Highchair

Andrew being a busy body in his high chair

Today I got out Andrew's highchair to see if he would like sitting in it at the table. He loved it! I'm really glad he liked it because eating dinner has become so hard to do with him. He just sat and played with toys on his high chair for about 20 minutes. It was great! He is getting so big and smart. He could sit up by himself in the highchair. Today we went out to Lincoln Road to Coldstone and got some ice cream. We got a buy one get one free deal. Andrew loves going out to busy places where he can watch all sorts of people. I think he just likes to show off how cute he is, haha. He smiles and gets super excited when there are lots of people around. Maybe we have a social little guy; he didn't get it from me. I still have a hard time talking to anybody. Brandon's parents are going to come and visit us in a week or so. I am super excited! It's always nice to have family come and visit :)

Bubble fun :)

    This week I have been trying all sorts of new things with Andrew; we are getting bored of the same stuff every day. I went and got him some bubbles and he thought it was so fun! You can't really tell in the video, but earlier when i was blowing bubbles at him he was laughing so hard especially when the bubble would pop on my face, haha. I also have started putting Andrew on his tummy with the boppy pillow underneath him. He likes tummy time a lot better when he can sit up a little more. I got Andrew his first sippy cup as well. He doesn't really get it yet but he likes to bite the spout part as hard as he can, haha.
    I joined a USTA tennis league that is going to start soon. I am really excited to start playing some tennis again! It is a flex league which means we schedule the matches with our opponent to whatever time we have available, there is no set schedule so it is nice that it will work with Brandon's random schedule. I took Andrew out to the tennis court the other day so I could practice my serve. He thought it was hilarious. Every time I threw the ball up and hit it he cracked up laughing; it was really cute.

5 months old, 1st time eating!

Andrew has been trying to grab our food for quite a while now so I decided to let him try some rice cereal. He loved it! I think he liked having the spoon in his mouth more than anything, but it was still fun. I got him a fun mirror too that he thinks is really funny. He is such a cutie :)

Almost 5 months old!

     Andrew will be 5 weeks this upcoming week. He is getting so big! I went to buy him some socks the other day and he has to wear 18 month size socks. His feet are huge! He really has liked sitting up by himself now. He can't really sit up too long without leaning on something, but he is getting closer. I am really ready for him to start doing something new; it's back to the stage where I don't know what to do with him all day. He is so active and wants to do everything but he just can't do things yet. Brandon has had a pretty bad cold this past week, and I got the tail end of it as well. Brandon's big test weeks are always is rough on us!

Hockey Game

      Friday night we got to go to a Florida Panther's hockey game. Brandon's friend from medical school got us really awesome tickets for free :) We got to sit in the sky club where we got to have free food and soda. It was great! Andrew loved hockey! The minute he saw the rink his eyes went so big and he could not look away. It was so cute. Even when it got really loud in the stadium he would just smile and get really excited. He had such a good time. We were worried he was going to be cranky and scream the whole time because he was not very happy that day, but he did so good. He fell asleep in Brandon's arms for part of the game and woke up every time a team scored. The panthers lost, but it was still a really fun game to go to.

    Andrew can sit up by himself for about 3 seconds now. He is getting closer to being able to just do it on his own. He still tips sideways a lot though when he sees something he wants. Brandon got to go kite-boarding this past week as well. He has wanted to do that for a while so it was super fun for him :)

4 1/2 months old

 Always has his thumb in his mouth!

 Some of his favorite toys! 

Andrew has been pretty sick lately :( He has had a pretty bad stomach ache with diarrhea for the past week and a half. I took him to the doctor this week and she said it is probably just an enterovirus and we just have to wait till it goes away. She said we could try giving him some probiotics but it is so hard to get anything down him; he will hardly eat my breastmilk right now. It has been really draining. He seems to be feeling a little better these past few days but still has a bad tummy ache. It has been the hardest trying to get him to take a nap. He just stays up all day and then is so cranky he doesn't know what to do with himself. I have just been taking him on hundreds of stroller rides to get him to fall asleep; at least something works still. He is super happy in the stroller so thats why he looks so happy in the pictures, haha. He also loves to pose for the camera once I get it out. He lights up and starts modeling and smiling; it is so funny! Yesterday when he was super cranky I put him on the couch and got out the camera and immediately after he saw it he started smiling big smiles. He is a funny little guy. So we have been taking lots of pictures as well, haha.

Tonight we get to go to a hockey game. Brandon's friend got us some free tickets, so it should be really fun if Andrew doesn't scream the whole time. He usually does better when we are out, so hopefully it all goes well :)

This week

Well my Mom left on Thursday this past week so it's now back to just us here. It was super fun to have my family here for the Christmas break. And my mom got Andrew to start sleeping a little better at night, so that has been really nice! Now he wakes up around 4 to eat instead of 2. So that gives me a longer stretch of sleep which is awesome! Yesterday we went to the pet store so Andrew could look at the animals. He loved it! The birds were his favorite to look at, but he also thought the fish were pretty fun. The weather has been really cold the past couple of days. It has been around 55-60 degrees with a really chilly wind. So I hope things start warming up again fast.

New Years, heat game

     Brandon got home from the Dominican Republic on Friday. He was gone for 5 days. It felt so long! It is the longest we have ever been apart. He really loved it there though. He went down there to educate the people there on hypertension or high blood pressure. He went with just a couple of other medical students. He got to go for free because they needed someone to go who spoke Spanish. So that was super awesome that he got a free trip. Brandon said he was really impressed by how poor the people live and yet how grateful they are and how happy they are. He said they had pictures in their schools of the poor kids in Africa how blessed they are in comparison. Brandon said the people really needed the help learning about blood pressure. He said some of the blood pressures they took were somewhere around 220/180; just super high and the blood pressure readers stopped working because hey were so high. He had a really good time there and tried lots of different food. Monfongo is one of the famous dishes from there. It is a fried plantain with pork inside of it. He said it was pretty tasty. I am sure glad to have him back though; it was so long to be without him! I'm glad I at least had my family here to keep me company and help with the baby.       
       For New Years Eve Brandon and I went to a free concert down at Bayside Park. It was Ludacris and Mike Posner doing some sort of music battle. They weren't very good at all, but it was still fun, haha. Lots of people went and it was a super nice night for being out. We made it till 12 which was pretty good. I almost fell asleep during the fireworks, but I made it!
      On Monday we went to see our first Miami Heat game. It was super fun! The stadium is about a 10 minute walk from our house which is awesome :) The Heat played the Hawks. They lost in the end, but it was still a fun game to go to. Everybody loves Lebron James and Wade and a new guy named Cole.
      Andrew is doing great and getting bigger every day. His new thing of the week is that he can kiss you now. It is so cute! He sticks out his hands to grab your face and pulls you in for a kiss, haha. He thinks it is really funny too; he laughs when he gives slobbery kisses. My mom has been super helpful with they baby and it has been a nice break for me. She gets up with him all night so I can get some sleep. Although he always seems to sleep better when someone else is here, haha. But it has been really great. She goes home on Thursday so it will be back to no sleep for me again, yeah!