May 27th - Bath Time

We actually had the camera close by tonight when Cruz decided he wanted to show off his big cheese smile. He smiles like this all the time but never when a camera is in his face, go figure! My favorite is when he smiles like the 2nd picture down on the left.:)

May 26th - Happy Memorial Day

It's been a beautiful weekend here and we've done a lot of relaxing around the house. We finally got my mother's day present this weekend, a swing to put on our porch! There's a picture of the three of us sitting on it below. Cruz loves to be outside whether it's in his stroller on a walk or sitting out on the swing. He's still sleeping through the night, it's so nice! He usually goes to bed around 8 and gets up around 6 or 7. He's done it 4 nights in a row now so hopefully him sleeping through the night isn't just a fluke thing:) Anyways not much new here with us, hope everyone had a great Memorial Day!!!

May 23rd

He slept through the night! He slept through the night! He slept through the night! Last night Cruz went to bed at 8 and he didn't wake up till 6 this morning!!! I'm so excited:) I hope he continues to sleep through the night now. We figured it wasn't gonna be long before he slept through the night because he had been going all night without a bottle for awhile now. He just had to figure out how to put himself back to sleep when he woke up in the middle of the night. We were having to get up 2 or 3 times a night to give him his passy or sometimes even rock him back to sleep. So after 10 long weeks of interrupted sleep we finally got a good nights rest:) Hope everyone has a great Memorial Day!!!

May 22nd - Cruz & Bob

Here are a couple pictures of Cruz and Bob. (the stoller is called "the bob"). For the first time today he actually enjoyed being in the stroller, I'm so excited! It's a running stroller so I went for a run with him earlier today and then Jake and I just got done going on a walk with him and he did so good both times. He just looks around and babbles to himself, it's so cute:) Now I'll be able to run during the day instead of waiting till Jake gets home in the evenings cause all I really want to do in the evenings is hang out at home with Jake and Cruz so usually my running would get pushed off till the next day lol. Not anymore:) Hope everyone has a good long weekend!!!

May 18th

We had a very fun visit from my mom and my aunts this last week. They were here Wednesday through Sunday so Cruz, needless to say, got very spoiled:) We had such a good time with them down here, it's always nice to have visitors out here but always sad when they have to leave. Cruz was such a trooper when they were here, we were on the go a lot between going to the beach, going shopping and of course checking out all the local restaurants:) and he was so good the entire time. Thank you Mom, June, Jacci and Jill for everything this weekend, we had so much fun with you guys and we miss you already!!! (June & Jill be ready to win our 9th straight game of pitch when we come home in June. Jacci, Jake and my mom are going down again! HaHa!)

Either tomorrow or Tuesday Jake has to fly down to Key West for work to fix one of their jets that broke down there. Hopefully he's only gone for a couple days, I guess this will only help prepare me for when he goes to Iraq in September or October.

Anyways I posted some pictures from this last week below and I'll write more later!

May 15th - Suprise Visit

Well yesterday Cruz had his 2 month check up. He weighs 11lbs 3ozs and is 23 inches long. He's in the 50% for his weight and the 75% for his height. After his appointment we headed to the airport to pick up my mom, little did I know that her three sisters all came along with her to surprise us! So Cruz finally got to meet his crazy great aunts:) They'll be here till Sunday so I'll have pictures by Monday of their visit. And they are staying down at Emeral Isle on the ocean so hopefully we can get a shot of Cruz seeing the ocean for the first time! More later...

May 10th - 2 months

Cruz will be 2 months tomorrow so Jake and I had some fun with the camera today and took his 2 month pictures here at home. If he's smiling after he wakes up from his nap I might post more later!

May 6th

I finally caught a couple good smiles on tape today!!!

May 5th

Well we had a pretty rough weekend with Cruz but I think we're back to normal. He's always been a pretty good sleeper and last week when we increased his formula to 5ozs he was going about 6 or 7 hours between bottles in the middle of the night, so that meant only getting up once in the middle of the night for us:) Well Friday and Saturday night were the worse nights we've had with him since he was born. He was up probably every half hour crying, I'm not sure what the deal was but it was horrible. Plus he did the same thing for us when he napped on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and he normally takes two pretty good naps during the day for me. So last night we decided to let him try and cry it out and see if he could work things out himself. He cried for 10 minutes when we laid him down and then he fell asleep, then he was up about 15 minutes after that, cried for 5 minutes and fell asleep and then was up once more a few minutes after that, around 8:30, and cried for like 2 minutes and fell asleep until 2:30. At 2:30 I gave him a bottle and he didn't fall back asleep drinking it so when he was done I just put him back in his crib awake and he didn't fuss once and he fell asleep on his own until 6:30 this morning. Hopefully this will continue to work and we won't have any more nights like Friday and Saturday!

Anyways here are a few pictures of Cruz from this last week. As you can tell from the photo he still doesn't really enjoy his baths yet. He doesn't scream the entire time anymore but we try to make it as quick as possible so he doesn't end up screaming ha! One of his favorite places to lay is on his changing table for some reason. He could lay there for an hour if you'd let him, not sure why he likes that so much. This last week he's really started to enjoy staring at his mobile and he likes to lay on his play mat and just stare at the stuff hanging down from it. He's also enjoying the swing more too because it has a moving mobile above it. It sure makes things a lot easier on myself to get things done around the house when I have something to entertain him like that for a half hour or so, it's amazing how much I can get done now in 15 or 30 minutes! Jake had to get his uniform inspected on Saturday so luckily Cruz was up when he got home so I could get this photo of Jake and Cruz with Jake in his uniform. O and today I caught him sucking his thumb! Isn't that cute:) We'll write more later...