Rock Star

Orange sunglasses and...

a biker t-shirt...

Mothers, lock up your daughters :)

Florida!!

Lil' fryebaby and I (along with Mom and Marcus) surprised my Grandma Lou and Fred down in Florida this weekend.  We took our first flight and stayed in our first hotel.  And...hopefully it comes as no surprise...he's been great!  He did awesome on the flight, slept wonderfully at the hotel, and has been in a good mood most of the time.  The heat down here in sunny Florida has been a bit of an adjustment, but nothing we couldn't handle.

Mom and I managed all this on our own at the airport!  :)

First night meeting my great grandparents! 

At the flea market with 

Grandma Jen and Grandpa Marc...that place was wild!

You get to wear short sleeves and shorts when you head south in March!

And cool sun hats!!

And Mommy took me to the Gulf of Mexico...the water was so cold on my toes!!

But, the best part of my trip to Florida was surprising my great Grandma Lou...she said this was the best surprise of her entire life :)

New favorite pic

I captured this moment on my iPhone this morning while getting ready and entertaining the little man in our bed.  This is probably my new favorite pic.  Melt my heart...

Awake!

We went out to dinner last night with lil' fryebaby and he was wide awake!  Usually he falls asleep in the car on the way and the background noise of the restaurant keeps him snoozing.  But not last night!  He was wide awake and seemed to enjoy himself.  I suppose this could be the beginning of the next phase...where date nights will not be so predictable :)

Sleeping through the night...almost

LIl' fryebaby has been sleeping through the night recently, going about 8 hours before he wakes up.  Not 100%, and not on the same schedule every night, but enough that we're all getting a little more beauty rest these days.  I've realized, at least with this little guy, sleeping through the night has nothing to do with how much sleep he gets during the day, but rather how much food he gets.  As his tummy has grown, he's able to eat more during the day and stay full through the night (no midnight refills necessary!).  It amazes me when he takes a nap from 7-9 every night, wakes up for meal and is back down at 9:30, and able to sleep through the night.  I thought the excessive daytime sleeping would make him restless at night, but that's not the case.  Makes for easy and productive evenings at home after work...but not much quality time in the evenings.  Guess this just adds to the allure of the weekend!

All this sleeping and eating has lil' fryebaby tipping the scales at about 15 1/2 pounds.  I have no idea how this compares, but he seems healthy to us :). Check out the latest pics and you be the judge...

Key Lime Cupcake?

First, let's just take a moment and note that lil' fryebaby is so good that I had time (and energy) to make key lime cupcakes this morning, while home on a snow day.  Wow :)

And second, which key lime cupcake would you want to eat up?!?

Cuteness

This blog is especially for the grandparents...just sharing a couple recent cute pics.  

First time wearing blue jeans!  

He'll be three months old this week...crazy!  My goals for the upcoming month are to play with him more.  Get on the floor, more tummy time, work on sitting, read more books, etc.  It's hard to find time in our short day to just "play", but I'm excited to try.  Stay tuned for pics and videos to document our progress (and not just how cute he is ;-)