Presidential Weekend and then some...

over the long presidential weekend we took the opportunity to check something off our excursion list.  we headed out to the santa ynez catholic mission.  i have learned, since moving to california, that the coast is speckled with historic catholic missions.  cameron and i have made it one of our goals to see all of them together.  there are 21 total.  we have seen 7.  the distance was just long enough that a meal would need to be eaten, so we did what anyone trying to save a buck would - we packed a lovely picnic lunch!  we were glad we did.  the mission overlooked a small valley.  we had gotten a lot of rain in the last few weeks and the hills were so very green!  it was a great day and a nice view, to say the least!

while we are not catholic, we find the adoration of the virgin mary always very interesting.

cameron getting ready to made some delicious egg salad sandwiches! 

this is what wyatt ate pretty much the entire day.  he always goes back for more...

mama can always get a smile out of wyatt.

the pics below are just some randoms from lately...

look dad!  no hands!

this is actually from the super bowl.  wyatt disapproves of all the "superbowl commercial hype"

"heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!"

"duuuuuurrrrr"

the cute & clean baby after bath-time.  hooded towels are the cutest invention.

Last week photos...

in these pictures, wyatt is 13 weeks old.  cameron and i...we are 26 and 27 respectively.

this is wyatt during bath time.  he really enjoys it now!  he has found the "baby in mirror" now and last night just stared at himself the entire time.

wyatt just got done eating in this picture.  i am attempting to burp him by patting his back.  yes, he is sound asleep.  this happens often.

this is just to prove that cameron and i still exist.  and yes, that beard DID exist, but has since seen its demise

(i.e. he shaved it this weekend)

reading books before bedtime.  wyatt now is able to focus on the pictures on the pages.  it is obvious which books catch his attention more than other.

this is merely for your viewing pleasure.  i just think he looks so relaxed with spit-up all over his face.  i, myself, would not be able to handle that type of mess on me!

hopefully i will become better at posting each week with some of our highlights. 

stay tuned for more!

3 months

I will admit it...this blog will probably turn into Wyatts blog with little to nothing about Cam or myself...but that's okay - Wyatt is way more interesting than we are!

So, it's official...Wyatt is 3 months old and no longer a newborn (sniff, sniff)

But he sure is cute and keeps us smiling every day!

In the last 2 weeks Wyatt has had a verbal explosion (as much as a little baby can at this stage).  He "talked" quite a bit when he was 8-10 weeks old, but then seemed to taper off and not say much.  We think he was just listening intensely.  Then all of asudden, bam! He started talking  again - and even more so! I tried to upload a video of it on here, but it appears that blogger no longer offers that option.

Here Wyatt is laughing while playing a game I made up (no those are not my legs - they are Cameron's.  I taught him the game).  Wyatt loves it and it was while playing this game that he shared his first real laugh!

Here his is doing what he loves to do - suck on his hands. 

 i swear he is going to suck them raw one of these days!

just a cute pic of wyatt.  forgive me, i was headed to the gym.

wyatt has finally let us do more than 5 seconds of tummy time with him.  look how strong he is! he's getting better and better about sitting like that each time he does it! 

we recently attempted to transition wyatt to his crib.  he has been sleeping in the pack n' play in our room since birth.  the first night was very rough.  we thought he would sleep just fine on the flat surface of the mattress without the use of the sleep postioner.  boy, were we wrong! not 1 hour into sleep did i hear a strange muffled noise on the baby monitor.  i woke up cameron (who didn't hear a thing!) and told him to come with me to check on wyatt.  the sound was so odd that i thought someone was in the room with him.  we charged into his room and saw that wyatt had scooted all the way to the corner of his crib and had his face smashed in the corner.  he wasn't crying or anything but i dread to think of what could have happened if he slept like that!  back to our room he went to sleep, but this time we took off the newborn napper attachment.  still no sleep positioner was used and he woke up every 1-2 hours.  after that night we decided that we would use the sleep positioner.  the positioner worked and he was able to sleep for 5-6 hours straight (nothing compared to his 8-9 he slept in the napper!) and didn't wiggle off into the corner of the pack n' play.  i think we will try in a week or so to get him into his crib.  hopefully he will go back to sleeping 8-9 hours, but who knows!