Playing catch-up...

It's been kinda busy around the Sullivan house lately which makes it hard to keep up with blogging, but since Carlos is down for his afternoon nap I thought I'd take this time to try to catch up.

Lots of fun things happened during the last couple weeks of October!  Carlos now has 2 teeth on the bottom (with more coming in on the top I think) and he has been crawling and cruising like crazy now!  Good thing we invested in a couple safety gates ha ha.  Here's a pic of him after he pulled himself up.

Look at those chunky chunky legs!!  I just love this kid :)

On the 29th Luke and I were able to go on a date to see Cirque Du Soleil: Alegria thanks to my wonderful friend Cammie for watching Carlos for us!  We had a blast and it was the first night since Carlos was born that we got to do something with out him!  Definitely felt odd not having to hold him or keep him entertained, but it was a great night!

On the 30th we went out to breakfast in Kaneohe with some of Luke's co-workers and then went to Bellows AB Beach for a couple hours before heading home to go to the Stake Trunk-or-Treat that night.  Here are some pics of us at the beach.

 

waiting for the tide

you can't see this, but he's freaking out

as you can now see in this photo

now he likes it

stomp stomp stomp!

my cute beach baby

Halloween was so much fun this year!  I credit that to having our little man with us now :)  He was a monkey this year (and a darn tootin cute one at that!).  Instead of going Trick-or-Treating with him we decided to just go to the Trunk-or-Treat that my stake put on this year.  Here are a couple pics of us there with my friend Cammie and her little family.

Zorro and his side kick Monkey Boy (who got too hot in his costume so we took off the top)

my fussy monkey

Cammie and I
She was a Wench and I was a Vampiress

we put him back into his costume when we got home...he was one mad baby for a bit

my happy guy

showing of the tail

my big boy

look at those chompers!

me in my costume

me and my lil Monkey :)

in his "1st Halloween" jammies

this sums up their relationship...ha ha

I also got some cute pics of him with his pumpkin that I painted for him too.

love this boy

trying to pull himself up

tada!

my lil punkin with his pumpkin :)

Hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween this year!  I know we did :)  And now I can blog about the current month :P

6 months old and doin fine :)

Carlos turned 6 months old today!!  I can't believe it's been half of a year already!  He'll be one before we know it!  We took him to his well-baby appointment today.  He weighs 16 lbs, 13 oz and is 25 in tall!  I thought he weighed more than that, but he's still around the 50th percentile so he's doing great :)  He had to get 4 shots today though, but he was a trooper.  Luke made me hold him down this time :( (the turd). We get to go back in 4 weeks to get the second part of the flu shot for him.  Luke and I are getting our flu vaccines tomorrow, joy...better to be safe than sorry!

Other Carlos updates include that he is crawling really, really well now; has started to pull himself up on the furniture and cruise around the living room (that we have to box him into ha ha); he sits up all by himself, and has his first teeth coming in on the bottom!  Teething is not the funnest thing to experience so I'm hoping that his pain lessens sooner rather than later so that he can get back to a more pleasant sleep schedule (and so I can get more sleep again).  Let's just say that teething tablets and Tylenol are our best friends at the moment :) Oh, and he has started to really like rice cereal now and likes to "help" us feed him still ha ha.  Now I just need to be better about giving it to him everyday along with trying out new foods like carrots and sweet potatoes.  The doc said that when we introduce a new food to be sure to give it to him every day for a week before trying something else.  That way he gets used to the food faster and tries more new things.  I am also going to try to teach him how to drink from a cup and/or a sippy cup too.  He still won't take a bottle or a pacifier so I won't have to worry about trying to get him to break those habits and get him to take the cup instead.  Anyway, that's all the news I have for now.  Hope everyone is ready for Halloween!!  Carlos is going to be a monkey :)  Can't wait to put him in his costume and take LOTS of pics!!  Have a fantastic rest of the week everyone!

Love to you all!

~Nicole 

painting!

I painted the downstairs bathroom last week and finally got around to taking pics of it last night so here they are.

Quarter of a Century and other fun things

That's right folks, I'm officially 25 years old.  I can now get the discounted price when we rent a car.  w00t!  This year we didn't get to do anything special on my actual birthday because Luke had to work that night so we waited until the 17th to go out to eat.  I did get to take a nice nap on my birthday and the boy and I went on a walk later that day though :) 

So, to celebrate my turning a quarter of a century old we went to my favorite place, Red Lobster!  I love that place and I especially love that my birthday falls during shrimp fest every year!  I love love love their shrimp scampi!  And the biscuits are to die for!  Sadly, I didn't get any pics of us at the restaurant, but we had a great time with friends :)  I had Luke take a few pics of me after we got home and the boy was in bed.  And here they are:

 Have I mentioned that Luke loves to take TONS of pics so he gets all kinds of poses from me.  He also feels the need to be a complete goof so that I smile.  That man sure loves to make me laugh til my face hurts ha ha :)

In other news, my baby turned 5 months old on the 21st!!  He is getting so big so fast!  He is sitting up on his own pretty well (just needs a pillow behind him in case he tips) and he has started to crawl over the last week too!!  Here's some pics of him that I took yesterday of him sitting up like a big boy.

Isn't he just the cutest thing!!!  I love my little man so much! :D

This was taken on the 19th after church.  My Mom got him this before he was born and this is probably going to be the only time he can wear it :(  It gets way too hot here during the day for this kind of an outfit, but he sure looks handsome in it.

He is also starting to like rice cereal more (or at least he opens his mouth for a bite now).  I have a video of Luke feeding him and I'll post it, but it's almost 6 min long so you have been warned.  I also got a video of him "crawling" last night that I shall post too :) (don't worry, it's shorter than the eating one)


Eating rice cereal from Nicole Sullivan on Vimeo.



Crawling! from Nicole Sullivan on Vimeo.


That's all I have for now.  Hope everyone has had a great month so far!  October is just around the corner and that means.... Halloween! :)

Wegener Family Photos

I got the CD of the family photos we had taken at the Wegener Family Reunion this past June.  Here they are!

  The whole gang at Bear Lake

 All of us by "the Tree"

 All the Grandchildren

Plus the first Great-Grandchild :)

The Johnston Family :)

My cute little family :D

tuckered out...

this is what happens when one has way too much fun jumping lol

I was in the other room on the computer and could hear him getting a little fussy and then he got quiet so I went out in the living room to check on him and this is what I found.  Don't worry, he was put in his swing after these photos were taken :)