L: 7 months old

At seven months old, Landon is 16 pounds. He is long and lean. His eyes are kind of hazel, but we’re still watching them change.

He loves to jump, swing, and be carried. He is not interested in crawling and doesn’t even like to be on the ground anymore unless someone is there with him, and sometimes not even that is good enough to make him enjoy tummy time.

He is a very happy baby. He requires a lot of attention and is in some ways more demanding than I remember Aiden being, but he has a 100-watt smile, loves to cuddle, and stays happy as long as he is fed often. He really LOVES to eat. We still haven’t given him anything he wouldn’t eat.

He is sitting pretty well, but we still keep within arm’s length of him most of the time, and he’s pretty good at rolling. It’s fun to see how different he is from Aiden already. Aiden was very active, quick to learn physical things, strong, relatively quiet, a great sleeper, not a great eater… Landon just likes to be cuddled or doing something WITH the family, not a great sleeper (but pretty good), and a fantastic eater.

He babbles a lot, loves to touch (and put his mouth on) anything new and “exciting.” I gave him a sippy cup with a little water in it this weekend, and he joyfully soaked himself with it and did NOT want to give it up until he had spent twenty minutes “figuring it out.”

I am SO looking forward to this summer home with my boys. Only four more days of school!