Just a few more...

Here are a few more pics from Cabo. I love the one with Jeremy & Jeremiah... And the one of us is "okay". Not my fav pic, but proof I was there. :-)

Pictures from Cabo!

Almost all of them are of Jeremiah, but that's all anyone wants to see anyways, right? :-)

Enjoy!

So....

I realize now that I start many of my posts with "So..." I think I need to be changing things up a bit... find a new way of looking at things, or something.

Just wanted to quickly post a few pics from our Cabo trip. Once I have more time (hopefully some time this week!) I'll write up a bit about the trip itself, and link to all 100+ of our pics online.

I will use one sentence to describe each day in brief:

Day 1: Travel Day
We arrived in Cabo early afternoon, picked up our rental car and drove the 40+km to our hotel; We checked in and basically did nothing--we all fell asleep around 7 pm and didn't wake up until 5 am the next morning. High for today, 80's.

Day 2: Shopping!
Realizing our hotel did not have quite the amount of amenities we hoped for (i.e. conditioner) we drove to town to pick up a few essentials and foodies from "Mega", a Wal-Mart type store. High for today, 80's.
Day 3: Beach Day? Don't remember....
Yeah, I don't remember anything significant happening. I think that this day was maybe the day we tried to take Jeremiah to the beach to give him his first taste of the Pacific, but it may have been "Tobasco's" day... Eh. Whatever.Day 4: More shopping downtown!
We had lunch at Hard Rock (the only place that didn't serve us tacos, quesidillas, or guacamole) and then perused the shops to find that "perfect" souvenir. While I don't think we found the "perfect" one, we were happy with what we got (cheap t-shirts always good... pottery even better!)Day 5: Move to the nice hotel!
Don't get me wrong, our hotel in Cabo San Lucas was nice (the kitchenette was very handy for sterilizing Jeremiah's bottles), but the Sheraton in Cabo Del Sol, SO much fancier and much more comfortable beds. And there weren't a million people trying to sell you everything from hats to timeshare.

Day 6: Me chill, Jeremy Work
Jeremy had meetings Wednesday morning, so Jeremiah and I went to the pool and waited for him to join us. Mucho Margaritas and sun later, Mexican Fiesta time, courtesy of Forrester.

Day 7: Snorkeling Trip!
We hopped on a huge boat and went snorkeling and had lunch on the water. Well, Jeremy plunged into the cold ocean, while I stayed with Jeremiah on the boat. Then they served Chicken Sushi for lunch........... yeah.

Day 8: More chillin', more workin', and then more partying.
That about says it all. Mucho sun, mucho relaxin', mucho margaritas.

Day 9: Travel Day
Or so we thought! We did make it out of Cabo, but as you could tell from our other posts, we didn't actually make it home until....

Day 10: Arrive home.
And we couldn't be happier!

After doing all this posting, I realize that my days are a bit off, so I'll hafta update that later. Also, I tried to get a pic to go with each day, but that didn't work out quite right either. Oh well. It's late (though my mind's on 11 pm right now, not 2 am...) so I'll fix it another time. Enjoy for now!

We made it!

We just landed in DCA. Jeremiah did great, we're glad to be home!

Livin' at the Airport

So, yeah... We're not making it home anytime soon! No confirmed flights until Tuesday. We'll try standby tomorrow, but no guarantees...

Stranded in Houston...

So, our flight leaving Cabo was late leaving... We got to our connection after racing through customs right on time, only to still miss our flight... Maybe we'll be home by Tuesday.

Timeshare...

So, we're in Mexico right now, sittin' on a computer in a lil' cafe that supposedly has the best margaritas in Cabo! Still waiting for it to show up, so we'll see if they're right.

We're having a great time so far, getting some shopping in, Jeremy got quite a bit of sun (from walking to and from our car.... that's it...) and Jeremiah's being a good boy. He actually did quite well on the plane, only crying when he was hungry or dirty. The first leg of the trip was terrible, in that we had to squeeze into two seats, with someone next to us at the window. Not fun. The second flight, though, we had the whole row to ourselves, and it made it sooo much easier... Hopefully we're as lucky on the way back.

