It's been a while...

I haven't posted in more than a week. Basically, I was in Las Vegas for work Monday through Thursday. Friday and yesterday I was in catch-up mode. Vegas was fun. None of the flights were delayed despite it being mid-Winter, but it was also hard for me. It was my first time away from Solomon over night. That was sad for me, but it went fast. We went out to dinner all three nights and had a lot of good food and I actually drank a lot too.
I had to pump the whole time I was there, but it worked out well. I came back with a lot
of milk, so it pretty much replenished the frozen supply that Alex had to use while I was gone. It was kind of weird, especially in the Las Vegas airport, to have to tell every security person (in the extra long LV security line) that the liquid in the cooler bag I had was breast milk. I'm sure that's not the usual liquid they deal with there. Anyway, Alex did a great job the whole time I was gone. Solomon slept through the night all three nights I was gone and has done so since I got back! Let's hope that continues!!!
Solomon is doing some other new things.. He can now sit up for short amounts of time. He can roll from back to tummy now. It's so cute... I'll go into his room to get him in the mornings and there is... schooched all the way to the other end of his crib, totally out of his triangle thingy and on his side with his thumb in his mouth. He loves his thumb now. He also loves his exersaucer. He spins all the way around in it now and chews on everything very aggressively. He's obviously teething at this point. His voice also sounds different now. It's more of a high-pitched squeel. He also blows air puffs out a lot. Maybe that doesn't make sense, but that's the only way I can describe it and it seems like he wants to say something a lot more than he did even a few weeks ago. It's a fun time. He constantly giggles and loves to be tickled under his arms. It's so cute!
Yesterday, Alex had several photo shoots for work, so he had all of his photography stuff set-up already. We decided it was a great opportunity to take some photos of our little guy as well. We dressed him up in a few outfits and took some shots. They are all pretty cute, but one of the outfits/shots is absolutely adorable. Stay tuned.. I'm sure I will post it soon.
Alex and I went to Kandi's and Jimmy's joint birthday party yesterday. It was at a bar. We watched the KU game and left. It was fun to see some of her friends though, but I did have to leave a little bit early to go get Solomon. My mom and dad kept him for a few hours. I think we might let them keep him overnight on Valentine's Day for a little test run.
Alex is playing his XBox 360 right now. He is in love with it and plays it constantly. I'm hoping the new wears off of it and he just plays it once a week or something soon because it's loud and annoying. He gets online with some of his friends and they yell at each other and crack up laughing when they kill each other... Ha ha ha.. I'm laughing so hard I can hardly stand it. I guess I'm a typical girl when it comes to video games.. don't care much for them. Alex, who loves anything involving technology, is just the opposite. He is always playing "Call of Duty 4," some type of millitary game where they run around as soldiers and shoot/stab each other with various weaponry. Sounds fun.. huh? :( I will say that he always gets his money's worth out of these gaming systems because he'll spend $50 on a game and play it for hours and hours and hours vs. a board game that gets played once a year in our house.
Moving on... today I bought a printer, phone and filing cabinet for my office. I will need to remember to turn in those expenses tomorrow. I still need to get a desk chair.
I finished my book club book on the plane back from Vegas.. seriously Middlesex is one of the best books I've ever read.. FANTASTIC! Read it. Our book club was postponed due to weather to this week.
So what's everyone doing for Valentine's Day? Anything special? I bought Alex something kind of fun, but won't say what in case he reads this.