D. Family Coffee Break

 *( WARNING :  These pictures will be HUGE because the occasion calls for it.)* Heads up, people!  Bug has accomplished yet another milestone.  At 3 months and 4 weeks, she is holding her head up while on her tummy.  I'm assuming that most babies have already done this by Bug's age, but every time I've ever put her down for tummy time and placed a baby pillow under her chest to help her, she just stared at the ground, never lifting her head up.  So when I went back to work, I asked Grandma and Daddy to help her achieve this milestone of holding her head up and looking forward while on her tummy.  Little did I know that she was just waiting for the right time to surprise me...and boy, did she surprise me!  Last night, after her afternoon nap, I put her on her tummy, with the baby pillow to help her out and as I waited for her head to fall forward (as usual), I saw her eyes focus in on one of the images on her tummy time mat and there it was......

This Thanksgiving, we packed up our bags and took Bug on her first ever road trip to Sacramento.  My brother and his family live there. Making trips to Sacramento is nothing new for us, so taking Bug there was pretty exciting for me.  Yes, I dreaded what could happen on the road- she could scream the whole way, but she didn't.  Because it was our first road trip, I made sure we had plenty of time to get there before the holiday traffic hit.  We decided to leave Wednesday morning.  We made our first parenting mistake on the road- we woke her up to feed when we should have let her sleep as long as possible.  So, on the way there, we made 3 stops because Bug couldn't get back to sleep.    (*Obviously a parental fail.)  We decided to leave on Saturday morning as well, to avoid the mess on the 5 freeway and made it home in roughly 7-7.5 hours (including the stops to feed).  So really we made pretty good timing! Bug had a blast with her c...

We're going on day two of no Grandma and Daddy is doing pretty good.  Bug behaved for him yesterday and things went pretty smoothly (minus one fussy moment before bed).  Before Grandma left, we spent some quality time with the Koll family.  Thanks to Uncle Pat and Aunt Liz for hosting!  A night with the Kolls is always a night full of laughs! We celebrated some birthdays...   Bug spent some time getting to know her future babysitter. :)  Apparently Sam is a kid whisperer...so I can't wait to see her in action with this kid. :P   Creepy Uncle Scott in the background. I'm not sure how many tries it takes to get these siblings to take a picture. There you go! Family shot So you're telling me Uncle Roger isn't going to babysit? Uncle Pat holding Bug's favorite book, Peek-a-Boo Mimi and Aunt Colleen holding her...cat toys?   Cousin Ethan...such a cutie pie! What ha...