Dad and Son

Whenever John comes home, Landon will instantly perk up. He'll look around until he finds his Dad, study his face for a couple of seconds, and then smile his best smile.
The other day, right before John came home, Landon was fussing and just wasn't in a good mood. Right when John walked in the door though, he started looking around towards the sound, found his Dad, and gave him a great big smile. John said, "Aww, he's in such a good mood!" He probably thinks that I just sit around all day with a happy baby. Ah, I wish! That would be wonderful. I'm just glad that Landon loves his Daddy and is happy to see him when he comes home.

Landon has finally figured out how to grab the toys that were dangling down on his playmat! He was so happy that he finally did it.

Landon has a problem watching TV already. He can just zone out in front of it. I guess we're going to have to limit his TV time when he gets older. As you can tell from one of the pictures, he doesn't like what he's watching and wants me to turn the channel. This kid can be so demanding sometimes!!

So I'm transitioning him out of his 0-3 month clothes and into his 3-6 month clothes. He has some summer 3-6 month clothes that have to be used before summer is over. I find that I'm taking more pictures of him in these outfits just becuase I don't know how many times he'll be able to wear it!
Also, we're working on getting him to suck his thumb. He figures it out sometimes but the other times he's sticking all his fingers in his mouth or his fist.

Here's another outfit that's 3-6 month. I thought he looked like such a little boy because we put shoes on him.

Just some randon pictures.
He's learned to play Hide n' Seek.

Workin' it! Posing for the camera.

All the boys on the floor!

Now there is a story behind this. This isn't just another sleeping picture, even though it is a picture of him sleeping.
Mom was left in charge of Landon for a little while while Tami, Camden and I all went to the pool at our complex. We came back to my parents and Landon was asleep on the bed in my parents room even though I'd left him on the floor in the Family Room. A little background, Landon had learned how to scoot a little bit. He's never gone anywhere very fast doing it though and hasn't gone very far. While mom was watching him, Landon had scooted between an in-table and the sofa and had gotten his head stuck. He started yelling at the top of his lungs and when my mom got to him, he looked at her like, "what happened?" She calmed him down and laid him on her bed on his tummy so he wouldn't scoot off the bed. Since then, Landon really doesn't scoot. He's content to just lay there an flail his arms and legs in the air.

Fishing

So, mom suggested fishing and we thought it was a good idea. Nice and relaxing, right? Oh my goodness, it was so not what I thought it was! I hadn't been fishing since I was a brownie in girl scouts. All I remember was catching a fish (by the way, I was the last one in the troop to catch a fish and I was again the last one to catch a fish this time too). I didn't realize that there were so many other things involved. Like if a fish swallows the hook, you have to pry it out of his mouth with plyers. Did we have any? Of course not! And man, those fish were hard to hold on to those slippery little suckers! We didn't come very prepared either. We didn't have anything to hold our fish in, or anything to get the hook out of their mouths. Thankfully, there was someone else there with his kid and he helped us out with getting the hook out of their mouths and gave us a chain to ring all the fish up together with.
Price for fishing - $11.50
Price for 5 fish at $0.55/in - $33.00
Actually catching a fish - Priceless!


All the fish we caught!