Okay, so everywhere we go, there are people asking us if we want to buy a timeshare. NO WE DON'T! One thing being in Mexico has taught is how to be rude, in that the only way to get people to leave you alone is to blow them off. So blow them off we do. I hate being rude, but y'know what, I'm on vacation! I don't want to be bothered with talk of "timeshare" or "a great deal on silver!" and NO, I don't want to buy a hat.... Grrr....

Anyways, it's been a nice trip thus far. Jeremy stuck Jeremiah's feet in the Pacific, and boy did he scream! :-) I was watching from our seats about 70 feet back, and all I saw was Jeremy dunk him, and then pull him up quickly and hold him against his chest... And then I heard, "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" Apparently, Jeremiah didn't like that to much. :-) Aww.... it took quite a few minutes to calm him down, but we were finally successful, and decided we'd try the pool from now on, which is a little bit warmer. :-) The only other time I've heard him scream that way was when Jeremy was feeding him this morning, and sneezed really loud... must have scared Jeremiah, because all of a sudden, he wasn't so fond of eating, and more fond of screaming! And scream he did! But he's okay now.

And that's about it so far. I've been trying to post pics via cell phone, but I can never get the network to authenicate my request... So they'll have to wait until we get back, I guess.

Tomorrow, we head for our final destination--Sheraton Hacienda del Mar in Cabo. We'll head back to the states on Saturday, with Sunday to recover, and then back to the daily grind on Monday. Talk to you all soon!

Oh, and if you would, please pray for Katharine and Lilly (and I guess Laurence to--might as well!) They found out last week that Lilly is breech, which makes having a home birth a little more difficult. Best case scenario, she flips in time and they can proceed as planned. Worst case scenario, they end up with a c-section. :-( So please pray that she flips and that Mom and baby make it though the whole experience happy and healthy (and that Laurence can be the wonderful supportive husband he's been thus far, even though their plans may be changing...) Thanks!

Off to Mexico!

Jeremy, Jeremiah and I are off to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, for a much needed vacation. Jeremy actually won the trip at work, for being so awesome at what he does. Yay Jeremy!

Anyways, I gotta get to bed to get at least a couple of hours of sleep. We'll be sure to try to post at least a few pics while we're gone (via mobile picture message).

Have a great week! See ya Saturday!

How 'bout a few more...

We still haven't figured out what color his eyes are gonna be... some days they look green-ish brown, others just brown, others just hazel... So who knows! In this pic, they look kinda blue... Hmmm...

So, he doesn't like "sitting like a baby" anymore... He insists on trying to sit himself up all the time. Here, he's trying to do just that--and falling over to the side doing it. Such a big boy already!

Such a concerned look... But how 'bout them cheeks, huh?! Doncha just want to eat them up! SOOO CUTE! I love the chubby cheeks! He's stolen that title from the Stephin-Bunny... "Chubby Cheeks!" So cute!
Now that's the happy baby I know and love! He's at the point now where if he sees Jeremy or me, he'll recognize us and smile... Aww, it melts your heart!
That's his "duh" face. Has it's own kinda cuteness to it. Those cheeks, man... Definitely from Daddy!

Now we're just waiting for his hair to grow back. He's been losing it around the front of his head, but it's kinda starting to return... slowly but surely. It will be interesting to see what color it ends up being. It looks brown when it's all down around his head, but much lighter when he's had a bath and it's all sticking up in every direction. So who knows...

7 Weeks! (Now I'm caught up!)

6 Weeks Old (I'm a week behind...)

Better late than never!



He's liking his swing more and more. Sometimes he'll even fall asleep in it. Just don't expect it to occupy him when he's in his cuddly mood. He insists on being held then.

This pic kinda scares me... I don't know why... but it's just.... not.... normal? I dunno. It's cute. A little TOO cute... ;-)

More pics coming soon!

