So much fun in so little time

Well we are back from our whirlwind trip to Delaware and Arkansas. We had so much fun. Here are some notes from the trip.

Friday: Our first flight left San Diego at 12:00pm. We had to drop Sophie off at my grandparents house that morning so we got there around 9:30. When we were driving in the car we noticed Luke was making some pretty big grunting sounds so we both looked at each other and said YEAH, see he hadn't pooped in 8 days and I was so worried he would bless us with a blowout on the plane. We got to my grandmas and I changed him and of course he pooped through his outfit. I changed him and my very nice grandma kept the clothes and washed them while we were gone. We got to the airport 2 hours early and used every single minute of it. I can't believe how long it takes to do things with a baby. We checked 2 suitcases and Lukes carseat and base. Then we gate checked the stroller. We brought a diaper bag, my pump, a bag with other baby stuff, a boppy, and a backpack on the plane. Jason and I had it down though and after the first flight it was pretty easy getting around with all that stuff. On the second flight that day Luke pooped again. Of course he would do that but at least it wasn't as bad as the first time that day. We landed in Philadelphia around 10pm and drove to Jason's Aunt Sue's house. When we got there his aunt just "whipped up" some homeade marinara sauce with some spaghetti and a salad. She is amazing. She is the mom/wife I strive to be like (even my husband said why don't you be more like her).

Saturday: We woke up and realized that our amazing son slept through the night again!!!! His Aunt whipped up a fabulous breakfast and then we headed to the party for his uncle. We had so much fun. Luke was so awesome. There were around 100 or more people with very loud music and he would just let us know when he was ready for a nap and we would lay him in the pack n play that Jason's cousin Tim and his Wife Lisa brought for him and he would go to sleep. He had lots of fun playing with his 3rd cousin Kiersten. She is a total cutie. She was born April 2 so she is just over two weeks older than Luke. We were there for 6 hours and by the end of it Luke was done. We got back to his Aunts house and Luke took a very small nap and then was ready to play and hang out for the evening. He began talking up a storm while we were gone. As soon as you lay him on the floor he is babbling away.

Sunday: We woke up and Jason's Aunt made another awesome breakfast and then just as we were done and she cleaned that up she began on lunch! Then we headed to Arkansas. Luke had another good day on the airplane. My cousin Stacy's husband Dennis and my cousin Pat picked us up from the airport and took us to my Aunts condo that we were getting to stay in. The first night there was VERY hot. That is the only day Luke did not sleep through the night and he still woke up at 5am (really 3am our time).

Monday: Got up and went to see my Aunt Gemma who is staying with my Aunt Cathy. Got to see my cousin Melissa who is my age and I have not seen her in a very long time. We all headed to lunch at a place called Zaxbys (shoot I don't remember if that is how it is spelled or not), that my cousin Kaitlyn works at. I had such a good time visiting with everyone. That evening we went out to dinner with lots more family. After dinner we went back to my Aunt Bernadettes house and just hung out and played cards.

Tuesday: My Aunt Gemma had to go to an appointment in the morning so we did our own thing and met up with Jason's friend Clint who was on his umpire crew last year. We had lunch with him and one guy from his crew this year. That night we hung out with Stacy and her family. I actually got to see a lightening bug for the first time ever! I was so excited. Jason has been telling me about them for a very long time so I was so happy to finally see them.

Wednesday: Jason got up early and went golfing with my cousin Pat then we went to go see my Aunt Gemma before we had to leave. It was very difficult for me to leave Arkansas knowing that unless we get a miracle and get one very quickly I will never see my Aunt again. My dad left for Arkansas the day after we got home to see her. I hope he is having a good time. Later that afternoon my Aunt Bernadette and Uncle Jerry took us to Tulsa to the airport. Luke had another great flight. I am so fortunate that he was so good and we had a good experience. I was very nervous but he made it through just fine and continued to sleep through the night!!

