Welcome to the Neighborhood

We have some new neighbors that just moved in a couple months ago. We were SO excited to see them move in, as they are about our age and have a 2 year old. This is very important, as Alex pointed out at our first HOA meeting, "Most of our neighbors could be our parents!"

Back to the story... their daughter's 2nd birthday party was on Saturday, and they invited us to it when we stopped to chat with them while on a walk the week prior. So, at 4:00 on Saturday, we get Bryce all dolled up in his 'party outfit' (jeans, green checked button-down, and green sweater vest) and head over to the party. We were having a great time mingling, and Bryce was having fun in the daughter's outdoor swing. He looked so relaxed, swinging back and forth in the breeze. Then, out of the blue, vomit! Not spit up, vomit. Like the projectile kind. All over himself, the swing, the driveway.

I felt awful... first, because we are the bad parents that swung their child so much that he got motion sickness (in all fairness, we didn't know he GOT motion-sick. This explains why he didn't like his baby swing much!) And second, because we hardly know these people. They were so nice to invite us to the party, etc., and our son puked all over everything. Luckily, we live just a few houses down, so I scooped Bryce up and ran off to change his clothes. While we were gone, Alex hosed down the swing and driveway.

Horribly embarrasing. But, the neighbors were pretty cool about the whole thing. Turns out they aren't germ-a-phobes (we aren't either), and as soon as the swing was deemed 'clean', their kid was in there... sans motion sickness.

Crawling wasn't fast enough...

Out of the blue, Bryce learned how to work his walker. Literally, he's had it for 4 months now, and never went more than 6 inches at a time - backward. Then tonight while I was cooking dinner, he started running. Check him out!

'Out' as long as he was 'In'

Bryce had his 9 month checkup yesterday. He is doing great - very healthy and happy... and BIG! He is 30" tall (95%tile) and 23.5 lbs (slightly off the charts!) At least he's proportionate, right?

Here's a few pictures we had taken about a month ago for Alex's birthday.

March Update

It's been a while since I posted, I know. But now that I have a crawler, he's keeping me much busier! Seriously, who knew that learning to crawl also teaches you how to open a drawer and pull its contents out? I see babyproofing in our future for this weekend.

Swim lessons continue to be great. Bryce is able to swim underwater for 4 seconds now, which makes him the Star of the Under-One-Year-Olds! He's so cute under there; I can see him looking up at me through the water. But he's a champ - no coughing, just a "what just happened?" look when he surfaces.

Alex's birthday was last week - shout out, honey! We went to dinner with some friends on Saturday night, then saw an 80s cover band at the Glass Cactus. They are great and dress like Revenge of the Nerds. Classic.

I've got a crawler!

Bryce is still perfecting his technique, but he's definitely on the move! Last night he was only doing a couple of steps at a time, but he's up to 5-6 at a time now.