I promise!

Just wanted to tell y'all that.

I've been busy! And the camera's dead.... hafta find the charger before I can move the pics to the lappy and then onto the blog. Phew!

More Cute Pics

These are about a week old. You can see how his clothes are already too small (0-3 months). And now his clothes are too big (3-6 months). At some point, they'll fit just right!

SOOO Cute!

Just had to share...

These are from this morning. He's 1 Month, 1 week old.

And now he's waking up. Enjoy!

Next generation of movie posters!

Very cool stuff... basically, it's a 3D hologram... or something.

Ya gotta see it to get it. So check this out:

http://www.xyzrgb.com/holos/soccer.html

Here's the article that 'splains it all:

http://www.posterwire.com/

There are more examples floating around... I'll hafta check YouTube and see if someone posted it there, since the XYZ-RGB site had a bandwidth surge and pulled it.

He slept through the night!

Well... kinda. Almost! We went to church last night, stopped at the grocery store, and then came home. Watched the news a bit, and Jeremiah fell asleep around 11. So we went to bed.

When he started crying in the night, I woke up to take care of him and thought, "Wow, I'm not dead tired... weird." The sun wasn't coming up, though, so I knew it couldn't be too late. However, when I checked my phone, it was almost 5 am! Wow! And then he slept 'til 8:30 or so (he actually woke up at 7:30, and since Jeremy's alarm had been going off, I tried to let Jeremy take that shift, but no amount of hitting or kicking would get him out of bed... apparently, Jeremiah could wait, because he fell back asleep.)

I won't call it officially, but that's the longest he's slept yet! Ah, things are getting better... :-)

New Swing

So we bought Jeremiah a swing. It's pretty neat, in that the seat is just his car seat--it snaps into the swing, and off ya go!

Only thing is... I can't tell if he likes it or not... What do you think?

"Check me out, ladies!"

"I am LARGE and IN CHARGE! You know you want soma dis!" :-)

My Big Boy!

Went to the doctor's today for his one month check-up. He weighed in at 12 lbs, 2 oz, up 13 oz from the last time he was weighed (only 5 days ago!), and has lengthened out 1.25 inches since he was born. Look at that belly! :-)

Everything else is going well. He's still nursing "part-time" and getting formula the rest, but obviously it's not doing him any harm--the kid's a weed! There's a lot more to that for another time... It's complicated. I'm hoping to get some good news soon...... keeping fingers crossed!

Hopefully, birth announcements will be in the mail this week! Keep any eye out!

Super Bowl Sunday... Jeremiah is 4 weeks old!

Well folks, it's Super Bowl Sunday... I'm not really sure which team I want to win - guess I don't care as much since the Steelers aren't playing. Interesting that this year's teams include two black coaches (first time a black coach has made it to the Super Bowl) and both coaches are Christians. I saw an interview this morning on the NFL Network with Herm Edwards interviewing both coaches. They mentioned their Christian faith -- speaking of which -- did anyone watch the live interviews of the Hall of Fame inductees yesterday? No? Well, I did... The best was probably Michael Irvin, former WR for the Dallas Cowboys talking about his faith -- and thanking my man T.D. Jakes down there in Dallas for being his spiritual advisor. He really wrapped his faith into much of his 30 minute Q&A. Bet it didn't make Sports Center last night, but oh well.

Now let's talk about how cute my kid is? :) He's been smiling since the day he was born and I tried to capture that a little bit this morning in bed at the 4-week mark! We'll find out how much he weighs tomorrow. I won't be there -- I'm flying out to California in the morning and then over to Denver Tuesday evening before coming back to DC on Thursday. I put off meetings last quarter for work since I didn't want to risk being away for Jeremiah's birth. My guess is that he weighs in at 11lbs, 10ozs tomorrow (he weighed in at 11-5 last Wednesday). Remember, he weighed 10-11 at birth, dropped to 9-5 the first week and then started gaining.

Hope you enjoyed the pics!

Jeremy