Spaghetti Time

On Friday we took Cruz to New Bern and walked around down town and stopped by the park for a bit. And then after we got home we had spaghetti for supper and he loved it! He's been off baby food for probably a month now and he definitely enjoys eating "real" food. O and exciting news!!! No more bottles for Cruz, yay! For the last month I've been weening him off the bottle and for the past two weeks he's been down to just one bottle a day and the other two times he normally got bottles he'd just drink his formula from a sippy cup. Well as of Friday there are no more bottles, just sippy cups. And today we started him on milk instead of formula, what a big boy!

One more week till Nebraska.....

Clapping

It feels like I've been trying to get Cruz to clap for months now and he finally got it today. We caught it on video at lunch today. He claps at everything now!

Cruz has been becoming more brave every day with walking around the furniture and going from the furniture to a push toy and back to the furniture which also means a lot more falls for him. I swear he falls like 50 times a day! Last week he had a black eye, then yesterday he had a really bad day and ended up with a black and blue ear (I had no idea you could bruise your ear, but I guess if you hit it hard enough on the coffee table it bruises immediately) and also a big scrape on the back of his head from falling against the wall and down onto the baseboard. We had a day full of tears, poor kid! For those of you that know Jake you will understand when I say I really hope he doesn't follow in his daddy's footsteps with injuries otherwise we have many trips to the ER in the future!

A Beautiful Weekend

We had a gorgeous weekend here. We took Cruz down to the beach on Saturday afternoon and let him walk on the sand for awhile. It was a little windy down there but not too bad at all. Then we spent some time playing outside on his new slide and pushing his car around the yard. Today was even nicer then yesterday so we've been outside a lot today as well. This next week is supposed to be close to 70 every day so we should get lots of fresh air this week:) Hopefully this is a sign that spring is on the way and winter is over with!

My parents (Gary & Carmen) celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary on the 3rd so we had a surprise dinner for them this weekend. Wish we could have been back in Nebraska for it but I guess we'll just have to celebrate when we're home in 2 weeks! Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!!!

Cruz is on the go constantly now. I think he crawled for 3 weeks and now he hardly ever wants anything to do with it. He's constantly walking around the furniture or finding something he can push around the room. The minute he gets on the floor he'll grab a toy and then he's right back up on his feet going for another lap around the furniture. He started sticking out his tongue at us this week. It's too cute not to laugh and do it back at him, I'll regret it when he sticks it out at some stranger trying to talk to him in the store or something ha! (there's a picture of him doing it below) Anyways... Jake got promoted on Monday to sergeant so Cruz & I went for the ceremony. Other then that not too much going on here. Here's a few photos from this week and another video of him pushing his train...