I have to say that when I left Arkansas I was very sad. I felt like maybe we need to move there. We have always wanted to build our own house and we could do that there for sure and then I could have a much better chance of staying at home with my baby boy. Then I think of all the people I would be leaving behind here and I know that I don't want to move. If I ever do though I told Jason that I am starting my own Mexican restaurant. My cousin Pat said he wants to be the face of the restaurant so I will call it Primo Pats (cousin pats). I know we are right where we are supposed to be and I don't want to move but it sure does seem like a nice peaceful place to raise a family.

I know there is so much else I wanted to say but right now my kid has just started laughing up a storm and I want to go play with him and Jason!

He Loves his Raffi

Lukes cousin Kiersten

Lukey

Luke and Aunt Gemma

Luke with Aunt Gemma and Aunt Bernadette

Luke in his first Padres Tee shirt (thanks great grandma!!)

Luke and Primo Pat

I love Luke!!

Well yesterday was a very tough day for me. Luke was very very fussy. From about 2pm to 10:15pm I could do nothing but work on making him happy. I took him for a walk, gave him a bath, and played but nothing worked. My new thing now is to take one of the baby einstein or sunshine kids cd that Valerie made us and turn it up louder than his crying and sit in the dark with our projector on and rock him. He seems to settle down, however he still won't go to bed. Jason had class late last night so it was just me with him and even when Jason came home I knew he had a long day of working and class that I did not want to hand Luke over to him and say your turn (even though he offered). I finally got him down and he yet again slept through the night.

Today he was GREAT. He napped good. He was fantastic at my doctors appointment where he got to see both Great Grandma and Grandma. Then this afternoon Grandma and Papa came over and played with him. This evening we went out to dinner with my entire office for Daniels birthday and aside from puking all over his new outfit and daddy he was great. He didn't make so much as a peep and it was a long night. He finally fell asleep as we were wrapping up and when we got home he was awake and ate his last bottle and had some fun time with mommy and daddy. Once daddy went to sleep him and I hung out and he got tired so I put him in the cradle and he immediately fell asleep no complaining at all. I had so much fun tonight with the work crew. I asked one of the bosses if I could work from home and he said YES!! He did however have too many margaritas and the other bosses said no. I do miss all of them but I can't believe I have to leave Luke. It makes me very sad.

Well Friay is the big day. We begin our day by dropping our little Princess Sophie at my grandmas house and then do the whole travel with my little man. I'm getting nervous because he hasn't pooped since last Thursday and I'm hoping he poops tomorrow and not while we are on the plane. I can't imagine one of his blowouts on an airplane...

Someone pinch me

So my beautiful baby boy has slept through the night 7 nights in a row! I can't even believe it. Although I have a feeling he is just doing it to get my hopes up and then he will start waking up again but I hope not! We are going on vacation on Friday and we will visiting 2 different time zones. I'm a little worried that this will mess up his schedule. I'm going to try my very hardest to keep him as close to our time zone as possible while we are gone. I have thought that maybe we should just stay home but my Aunt is very sick and we NEED to see her ASAP. It sounds silly to stay home just because Luke is on a night time schedule but I go back to work soon and don't know how well I would manage if I had to get up in the middle of the night.

Saturday night we went to nightime zoo again with Chris and Becca. Had so much fun. We watched a bird show late at night in the dark. It was kind of fun even though it was birds (I HATE birds!!). We were walking out towards the exit after the show and saw some pretty creepy hyenas. They were kind of scary in the dark.

This morning Jason is taking his first of four CPA tests. Then this afternoon we are going to go to Fashion Valley and then walk around Balboa Park and then have dinner with Lindsay. Sounds like a really fun day to me.

Me and Luke at the zoo

Grandma and Luke at dinner for Great Grandpa's bday!

I tried to get good pictures of him in his Guess outfit since its so darn cute but he didn't want to show off his shirt and would not let go of the pacifier.

Our fun day

So we did meet up with Loralyn and Rory and April, Tony and Jaylen today at breastfeeding. Today was a full on celebration with prizes and cake at the class so in order to be part of the drawing we had some time to kill so we hung out and took pictures of the babies. I did win one of the prizes!! I won a $25 gift certificate to purchase something from the breastfeeding store. I can't decide on what to get I'm so excited.

