Nathan's First Tooth!

Well. It's finally here!

We've been suspicious that it just might be here, but Nathan sounds the alarms and begins a lock down on his jaws every time we even think about checking.

But last night, I saw it with my own eyes!!

That's right! Nathan's got a tooth!! His bottom left tooth came in!Now, I know this picture is awful, but it's the only one I could get of him with his bottom jaw showing. :-/

(And don't worry, he wasn't really as terribly sad as he looks. He was just a little mad that with all his toys around him, I wouldn't let him play with my phone.)
It's been a long, tough road to get to this point... and now it's a long, tough road for me (man that thing is sharp!). So now we're working on learning lots of things.. waving bye-bye, crawling, and not biting Mama (!!!). You can imagine which one I'll be most glad when he learns.

And just so this post doesn't just have a sad baby on it, I'll add a super cute one..

This was after a long day, one second he was sitting on Freddy's chest playing with his soccer ball and the next second he was out!

Cute, huh? :)

Happy Birthday to Tracy!

For my birthday, Freddy surprised me with tickets to the Lion King, the musical! Fun!! I didn't even know it was in town (and they really aren't-- they're only here in Costa Mesa for a week). So last night, we dropped off Nathan at Freddy's parents' house and took off for our very first time leaving him for that long (so far the longest has been like an hour and a half--for Emily's wedding). And off we went! There was NO traffic at all (amazing!) and so we got there in perrrrfect timing! Here we are just before heading into the theater.

Wow. It was amazing!! We both loved it! My favorites were the stilt giraffes, the elephant, the cheetah, the antelope... actually, I loved all of it!
Here's Zazu-- he was GOOD... I was really impressed with how well they played him.And there's Simba and Nala all grown up... awww how sweet. :)I was really impressed with how they did the wildebeest stampede-- that was incredible! Overall, it was an excellent show and so much fun to be at! Afterwards we raced back to Monica's to find our little boy just as content as ever! Whew! He wouldn't take a bottle with milk for him, so they just gave him whatever of the pureed pear he would eat. As you can imagine, he was glad to see us, but was doing just fine with Grandma! What a relief! I think we were worse off than he was-- we missed him! Thank you to my wonderful husband for planning such a fun night for the two of us!