Baby Trenor

Monday, May 2, 2016

From Crawling to Standing

Seems like he just learned to crawl, and yesterday he pulled himself up to standing for the first time!

He's still crawling everywhere, getting pretty fast, and getting into everything. It's been a busy couple of weeks, so the rest will be told through video and photos!

Request from daycare: shoes please!

Afternoon trip to Quest...

Crawling around and helping in the bike shop...

Saturday mornings, truckin' around the house...

Mountain biking in Dupont...

...and a post-ride stop at the Canteen

Silly sleeping position and Sunday morning snuggles...

Sunday bike ride up the watershed towards Saluda...

Front yard sittin'...

While mommy was out of town, hanging out with Daddy and Grannie...

Dinner with neighbor friends!

And finally, caught up to this past weekend...

March of Dimes Walk

Hello! You weren't trying to sleep in, were you?

Lastly... we're calling this Dargan's first word: "Uh-oh"

It comes out more like "Ah-aahhhhh" but he says it whenever he drops something. It's so cute! I'll have to get a better video sometime, but this is what we've got for now.

Friday, April 29, 2016

First time traveling for work since Dargan was born, and first time being away longer than a weekend. I went to Pittsburgh for work training last week - left Monday morning and came back late Thursday night. It wasn't as bad as I'd anticipated, but 4 days is a long time to be gone!

I was mostly nervous about pumping and dealing with transporting milk home, but it all went really well! I got tips from some other mamas at work who do a good bit of traveling. I pumped in the Atlanta and Pittsburgh airport, both of which had proper facilities (way to go, ATL and PIT!).

ATL nursing pod - kind of like a port-a-potty for pumping!

PIT had an entire room

While I was in Pittsburgh, I only pumped 4 times each day - first thing in the morning, lunch, right after class (~5:30pm) and before bedtime. The training facility had a little room set up for me and let me use their freezer & fridge during the day - it worked out really well. I froze all the milk I pumped and was able to keep the coolers packed with ice for the trek home. I had a lot of luggage - suitcase, pump, and cooler - on the trip home. Thankfully, no problems getting through security or taking my stuff on the airplane. HUGE relief.

Pittsburgh itself was nice - not like what I expected of a big city - really lovely!

Went to a nice park (North Park) to do my #10kTuesday run

and found a great restaurant there for dinner

On Wednesday, my colleague and I went to The Church Brew Works for dinner and some brews...

... then went to ride the Duquesne Incline and see the city at sunset. So pretty!

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Oh, the mobility!

Yes, Mr. Dargan has not stopped moving since he figured out how to crawl a couple of weeks ago! Talk about exhausting. Each of these new milestones is both exciting and terrifying at the same time.

We've installed new baby gates, which of course have attracted lots of attention...

He's also been pulling up to his knees...

And getting up on all fours with his hands and feet...

I don't think he's close to walking/standing yet - still a little unsteady - but oh boy it's coming!

Last weekend was great - the weather was perfect all weekend, and we didn't have any "obligations", just a nice weekend to spend together as a family! On Saturday we went to Pleasant Ridge, where Scott and I took turns doing loops on the mountain bike trail, and spending time in the park with Dargan in between.

Sunday we took a bike ride to downtown to see the bike race - the National Cycling Criterium Championships. A criterium is a race on a short loop or track where riders aim to do the most number of laps in a given amount of time. The "loop" was a figure 8 through downtown Greenville, so we got to see the riders often. Dargan enjoyed ringing the cowbell and clapping for the bikers!