Family Pics with my Mama

I got the family pics back that we took with my Mom and the family on the 2nd of this month.  They turned out pretty good considering how short notice they were :)  I love my family!

our cute little family :)

Father and Son :)

Mama and her little man :)  

(he was sooo done with pics)

The whole fam :D

3 generations!

Mini Vacation to Maui :)

We went on a kinda spur of the moment trip to Maui this past weekend.  We went on the Road to Hana on Friday (took us ALL DAY to do it too...would have been faster without the baby or without me getting nauseated thanks to all 600 turns we had to take..twice...) and we spent Saturday at the pool at our resort and then we went to the beach for a little bit before heading back home that night. While on the Road to Hana we stopped at the Garden of Eden (which was pretty, but not worth $8 per person with a local discount, $10 if I didn't have a HI license). We took a lot of pics while we were there and they turned out pretty good too.  My favorite one is the one that Luke took of a waterlily. After the Garden we just made a few rest stops so that my tummy could relax and so we could get the boy out for a bit.  He did pretty good considering that he was in his carseat for several hours (not all at once though) the poor kid. Once we got to Hana we had lunch at the Hana Ranch Restaurant and then went to the Hasegawa General Store to look around.  We ended up going to the gift shop by the restaurant to get a souvenir to remember our trip there (since I never want to take that drive ever again!!  Makes me ill just thinking about it..).  After that we went down to Hana Bay just to look around and then we headed back to the hotel. We stopped at the Hana Maui botanical gardens that is near Hana to look around and see what they had.  It wasn't nearly as exciting as I thought it was going to be (didn't help that we were being eaten by mosquitoes the whole time).  By the time we got to our hotel we had been on that road for almost 12 hours...we were beat!  Luckily we didn't have to checkout of the hotel until 2pm on Saturday so we got to sleep in :).  We took Carlos into the pool and he seemed to like it, at least he liked it much better than the ocean.  Didn't help that the water came in a bit faster than we thought it would and it splashed him in the face :(  We'll have to wait a while before he likes it I guess.  Well that's about it.  Overall we had a great time together and  now that we've been on the Road to Hana we won't ever have to do it again :) Here are some pics to highlight our trip!
 

 taking a break with Papa

chomping on his burp rag

being cute

the waterlily pic that Luke took

Keopuka Rock (from the opening scene of "Jurassic Park")

Puohokamoa Falls

Luke and Carlos at the waterfall overlook

standing up like a big boy

us at Rainbow overlook (Garden of Eden)

Black Gold Jackfruit

pretty orchid

more orchids

Mama peacock with 3 babies

pretty guy

some falls on the Road to Hana

Hana Bay

:)

Honolua Bay (where we went snorkeling last year)

us at Honolua (that sailboat in the background was here last year too)

my stylin babe :)

see the black cloud in the water?  that's fish!!

And there ya have it folks!  We didn't get any pics of us at the beach or the pool, but we had fun there too :)  Can't wait to go back! (hopefully for longer than 2 days next time)

3 months old!!

My baby boy is 3 months old today!  It is hard to believe that I gave birth to him and we brought him home just 3 months ago.  He's so much fun to have around!  I'm so glad that I have this little guy in my life now and I wouldn't change it for the world :)  He makes us smile and laugh everyday with the cute things he does.  I am so excited to watch him continue to grow and learn new things :)  I just wish time didn't go by so fast so I can really enjoy every moment with my son.  I started taking him on a walk every evening around 6:30 p.m. so that I can get some kind of exercise and we can spend some time outside of the house too.  Here's a pic I took of him yesterday after we came home from our walk.

 He was soo tired...if only he would take longer naps during the day

He's also started to think it's funny when he bites me while he's nursing.  So not cool!!!  Anyone know how I can get him to stop doing that?  Cuz man it really freaking hurts when he does!!  And to make it worse, after I tell him no all I get from him is a huge grin, the stinker!

Anyway, other than that little issue he's doing good.  He is loving his exersaucer!  He's starting to play with the toys on it more and making more defined movements vs just flailing his arms all crazy ha ha.  He's still not a fan of tummy time, but I still put him on his tummy at least once a day if I can even if it's for 5 min.  He also likes his Bumbo more (that is unless he's hungry or tired.  then he wants nothing to do with it, or anything else for that matter).

Well, that's all I got for now I guess.  We are going on a spur of the moment trip to Maui this weekend which will be fun!  We'll be gone from early Friday morning and come back Saturday night.  I'm not sure what we will be doing other than going to the beach and going on a drive or two, but it will be fun to do something just the 3 of us :)

Anyway, I took a couple pics of him and a video today.  I sure do love this little boy :D

3 months old!! from Nicole Sullivan on Vimeo.

Mama and Papa love you soo much little guy!! 

ExerSaucer time!

My big boy loves to stand up when he is being held.  So much so that my arms get way tired after holding him up.  Because of this love of standing we got him an ExerSaucer and he loves it!  Here's a couple pics of him in it and I took a video too. 

sitting in the Exersaucer from Nicole Sullivan on Vimeo.

booboo lips and babbling babies

Carlos has quite the sad face! Luke was holding him on his lap the other day and was scaring the him by saying BOO to him in a loud voice and this is the reaction we got:

What a face! I love this kid so much! We loved and cuddled him after this was taken, so don't worry, he wasn't sad for long :)

He's also been "talking" up a storm the last couple of weeks! His little voice is soooo cute!! He likes to talk to me in the morning after I get him out of bed and then just during the day when he's happy (and full ha ha). Here's a couple videos I've taken of him in action:

chattin with Mama from Nicole Sullivan on Vimeo.

talking to Papa from Nicole Sullivan on Vimeo.


We went to Ko'Olina with some friends yesterday morning and I got a couple pics of my sweet baby and I just relaxing on the beach :)

I also took some pics of him sitting in his Bumbo like a big boy that afternoon. Luke weighed him on our scale here at home and he weighs 14.6 lbs already! He'll be 3 months old next Wednesday!! I love my lil' chunker :) He's growing up faster than I want though :( Wish he could just stay this size, but I know he will keep getting more fun the bigger he gets (until he starts to give me attitude...then disciplining him will be tough for a little bit).

can't you just stay little?

My baby is growing up too fast!!  He's staring to sit up a little bit (with some help of course) so we thought we would have him try out his Bumbo seat and he kinda likes it!  We put him in it for the first time yesterday and took some pics. Here are a couple of them:

He's also started doing this cute thing with his tongue too ha ha.  I finally got a pic of it!  He sticks it out of the side of his mouth and curls it up a little bit.  I love this kid :D

~Nicole