3 months old

After a week off, I headed back to work. Having never worked with a baby before, let's just say it's not fun. He's wonderful with our housekeeper, easily takes bottles, and is always happy when I get home but it's just not easy to leave a little one at home… I cried the first week to and from work, and have settled into a "dealing with it" phase. I'm working part time now and have no plan to increase my hours. We'll see what the next few months bring!

I've been posing Harry with his Portland Panda every 4 weeks, but then realized I should really be doing monthly. So here he is at 12 weeks:

"What's up with this bear?"

chatting to the camera

practicing tummy time

Oscar and Harry chatting:
https://youtu.be/A25WIoAUx2c

And lots of snuggle time:

can't put this boy down when he falls asleep when I come home from work

Who's having more fun?

Officially 3 months old:

Our Odyssey Home

I almost don't want to relive our trip back to Nairobi, but since it was our worst travel experience ever it's worth noting for posterity. What should've been a palatable 30 hour trip, turned into a 64 hour adventure in everything that could possibly go wrong…. Oscar had his own issues traveling back a few weeks earlier, with lost bags and delayed flights, so we assumed the bad luck was over. Ha!

To sum up as best I can, we were delayed for weather in Chicago, spent 5 hours on the tarmac and then couldn't refuel since there were no gates to park at. With not enough fuel to fly all the way to London they decided to get us in the air and as close to London as they could. Livi had a horrible headache when we finally left Chicago (5 hours after we were supposed to) and cried herself to sleep but actually got the best sleep for any of us (aside from Harry) for the overnight flight. We ended up landing in Shannon, Ireland (the closest airport to the Atlantic…not sure if that was a  fuel or crew time out issue!) and hung out at the airport for a day while we waited for a new plane to pick us up. Oscar threw up on the plane to London (man those bags come in handy), and by the powers that be we finally had some good luck when we arrived at Heathrow. They put us up in the Sofitel for the night connected to the airport where the kids were in heaven and we all slept soundly. 15 hours later we were back at Heathrow and miraculously made it to Nairobi without incident. Oscar picked us up at the airport and we finally made it home. Harry was a champ throughout and thank goodness he wasn't at the stage of really wanting to move yet. The only good thing about traveling alone with 3 kids is that everyone thinks your crazy and takes pity on you so you get to cut through lots of lines!

In Sofitel suite heaven. Livi's wearing a Tshirt from the "sucks to be you" bags BA gave us

Loving the food and service of the Sofitel

hanging out at Heathrow

Of course, once we were all reunited there were plenty of snuggles to go around:

paper crowns

Goodnight Gorilla

Saturday snuggles

our carrot harvest - Livi and Michael

Harry's first bottle with Debbie

Summer in Buffalo

We were sad to leave London, but looking forward to introducing Harry to the Buffalo crowd. I'll let the pictures do the talking since I'm typing one handed with a sleeping baby I don't want to put down:

playing with balloons

meeting Sam

meeting Gigi

Oscar's first birthday party - he wanted all the candles on one cupcake

chillin in the backyard

while Livi rides

haircut!

the new Elmwood Village sign

2 haircuts

stories with Grandad

enjoying the neighbors pool

Livi bonded with Audrey down the street

front porch stoopin

storytime

nap time

a dramatic moment in tornado force winds

2 months old!

with Portly Panda

tummy time

Gus wasn't cooperating so Oscar joined in

on the porch with Nanee

more nap time

Oscar's 10! His first $50 bill

St. James Place block sale spoils

Livi was in shopping heaven

Our beautiful 10 year old (He'll get his own post of this double digit year!)

singing to Harry

Livi helping make Oscar's birthday cake

How Oscar wanted to pose with his cake and new cup

he didn't want to wax to drip onto the cake so Nonny helped him out

Nonny and Harry

For our last visit to Gigi's house, she surprised us by inviting Uncle Bobby, Sam, Uncle Norbie, Aunt Cass, and Aunt Mary. It was a great visit and Harry smiled for everyone.

Uncle Bobby and Harry

Photo session with Gigi - unfortunately no one was looking at the same camera at the same time!

Last trip to Anderson's - Loganberry was a hit!

ince cream and milkshakes with grandad

only 1 is actually sleeping....