schedule over there to water, weed and harvest! It will be fun next year to start from scratch and figure out what we want to plan for the whole season.
Landon has started up physical therapy for the next several weeks to help him build the muscle he needs to crawl and walk. He moves pretty quickly across the room these days, but he still does an army crawl dragging his belly on the ground. He props up on all 4s pretty frequently, but drops down to his stomach when he wants to move. We got him a little musical table this week and he's really enjoyed standing at that and pushing all the buttons to make sounds and music. He is smiling and laughing a lot, which is great to see after he had a crabby few weeks. He's started smacking his lips when he sees something he wants to eat like when I'm getting is food ready or when we are eating something he wants. Gary was sitting on the floor eating cereal for breakfast this morning and Landon climbed up Gary to try and get it smacking his lips the whole time. He still yells a lot and just likes to be loud and make noise. He enjoyed interacting with other babies and other kids. He really loved spending time with his cousin, Abigail, while we were in Michigan. He just loved watching her and laughing at the things she did.
Yesterday we went to the Congenital Heart Walk for the Rocky Mountain region. It was on the campus where the children's hospital is that Landon has spent so much time. It was so bizarre to go up there and not go in the hospital! It brought back memories too, to go in the Chipotle close to the hospital and remember going there for dinner sometimes while he was in the hospital and just thinking about what things were like. We enjoyed getting to spend some time with the other members of the Mended Little Hearts group we are part of and walk with them and celebrate the lives of these brave kids! If you would like to donate to our donation page for the walk, you can do so
here. Funds raised will support the missions of the ACHA (Adult Congenital Heart Assocation) and CHF (Children's Heart Foundation).
Summer is winding down and we are excited for fall!
