Johanna in Austin!

EDIT: I added about 5 other pictures of the weekend here, but they are not showing up! Will keep trying. Check back!

We had the nicest weekend! Johanna came to stay with us from Friday-Monday morning, and we had the best time. Absolutely perfect, gorgeous weather: 75 to 80 and sunny ALL weekend. We were very ambitious and spent a lot of time with W out and about! Went to the Zilker Garden Festival, out to lunch at Shady Grove, dinner out at the Oasis... walked around South Congress, it was fun to show Johanna the town. William was just exhausted from his tourguide duties, as evidenced in the picture of him conked out in his carseat.

He absolutely loved her (and the toy shark she brought him, plus the PSU onesies from Aunt Jen!) and was flirting away all weekend.

We miss her to death already. Thank you so, so much for coming to see us, Johanna!

Back to the daily grind today!

On the agenda this week: continue with solid foods. William suddenly began doing well with oatmeal cereal at the end of last week, so we will keep eating that twice a day. Lots still ends up on the bib and all over baby and Mommy, but he is now opening his mouth wide for the spoon. Dr. Cepeda said to go ahead and try fruits and veggies, too, so we have bananas ready and waiting. Very exciting!

Where are my teeth?

At W's 4-month appointment a few weeks ago, the Dr. told us that it looked like W would be teething soon. He is drooling up a storm, and puts EVERYthing in his mouth. It's hard to catch a picture of him without a finger, thumb, entire hand, or toy in there. No signs of any poking through yet... but I did buy a few teething toys to put in his Easter basket. Hopefully we won't need them before then!

William has been discovering his vocal cords this past week with lots of funny new sounds. A few squeals, one VERY loud scream, some new giggles. There's a new YouTube video of him laughing at his Daddy: http://www.youtube.com/user/ErinEschWilliam#p/a/u/0/nLgCrKeaXPw

We are all very excited that Aunt Johanna is coming to Austin this weekend! Cannot wait to show her around town and introduce her to the little man. It was also great to see a special Ms. Luxton who was in town this weekend. We miss her!

Happy St. Patty's Day...

18 weeks... and "Spring forward!"

The time change was NOT well received in our household! It was absolutely gorgeous out on Sunday (80 degrees!), and we took a family hike to really enjoy the sunshine.

William was apparently not thrilled with the confusion to his normal sleeping schedule, as he woke up 4 times last night. Needless to say, I am a bit of a walking zombie today, but that's ok.

Wish we could somehow get back to the few glorious weeks when he slept through the night (well, 10-5 a.m., which was pretty darn close)!

We had several more roll-overs this weekend which is still exciting, and perhaps the biggest news of the past week was that Dr. Cepeda told us we could begin trying solids! William's first food has been rice cereal. Not sure that more than a drop has actually gotten into his tummy, but we will continue to try 2 times a day. The faces of protest that he makes are pretty funny!

4 months old!

Visitors!

We had such a fun weekend - Lisa and Kara came from NYC! We were sad that Eric "Bananaman" couldn't make it, his flights were cancelled, but hopefully we can reschedule soon!

William was smitten with his 2 pretty new friends :) We were very busy - went out to brunch, dinner, a movie at the Drafthouse, shopping, and Esch watched him one night so Mommy could go out for a drink with the girls. It was so great to see them and have them in Austin! We even felt the need to ALL buy Texas shirts to mark the occasion. William watched the Oscars with us on Sunday night, and made the big night even more exciting with his second roll-over ever! We all got to see it. Very fun.

We'll miss them!

Tomorrow our little baby is going to be 4 MONTHS old... can't believe it. We have his 4-month appointment the next day, so I'm looking forward to that, can't wait to see how much he weighs and how much he has grown since his 2 month visit. Stay tuned!

Rock n' roll!

We have a roller! Very exciting! William used to hate "tummy time," but we have been being good about it lately and still making him do a bit each day. He has been really close to rolling over for a while now, and today he did it for the first time!

It was a slow-motion roll - great idea, William, safety first! Might as well take it slow your first time trying something new :)

He was on his tummy and as he has been doing lately, looked like a little airplane - hands out, head up, wobbling from side to side. He got all the way over onto his side, and I could tell he was about it do it! He actually got stuck like that for a few seconds. I grabbed the video camera, and sure enough, a few seconds and after a Herculean effort on his part, he did it! Very proud. We'll see if he realizes his new powers, and if he does it a lot now. We're now on our way to a mobile little man, soon the days of him staying where we put him will be over!

This weekend we had a few other firsts - W's first hike (we went to Bull Creek, the picture above with Dad), AND his first time to a bar. Before you call Child Protective Services, don't worry. We were meeting Rob, and our friend Annie who was in town from Philly for dinner at El Chile on Saturday. There was a 30-40 minute wait (I almost cried at hearing that, because who knew what William would do... my whole plan and schedule for the night was now off! Gasp!). So we went to an outdoor bar next door that thankfully had rocking chairs on the patio. Wrapped W in a blanket, rocked away, and he fell right asleep. When the restaurant called us to say our table was ready, he kept on sleeping, and did through most of dinner. It was a great success! I definitely felt a little funny holding my baby at a bar, but it was laid-back and outside. It was quiet and dark, it worked out well! He is so worldly.

VIDEO of first roll: http://www.youtube.com/user/ErinEschWilliam