Thanksgiving in Virginia

We're back! It was quite the adventure flying to the east coast with a four month old on the busiest flying days of the year. I really was not looking forward to flying on a nonstop 5-6 hour flight with him and everything that goes along with it but...he did GREAT!  No crying until he was tired and nothing a quick few minutes with the pacifier wasn't able to fix.

We arrived on Wednesday night pretty late and he didn't really take good naps that day so he was tired. So tired that he slept from 12:30 to 6:30, it was great! He actually slept great the entire time we were there. Unfortunately last night back at home he reverted back to his old ways. We'll see what happens in the next few days and I'll give an update when I write up his 4 month post this week. We spent the day at home on Thursday and went to Fery's cousins for Thanksgiving dinner. There are about 40 or so people that are always there. They make 3 delish turkeys with all the goodin's. I regret not getting a picture of the spread with the hostess'. They always do so much and the food is always amazing! Caiden was the only baby there so of course he was the star and Fery just loves showing him off. And I have to say he is awesome around a lot of people. He doesn't mind all the craziness or people talking and people holding him, he is just the best!

On Friday Marc and I had some spa time! Marc's mom booked us facials, massages and mani/pedi's at the Saks Salon (pretty sure this was her way to get us out of the house and to have some alone time Caiden ;)...and it worked). It was so nice to relax for a few hours. We also did some shopping and I got myself a couple new pairs of sunglasses at Coach!

That night we went over to Jill & Farhad's (one of Marc's friends from high school) to see their little one. They have a little boy, Jake, that is about a week younger than Caiden. I know I say this all the time, but I wish we lived closer because it would be great for them to be friends. Again, we got home late and Mr. C slept from about 12:30 to 7am!

On Saturday, Soodie, Fery's friend, (who threw my bridal shower and baby shower) had a party and we had to bring Caiden to show him off to all of their friends. Their party's are always crazy with loud music and dancing and he did great once again. I'm really amazed that he doesn't get fussy when there is so much going on.

Wow, writing all of this makes me tired just thinking of everything we did. On Sunday we once again went out to visit friends. This time to Jehan and Andrew's new house in Fairfax. She was my roommate when I first moved to San Diego and has since moved back to Virginia, got married and had a baby! Her little one, Liam, is 3 days younger than Caiden. After that we headed to Alexandria to visit Alexis and Javed. They have Sasha, a little girl about a year and half old. See pics below!

We left on Monday and had another successful flight home. We were even able to bring the car seat on board with us because it wasn't a full flight. It was so nice having a place for him to sleep. I think we'll do this trip one more year, while he's still under 2 years old, then have people start coming to us!

First boarding ticket

Right when we got on the plane Caiden decided to take a poop. He's going at it on Marc's lap in this pictures.

Getting ready to leave the airport in the cold weather

Thanksgiving night

Great Aunt Effi

The Redskins played Dallas on Thanksgiving Day. Marc dressed Caiden in this outfit for the day.

We changed him into this more appropriate outfit for dinner.

He loved this Rainforest chair that shakes. I've had a few friends who's kids loved this one, I think we'll have to get it for the next kiddo.

Caiden and Jake

Persian tea and gaz. Gaz is a sugary, nugget treat with pistachios in it. So good.

Soodie's party

Uncle Bob

Soodie and Caiden

Caiden and Liam, the most smiley baby ever!!!

Caiden and Sasha

He had his own seat for the plane ride home

Where o where has all my hair gone!?!

Seriously his hair is disappearing more and more everyday. He still has a decent amount in the front but the back is pretty sparse. I can't wait until it starts growing back in. Until then it's definitely funny looking.

Sophie the Giraffe

I broke out Sophie today. For those that don't know about Sophie she's a $20 rubber teether that every baby needs to have. The minute I gave it to him it went straight to his mouth.

Visiting Daddy at work

The new boss in town.

Caiden's first Halloween

Our sweet little pumpkin pie. We really couldn't resist putting Caiden in a costume for Halloween and laughing hysterically at him. Poor guy. He's going to love these when he's older. Perfect for that graduation or wedding slide show. You can see from the progressions of pictures that by the end he was not happy with us.

SeaWorld!

Marc's employer had an employee appreciation day at SeaWorld on Saturday. My sister came along with us so we could all have some fun and ride some of the rides. Caiden did awesome all day long. We were there for about 5 hours and it was a pretty warm day so we tried to stay in the shade and enjoy attractions like the in-door aquariums and polar bear enclosure. The aquariums were in his league, he would watch the turtles, sharks and fish swim by (the ones that were slow enough for him to follow anyway).

Marc, my sis and I took turns in teams of 2 riding the rides. The new Manta roller coaster is sweet and Journey to Atlantis, the log ride, you get soaking wet. I'm so glad we braved taking a 3 month old and a plus is that we all upgraded our passes and now get in free this year and all of 2013! SCORE! It's so nice that we live just a few minutes away and I can't wait for Caiden to get more and more out of each trip we take.

3 months

Caiden is getting so much more active and fun everyday. He's starting to play with his toys, and he really loves his play yard/mat and will kick at the stuff hanging, he'll smile at himself in the mirror on it (which is one of his favorite things to do). If he's in a bad mood, put him front of a mirror and he's instantly smiley. I'm pretty sure he's obsessed with himself. He is talking all the time. In the morning he'll go off for an hour just babbling to himself. It literally happened overnight.

He's the bomb at tummy time and doesn't mind doing it for 5 minutes at a time. He wants to push off on his left arm and roll over so bad, he will be doing it in no time!

We broke out the bumbo earlier this week and he's pretty good at sitting up. He can sit in it for a few minutes at a time which is great so I can get him off his back to try and round out his head.

So much for that full head of hair. I noticed this morning in his bed that his hair was all over the sheet. I guess it's finally starting to fall out. :( I wonder how much will fall out, he has so much I can't imagine it all will.

He's still on the same sleep schedule he's been on for quite awhile. In bed at 7pm, wakes up around 10:30pm, 2:30am and 6:30am and eats at all of them. Marc is still doing the 10:30 feeding with the bottle. Caiden had a set back a few weeks ago and hated the bottle and would scream for 30 minutes, so I started doing one feeding a day with a bottle to get him used to it again and now he's back at it. He eats so much. If I give him a bottle during the day I'll usually put 5 ounces in it and when he's done he wants more. I'm pretty sure he's getting probably 6+ ounces at each feeding and he's eating every 3-5 hours. No wonder he's such a big boy.

He loves the aquarium in his crib. He falls asleep to it all the time. It has a remote and you can turn it off outside the room so you don't have to go in and click the button on it and possibly wake him up. It was a great registry gift!

He's still eating about every 3-4 hours during the day with a nap after each feeding. Sometimes the nap is only 20 minutes and other times it's an hour. You can really tell when he's ready for a nap. He gets a little cranky and whiny and I know it's time to take him to his crib.

He's pretty awesome and I love that I can play with him more now. I also love being able to see all the new things he learns every day. I try to take videos so I can show Marc when he gets home so he doesn't miss out. I can't believe he's 3 months already. Boy have we come a long way since those first few nights at home...I really don't miss those at all. ;)