Attempting to Catch up

Well, obviously I am really bad about keeping up with my blog.  I had hoped that I could at least manage one post per month, especially since I stay at home.  You’d think I had the time.  The truth is, I do … I just am awful about following through on things like blogging, reading a book, writing a sentence per day in a diary,  working out (hahaha), taking walks a few times a week, or reading a simple devotional book like “Jesus Calling.”  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve told myself, “ok, I’ll read it first thing every morning.”  But then things happen and the day gets away from me and by the time I have time, I’m too tired.  Sound familiar?  Maybe one of these days I’ll actually be able to follow through consistently on something I want to do.  I did give up Dr. Pepper 4.5 years ago.  Right now I’m working on giving up Sprite.  Probably shouldn’t have said that as I’ve probably now jinxed myself. Oh well! Whatever!  At least I can always play catch up on the blog, right?  So here comes a long post.  That is if I can actually finish it!

Cason turned 7 months old on March 20 … and I still haven’t taken his picture with his 7 month sticker. (such a slacker … I know) His second tooth has come in and I forgot when that actually happened.  Guess that means I’ll be making up a date in the baby book!

Last week were in Kauai, Hawaii! We had so much fun (minus the horrible sleep habits we created).  Can I just say that staying in a hotel with an infant SUCKS! It just does.  You see every time they wake up you have to be considerate of those in the rooms next door.  That means getting up and feeding or rocking him back to sleep.  After 3-4 times of doing this, you give in and just bring him back to bed with you.  Sleeping in an upright position gets old real quick! I do feel bad that we pretty much took his schedule and threw it out the window.  Add a 5 hour time difference in there too.  Poor guy did the best he could and I know it could have been worse.  We are now in the process of getting him back on schedule here at home.  The past 4 nights have been a little rough.  The 7:00 bedtime isn’t working out too well.  Last night he woke up at 7:30 and I decided to just let him get up for 2 hours and hang out with us.  He went down around 10:00 and slept 8 hours.  Praise the Lord!  So tonight we won’t do bedtime until around9:30.  Hopefully that will be a lot better.  I’ve definitely learned a few things about traveling across time zones and what Cason’s needs are when we do this.  I do need to brag on him for how AMAZING he was on the planes there and back.  We went from Dallas to Honolulu and then to Kauai … same thing on the way back (just backwards).  Every time a plane landed and we taxied into the gate, everyone around us went on and on about how good Cason was.  One man even said, "That baby was born to travel!" It was a total of 13-14 hours of travel time each way. Cason, you are a trooper!!! Thank you for being so good for Mommy and Daddy! 

Our trip happened to fall over Easter Sunday ... Mommy didn't realize Easter was so early when we planned the trip.  So, no church or cute Easter outfit on Cason's first Easter.  There also is not a cute Easter family photo.  But we do have some really cute Easter beach pictures of Cason. I'll post some later (they are on AJ's computer and I still need to move them over to mine). One really cool things that happened on Easter is that Cason started CRAWLING!!! 

That's it for now. If I don't wrap it up and click "publish" it may never happen! :)