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I haven’t been so great about posting blogs as regular as I wanted. But I did post a blog on my myspace page when he was 6 weeks, and now I’ll just paste that here. And then I’m writing a new blog with more updates.

Landen is already 6 weeks old, and he has changed so much even in the last 2 weeks, he’s just growing more of a personality and he’s learning the ways of the world just as much as I’m learning how to be a mom. Here is what we know about Mr.Landen James so far. Landen is pretty mellow like Daddy and likes to sleep a lot like Daddy, however he is definitely a morning person…he would probably get that from me, at 6 in the morning when I want to go back to sleep he is wide awake and just giggling and smiling making it extremely difficult to be mad at him for not being able to go back to sleep. Landen has a little bit of a temper and knows what he wants…and he’s usually the only one that knows too…I don’t know where he gets that from (or do I?) he has what we call “The Rage” it’s this build up of anger that usually results in kicking his legs and getting really angry in the face and turning red and not make any noise, if you don’t catch the Rage building up…you’ll soon regret it because he becomes even more upset and lets out a yell…not a cry it’s literally a yell…at this point his back is arching he’s twisting his torso and you just kind of have to let him kick for a while and get it out of his system and then he’s perfectly happy again…some people say it’s gas, I personally just think it’s blowing off steam.

Here is my favorite part of what I know about Landen, he loves his mommy….originally I didn’t feel like a mom right after he was born, I was totally in love but I just didn’t feel like he really knew I was his mother or Josh was his father…but now, it’s different. He calms down when I hold him, he quiets down and starts to look around the room when I’m talking and someone else is holding him and he just smiles when he stares at me (which he’ll actually do for almost anyone now) I hope he doesn’t become to much of a mamma’s boy, but for now it just feels great and I’m enjoying it…because let’s face it, you don’t get this kind of love from your kids when they grow up.

Landen also enjoys getting out of the house (sometimes) ..it’s almost like he gets tired of being cooped up just as much as me, so he definitely gets that from me so sometimes when he’s fussy we just go somewhere, the mall or visit someone anyone really. But then on the rare occasion he’s just not in the mood to go out and then I quickly regret taking him anywhere..but that’s really only happened once maybe twice.

Landen gets an upset tummy sometimes, and when he’s upset he’s just not the happy baby he is during the day, unfortunetaly this usually occurs in the late afternoon to early evening which is when we visit a lot of people or people come visit us so they don’t get to see happy Landen. But he’s getting better, this week has been a huge transition from last week.

Landen is undecisive (just like mommy) which is why it’s SO hard to get a routine with him. He’ll decide it’s easier this way and then do a 180 and decide it just doesn’t work, or he’s bored or something and you have to figure out a new way. Breastfeeding him has been hard for the simple fact that he just can’t figure out if he prefers breast or bottle, he’ll be on strictly just breast for like 3-4  days and then he’ll just refuse it, so then I have to give him a bottle and the same thing, a few days that works and then refuses….so I don’t think he really knows what he prefers but he sure gives mommy and daddy a ride!

Landen likes to cuddle, I was telling Josh the other day…I figured out my favorite thing about having a baby…it fulfills my cuddle needs. Josh is not a cuddler, so having Landen to cuddle with 24/7 is just my absolute favorite thing and makes me feel so loved and needed and I hope I make Landen feel the same way.

I probably know much more about him, but I can’t think of all the things right now! I do have a funny story and anyone who has had a boy has maybe had this happen, lol. Yesterday we were literally walking out the door and then I needed to change him, so I’m wiping his butt and as most of you know boys like to pee when it hits the air…well I heard it and I looked over and he was literally peeing on his face and hair…oh it was horrendous! We had to bath him and change him and I didn’t do the best job at quickly bathing him cuz he still smelled like pee later on, I just will never get that image of his face out of my mind!!!

As far as a routine goes, we actually do have somewhat of a routine, but it just varies by an hour or two on different days of the week, but hopefully by the end of the month he’ll be more prone to a stricter routine so he can get use to be going back to work in mid-November.

So for now, this is really all I have to share…I can’t believe Landen let me type this long, now I am off to see what else he’ll let me do! TaTa!!