The One With The Overload

My little gator is three months and counting now, but let's pretend as you read this post that you are taken back to three months ago. What were you doing then? On vacation? Trying to figure out if it would ever stop raining? Awaiting for my very thorough and sometimes interesting posts? I can't actually tell you what I was doing then because well frankly, I don't remember. I think part of being a new mom is that your brain is on overload with worry and stress about things like poop, sleep, naps, is he going to stop breathing if I look away, and because of all of that with the addition or rather subtraction of sleep that is no longer apart of your day to day life, I forgot what I/we did all day. To sum up what life was like though I hope this extremely long post will help inform you of my little gator's life.

My parents, baby gator's grandparents, came to visit and we had tons of fun! We had lots of laughs, went to a famous Chinese restaurant, and of course relaxed.

My dad was finally meeting his first grandson!
 

 We decided to take a trip to visit my parents a few weeks later to get some much needed rest. Baby gator played with his cousin baby whimsy, and received many confused and interesting looks from her.



They are going to be best friends one day....well once baby gator stops crying and realizes there is another baby next to him and when baby whimsy realizes what the loud thing next to her is.

Baby gator surprisingly didn't get to experience rain in the swamp land, but he finally got a taste of it during our visit in the country

Baby Gator turned two months old, he started smiling and cooing a whole bunch more, I think he was practicing for our next big trip to the big city and the country.

 

 

 

Mr. Gator wanted to take a trip to our hometowns and to see his two grandmothers, so we could say our goodbyes and introduce our little gator to all of our friends and family before we left for the north. This trip included many, I repeat, MANY hours of driving. It was bittersweet trip visiting everyone.

Little gator with his great-grandmother.

Four generations separating these two sweet hands.

Little gator with one of sweetest ladies I know.

While in the country, my dad treated us very well! We had a crawfish boil and boy did they taste good! I still believe he makes the best crawfish I've ever had----way better than anything I've tasted in the swamp land, no lies.

 

The little gator himself.

Cousin bonding time, I told you....best friends in the making!

We then made our way to the big city and visited lots of friends and said our goodbyes. As I write this, I feel like we are leaving the country for forever.....eeeek!

Future bffs

 We ended our trip in the east country where baby gator met his other great-grandmother and all of her friends. Again bittersweet.

 

 

Hopefully that caught you up on everything....maybe in three more months I can catch up on our life again, just kidding. But maybe not, as I now look around and look at the many things I will have to pack and then unpack in the very near future.