Spring break, crawling and other new adventures

A few weeks ago, Brent, Myles and I went on our first family vacation for Spring Break. We drove the 1000 miles to visit Brent's sister Chrissy and her husband John in Apollo Beach, Florida. I was really concerned about how Myles would do in the car on such a long trip, but I think he actually did pretty well. Of course, he definitely had an "I'M DONE" point, but overall he was pretty good. He slept and played and slept....and eventually freaked out when he was ready to be out of the car seat. But, we were able to make the trip over the course of two days, so it wasn't tooooooo bad.


It was great to visit with Chrissy and John, and Myles had lots of fun snuggling and playing with Aunt Chrissy and Uncle John. :) On Sunday we went to the beach and Myles got to experience the sun and surf for the first time. AWESOME! He was so stinking cute in his little swim trunks and sunglasses. Adorable.



Coming home was hard, especially going back to work and sending Myles back to daycare. However, there are only 6 more weeks left of school and then we can all hang out all the time again! :)

Since we've been home, Myles has REALLY started being mobile. He's army crawling still (belly on the floor), but that kid can MOVE! He's very fast, so we really have to be on our toes at all times. He's also been trying to pull up. He can pull up pretty easily on us using our hands as leverage, but today he actually used his crib rails to pull himself up to standing in his crib! I watched the whole thing on the video monitor, which was pretty cool. I went in to get him and he just grinned this HUGE grin because he was so proud of himself. :)

He's also "talking" more and more. Dada is still his phrase of choice, but will occasionally say Mama. If you try to prompt him to say Mama, he'll usually shout DADA back at you. Not sure if he thinks he's saying Mama when he says that or if he just is telling us that he prefers to say Dada....

We just got his 9 month pictures taken and this was by FAR the most challenging photo session yet. The photographer would set him down in a sitting position and Myles would flip over and start crawling...cute, but not exactly good for a picture. Eventually she gave him a bouncy ball to play with, which kept him occupied long enough to get a few cute shots. We also took a family photo, and we had a rough time getting that one too. He's been really into sticking his tongue out lately and he did that pretty much the whole photo session. So....our family photo that we ended up with totally cracks me up. Brent and I are all cheesy and smiley and our goofy son is trying to touch his nose with his tongue.... Hmmmmm.....wonder where he gets that goofiness from???? LOL