Time Flies!

Wow, I can't believe it's been less than a week since my last post. Tyler will be 8 weeks tomorrow...craziness! So much has happened! We took Ty on his first road trip over the weekend to visit Mike's brother and his wife in North Carolina. Dave (Mike's brother) is in the Marines and will be deployed this summer, so we wanted to make sure we were able to see him and let Tyler meet him before he left. The drive was a little over 4 hours, and Tyler made the drive beautifully! We stopped once on the way down to feed him, and didn't have to stop at all on the way home. Luckily, the car ride lulls him to sleep, and he's good for 4 or 5 hours :)

We were only in NC for one night, but Dave was able to show us the helicopter he flies and Tyler was also able to meet his Aunt Rebecca and Uncle Chad for the first time, as well as see his grandparents again.

Tyler has also been sleeping in his crib every night, so far! We put him down around 9 pm and still go in to feed him about every 3 hours or so. Sometimes he goes for 4 or more hours between feedings, but it's usually 3 hours. Right now, Mike is doing the midnight feeding, and I'm doing the 3 am feeding. It's working really well, because once Tyler's in his crib, Mike and I actually have some alone time together in the evenings! One night, though, we didn't realize the baby monitor's batteries had run out and neither of us got up for Tyler's 3 am feeding. Mike was the one who heard him crying at 6 am! I don't know if Ty woke up at 3 am, but I assume he did and cried and cried himself back to sleep :( We felt so terrible! The next two days after that, I made sure I was at his side the second he started crying. Anyway, we didn't make that mistake again, and the monitor has fully charged batteries!

Today, Tyler was holding his head up while sitting. I had to support him sitting up, of course, but he was holding his head up for several seconds at a time! I held him up by his underarms and he was pushing off the ground with his feet to a standing position AND holding up his head! My boy is so strong :) I told his Daddy all about it, and when he came home, Tyler showed him, too!