This morning I noticed the awful thrush is back. I have been on antibiotics so I knew it most likely would come back and I think I caught it early this time and already had the doctor call in a prescription for the same medication we used that actually worked for him. Hopefully we can get rid of it before our trip.


Luke, Rory, and Jaylen hanging out and having fun.

Rory was staring at Luke most of the time but Luke couldn't take his eyes off the ceiling and wall to flirt back.

Happy Day!

So Luke has slept 3 nights in a row!! Last night I never even had to put the pacifier in his mouth. I'm not exactly sure why all of a sudden he decided to sleep all night but I like it. Also princess Sophie slept with me last night. She hasn't done that in a long time. Maybe she is starting to forgive me for bringing home a squirmy crying little thing. Today is a good day. I get to go to breastfeeding group (hopefully we will breastfeed) and see Loralyn and Aurora and hopefully April and Jaylen. Then Luke and I are going shopping.

14 weeks

So Luke is now 14 weeks old. He has changed so much since we brought him home from the hospital. I finally ordered his baby book so when it came I looked through the pictures and all my notes in my calendar to fill in his book. I love his book. Thanks Loralyn!

Luke has been having a screaming fit for an hour every night at the same time lately. We are not exactly sure what is going on. It isn't his overtired cry and he isn't hungry. Luckily Jason has been home every time and we can take turns with him but tonight Jason has class so hopefully Luke is over that now or it will be a long night without Jay. Luke slept through the night last night! I am not holding my breath. It was most likely a fluke but hopefully not. It took me long enough to get him down last night. He seemed tired when Jay got home from work yesterday around 5:45 so he tried to put him down in the crib but Luke wanted none of that. Then around his really fussy time we gave him a bath. It amazes me how he can go from screaming to smiling the instant you sit him in the water. He got a very long bath last night because we didn't want him to scream. After bath we fed him and then we tried to put him down. He fell asleep for about 20 minutes until he woke up again so him and I went in his room and put on some music and turned out the lights and turned on the little projector that puts images on the wall and just rocked while we looked at the images. He calmed down and was happy so we went to the cradle where he played for another hour before falling asleep at 10:15. He did start to wake up around 2 am but we are trying not to feed him in the middle of the night (unless of course he needs but he really shouldn't need it) sure enough I just put the pacifier in his mouth and he was out and didn't wake up until 5:45!

Today I am very sad. My Aunt/Godmother is back in the hospital. She has pancreatic cancer and in addition to that she had to have surgery a couple of weeks ago to remove her gall bladder and she has had some complications and is now in the hospital. Hopefully they can get her feeling good again. I just pray that God heals her. I want Luke to know her growing up.

My Little Man!

Luke helping carry stuff at aunt Lindsay's

Our trip to the Zoo with Chris & Becca

Luke and Aunt Lindsay at Oggis

Luke's baby book (the cover is wood)

First Laugh!!

Today Luke laughed for the first time. It was a small laugh but still a laugh none the less. For the last few days Jason and I knew he was close to laughing because he started smiling and trying to make noise at the same time. I'm so glad he did it while Jason was home. Other than that today was not a very good day. We were supposed to go on a walk with some other mommies and babies and Luke had been grumpy when he woke up but I didn't really think anything of it so we get in the car to go and he starts screaming. I thought once we started driving he would stop but no suck luck and I had to turn around and come home. He would not let me put him down the rest of the day. Thankfully it was a day my mom got off work early and she came and took over holding Luke while I made dinner and picked up the house.

Luke turned 3 months old on Monday and Jason got a half day (because they were so tired from building a huge sand castle for the Imperial Beach sand castle contest so his boss let them off early) so we went to nighttime at the zoo with Chris and Becca. We had so much fun. The animals were very active especially the big Lion. Luke woke up while we were there and got to go in the carrier and see all the animals (although he was more interested in things like wood fences than actual animals). We then went on a long journey to find some place to eat dinner and ended up at a pizza place no one had ever been to.