1st Visit to Temple

This past weekend we took our first trip with Tyler and headed to visit my family in Temple. Tyler was a champ the ride down and the ride back. Brian and I were very thankful that he slept. :) It was nice hanging out in the pool and hearing all about my parents recent trip to Lusaka, Zambia where they spent a week loving on orphans. Tyler didn't really do a lot of sleeping on Saturday so he was pretty fussy. One of the victories of the weekend was getting him to take a bottle without screaming and he did it. Saturday it took about an hour to get him to take the entire bottle but by Sunday he sucked it dry in around 10 min. 

We have gotten the reflux under control but his gas has gotten pretty bad. As of Sunday I have removed all dairy products from my diet. This is a huge sacrifice for me since I am used to having around 2-3 bowls of cereal every day but he is worth it. Sunday we didn't end up leaving Temple until 9pm. We wanted to leave right after I fed him so he would be sleepy but we were also delayed by traffic and weather. We were willing to wait out the traffic even if we had to drive back in the middle of the night. There is nothing worse than thinking of sitting in traffic with a fussy 6 week old baby! We ended up getting back in town around 11pm. One of the leaders in my Square One (a group at Watermark for new moms) said something that I really agree with now that we have a child. The quote goes something like this... "A vacation is no longer a vacation but instead it is just living life somewhere else." 

Here are some pictures from the weekend. 

Hanging out with daddy

Tanner doing some coloring 

Hanging out with iPop

Fun with Grammy