New Room!

Our little baby Leland is really starting to grow up. I've been fooling myself in thinking I still have a newborn. :( He has 6 teeth (three on top and three on bottom) and perhaps signs of a new one soon. He is standing up with the help of anything he can get his hands on, including my pant legs. He's not as cautious as Caius was as a baby, so his poor little forehead has tiny bumps and bruises on it from his various falls. He is definitely learning. He knows that if he crawls off the couch he will fall and it will hurt, and now he is careful to stay put, so I use it if I need to contain him to one area for a short period of time. Lately though, he is standing on the arm of the couch and reaching around to grab letter/number magnets from the front of the frige to chew on.

We recently had to switch Leland to formula, full-time. My supply gradually disappeared and he was getting very little if anything from me. It took about a day of starving him to get him to try a bottle. After another day or so, he was a pro, and now he is learning to hold the bottle and feed himself. We are hoping to fatten him up a little before he starts walking. As you can see from this picture, he has itty bitty feet. I don't think there is anything we can do about that, so we just love them. :)

Caius is really growing up to be a helpful, polite, obedient little boy. He loves "yee-yee" (translation: Leland) and is happy 90% of the time. He says thank you without ever being asked. He even started saying thank you when I change his diaper for him! When I took Leland in for his 9 month appt. Caius came with us to get a flu shot. Leland went first, so Caius knew what was coming and did not want any part of it. (The three nurses who helped hold him down all commented that he was a very strong 2 year old!) After the shot was administered, Caius cried for just a minute and then through his sniffling he looked up at the nurse, put his hand on hers and said, "Thank you." She said that was a first.

Caius and Leland like to take turns climbing in this old tv stand and closing the door, then they laugh at each other through the glass.

We decided to put Caius and Leland in the same room. They take their afternoon naps at the same time, and they both sleep through the night. We always planned to have them share a room, so one night, sort of on a whim, we moved all the furniture around. they were thrilled that first night, playing on Cai's bed together while we moved all the little things. Bedtime, was a little confusing but after a few nights, they got used to each other. Nap times go well too, except when they are too wound up. In that case, Leland stands up and peeks over the side of his crib at Caius and laughs at him. Every morning, and some nights when he is being mischevious, Caius walks across the dresser between their beds and climbs into Leland's crib to play with him. On monday morning, when I went in, Cai was in the crib with Leland, both of them crying because Caius had somehow gotten his diaper off while still wearing his footie pajamas. His diaper was a great 10 lb. ball in one foot of his pajams and both his legs were stuck in the other leg hole. How uncomfortable! But, I laughed out loud at him and it put him in a better mood about it before I released him from his entrapment. :)

(In this picture the caps for the front posts of Leland's crib aren't on, but if you haven't seen it before, this is the crib that Neal built when I was pregnant with Caius. Isn't is beautiful?)