It was the best of times, it was the worst of times....

The Best:
Saturday night Andreas slept from 7:30pm to 6:30am without waking. Saul and I couldn't believe it and had to keep checking to make sure he hadn't been kidnapped. When we realized what had happened we thanked our lucky stars and started to remember what normal life felt like. We could get used to this!!!

The Worst:
Monday night 7:30pm - we put Andreas to bed at the usual time
9:30 - Saul and I go to bed (on time for the first time in a while)
11:30pm - Andreas wakes up. We feed him and put him back to bed.
1:00am - Andreas wakes up again (very unusual). We let him put himself back to sleep.
3:00am - Sam calls and says that Tiffany needs to go to the emergency room and doesn't provide many details. Saul gets up and goes over to their house to babysit Zoe (who is still sleeping).
3:05-3:30am - I lay in bed trying to get back to sleep but awaiting text messages from Saul on what exactly is going on with Tiffany. Turns out she had too much calcium and was feeling pretty bad. Sam took her to the hospital and she was admitted. After the news, I drift back to sleep.
5:00am - Andreas wakes up again. I feed him again and put him back to bed -- he was drifting off in the middle of the feeding anyway. My alarm is set to go off in 10 minutes for work, so I get up and login to my work computer. I rearrange my work schedule so that I can work from home for the day and go into the office Wednesday.
8:00am - Andreas wakes up again (this time for good). Saul calls and says that someone from the ward is going to help out with Zoe so he will be able to watch Andreas at 8:15am.

Needless to say it was a bit rough working for the rest of the day. I may be starting to come down with a cold on top of it all.

But, there it is! You just never know what each day is going to bring. So it is true -- the good isn't permanent and the bad isn't permanent. But it sure is unpredictable!

On a side note, Andreas turned 5 months this weekend and has been rolling over on a fairly regular basis -- front to back and back to front. He also pushes off of the ground when he is on his back, so it is kind of like a reverse crawl. Won't be long until he is mobile!




This one looks like Andreas is taking his own picture. He's advanced, but not quite to that point yet....

Here we caught him mid-roll

First Taste of Cereal

Andreas had his first taste of cereal on Saturday March 20. He liked it pretty well, but as usual wanted his hands to be a part of the action. He is such a good eater!

New Moon Madness

Since New Moon was released on dvd at midnight on March 20, Erika was in town, and Tiffany had not yet had her surgery, the planets aligned for our New Moon extravaganza. We even stood in line at Walmart at midnight and rewarded ourselves with Twilight T-shirts! Tiffany's blog has a lot more pictures, but here are a few from my camera.

Toasting Edward with their Vampire juice:
Vampire Balls (as Saul called them) or Vampire Bites (as I called them):

Mid-March Updates

Here are some updated pictures of Andreas from early March 2010:

In his swing:
With his Abuela on her first visit:
After his first roll-over:

With his new Easter suit from Aunt Erika:



Cutest boy on the planet

4 months already

Just to keep the posts flowing, here is Andreas on his 4 month mark (actually just the ones of him in the suit with the fire trucks on it -- the other ones were around that time though).

Andreas is using his Jedi tricks to overcome the red-eye reducer on our camera -- he is tricksy that way.

A Bargain!

Recently Saul and I were talking to some friends who mentioned that they looked into the price of having a child and that the grand total for their lifetime was $240,000. After some thinking about it, we agreed we are getting a bargain. When you first go and get Andreas in the morning or after a nap, he will just be calmly talking to himself, but when he sees you, he has the biggest smile and is so happy he has to squirm around -- that has to be worth at least $10,000 per instance. Then there is the first time he laughed and all of his other upcoming firsts like when he will first walk or say "Mama" and "Papa". That's got to be worth quite a bit too. So overall, we are definitely getting the better end of this deal!


Here he is playing with his gym and wearing the outfit from Aunt Erika:





Sucking his thumb -- it usually doesn't last long, but who knows once he is able to control his arms a little more.

Saul thought he looked so relaxed here:
He is starting to grab his toys. My hair is no longer safe!
Here he is 1/2 rolling over. This is about as far as he goes, but it won't be long now.

Buttermilk Galore

This week we had another cooking catastrophe that can go down in the annals of history with Aaron's using Mapeline in place of vanilla in the chocolate chip cookies. Saul wanted to do something nice for breakfast so he decided to make waffles. We did not have any buttermilk, so I suggested using the powdered buttermilk. Due to the additional complexity this involves, I tried to explain how it all worked, but Saul balked at my lack of confidence (I think you see where this is going). My thought was, if he screwed up like I thought he might, there would be no way he would be able to use 2 cups of the powder -- the container isn't that big -- and that he would figure out to read the directions. Well, somehow he managed to pull a few cups of powder out of that tiny container. The waffles were so heavily buttermilked it nearly knocked you out. And since Saul did the taste test and didn't really understand what had happened, he ate enough of the said waffles that I am pretty sure he cried buttermilk when we watched Benjamin Button last night.

And since no post would be complete without more pictures of Andreas, here you go!

I like this picture because it looks like he is being pushed against the chair by some ultra strong g-force. Hold on kiddo!

Don't be deceived -- he HATES this outfit. I think because he wants to eat the hood, but somehow it is always just out of reach