Speedy Gonzales!

Nugget is on the move!  He has been crawling for almost exactly one month, and he is officially in to absolutely EVERYTHING!

35 Weeks
Weight: ~18 lbs.
Length: I'm guessing around 27" or so.  He won't hold still long enough for me to measure him!

Milestones: Booger butt started crawling a small handful of days after he turned 7 months, and now he's crawling like a freaking champ and pulling up to stand holding on to things.  We're also starting to slowly introduce solid finger foods, but we're not making a whole lot of progress just yet.
Sleep: There are some days when he sleeps so well throughout the night, but on other nights, he's up every 3-4 hours for a snuggle.  We think it is because of his top teeth, but they have yet to make their arrival.
Eating: 30-32 oz. of formula, 4 tablespoons of oatmeal in the morning, a stage 2 veggie and fruit for lunch, and then a stage 2 dinner in the evening.  I'm really struggling to figure out how to introduce regular food to him without having to make something completely separate for him for dinner.  We've also moved him to a real booster seat for his meals.
Mood: Determined!  He's also been his normal silly, smiley self.  He absolutely loves to scrunch up his face and grin!  It's by far the cutest thing EVER!
Likes: He absolutely LOVES the macaroni and cheese dinner, and he's a huge fan of crawling all over the place.
Dislikes: He's not a fan of naps in the early evening, and he's starting to become uncomfortable when I leave his sight while we're at home.

Things I want to remember: I want to remember how quickly he's making leaps and how he just races around from thing to thing!

Looking forward to: Walking and talking...it terrifies me, but I'm so excited to watch him grow!

These two are the loves of my life!

We tried to get our traditional picture on the rocker, but someone was too busy trying to peer over the side to see things on the floor.  If we hadn't been there to stop him, I'm absolutely certain that he would have attempted to climb right over the side!

It was also St. Patrick's Day this week.  Normally this is my absolute favorite spring holiday, but for some reason I was just in a funk.  I suppose the upcoming prom is having me feeling a bit out of whack, but I couldn't resist getting our nugget a onesie in celebration.  We also had some friends over this past weekend, and as always, that was a blast!

His Irish eyes are certainly smiling!

California Dreamin'

Last month the nugget, hubs, and I took a long desired trip to California to visit my oldest younger brother.  Unfortunately, my brother's girlfriend had to make an unexpected trip back home to PA for a friend's father's funeral.  While we missed her tremendously, we had such a fantastic time.

My little booger was an absolutely PERFECT little traveler!  He behaved like an angel on the flights and adjusted smoothly to the three hour time difference.  I'll be honest; I was a bit worried about the time change, but I really had nothing to worry about.  He bounced backwards 3 hours and then bounced right back once we got home!

While we were there, my brother was kind enough to act as tour guide.  He took us all around the Bay Area (as much as you can with an infant anyway).  We went on the Stanford campus, saw and explored the Golden Gate Bridge, drove through San Francisco, and drove down Highway 1 to see the Pacific.  I fell absolutely IN LOVE with the Bay Area.  My brother lives in such a nice little area called Hayward.  The hubs was able to walk down the street each morning to get donuts and coffee (we should have joined him), and the whole town seemed just quiet and fun!  I wish we had been able to stay 1-2 more days to really be able to explore San Francisco and go to the beach.  I suppose nugget's feet will have to touch the Atlantic first.  I suppose we will just have to save up all of our money so that we can go back to visit...or we can just move there! :-D

After all of our traveling to get to California, nugget decided that he was going to START CRAWLING almost as soon as we got there!  Aunt M has some bad ass antique cameras that sit on the bottom shelf of their TV, and he just all of a sudden took off to get them on the first day that we got there.  Hubs and I couldn't even react ridiculously because I think we were both in utter shock.  We just both looked at each other and asked one another about half a dozen times if he was crawling.  He was, and now he is unstoppable!  I guess he was just waiting to meet his Uncle M before he hit his next milestone.  Now if only we could get a Mama or Dadda out of the booger!

Enjoy the pics below from our journey!  Please excuse their roughness.  I'm swamped by school work and prom planning, which is why this post is super late!

This was the first flight.  He was so excited and wide awake at 5am!

By the final flight, I had a not so happy little traveler.

Lochlan and Uncle M

I think they liked one another!

One of my Valentine's Day dates!

The Sanford campus was beautiful

 

A beautiful view from our drive down Highway 1

The Golden Gate Bridge

Alcatraz

San Francisco

Loves of my life!

 

We miss you, Uncle M!