3 months old and a road trip!

Whew! A busy weekend is over.

First things first. My sweet baby boy is 3 months old today. He's starting to laugh and giggle, and he definitely recognizes his mommy and daddy. I just love walking into his room in the morning or after a nap and he kicks his legs and laughs when he sees us. Just melts my heart into a big ole puddle.

Here is his 3 month birthday picture. Or, as my brother so eloquently put it in an email today: his "quarter-year" birthday.


Road Trip

We wanted to go up to Ottawa to visit family with Aaron. T's grandmother is in a nursing home near Ottawa, I have two Aunts and and Uncle who live there too. Normally the trip takes us about 5.5 hours from here. I was quite anxious about how long this trip would be and how it would be in the car for that long with a 3 month old.

We left Saturday morning around 8:30. Stopped at 11:00 to feed and change Aaron. Stopped again around 2:00. Other than the stops, he was AWESOME in the car. He basically slept the entire way. One of us were in the backseat the whole time just in case of a major meltdown, but it never happened. We just brought lots of things for him to look at (when he was awake, which was not a whole lot).

We had good visits. We stayed at Uncle Brian and Aunt Lyn's house. They had a bassinet for him to sleep in, which was awesome. Even better was the central air. It was friggin' hot this weekend. Poor little guy is just melting in the heat. Anyway, when we arrived, Aaron had a special outfit on just for his great Uncle who is an avid Ottawa Senators fan, and Maple Leafs hater.

On Sunday we drove out to see T's grandmother and Aaron's only great grandparent. She seemed to be just thrilled to have visitors and to see Aaron.

This was a very special visit, even though he will never remember it. She's turning 90 years old next year and is in a nursing home. This moment really made me miss my own grandparents so so much this weekend. They all would have been just thrilled and so very excited to have met him.

After visiting Great Grandma, we headed out to see my Aunt Sue. She is ill and wasn't able to travel to our area after Aaron was born, so we went to see her instead! She's been a crazy shopper ever since she found out we were pregnant. Aaron is so lucky to have so many aunts and uncles who spoil him so much. :)

Sunday evening we headed back to Uncle Brian's house for dinner. Aaron hung out with his Tante Lyn (Tante is French for Aunt for those who don't know).

And.... what Uncle Brian was waiting for. The Sens outfit.

He also met his 2nd cousin Aidan and Andrew this weekend (Andrew's pic didn't turn out so well!).

To sum up, it was a great weekend with lots of new memories (and photos!) made.