Easter Bunny Photo Time

this weekend, we took Roman to take his photo with the Easter bunny at Highland Mall. We weren't sure what to expect. as you can see he wasn't too excited about the gigantic Easter bunny. At least he didn't cry.....

Is my bath ready?

we disagree with whoever said a bathrobe for a baby is not practical!

peek a boo!

On the weekends, we would love to spend all our time playing with Roman. But we also need to get some housework done! Here are pics one of our favorite activities. Changing sheets this way may take us much longer, but we love to hear Roman's laughter and see him smile, when he has is having a good time playing peek a boo under the sheet!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Roman had a big night on St. Patrick's day! We met some friends at Manuel's for dinner. The food was delicious! Roman was loving all the attention.

Here he is chillin with Stephanie.

Sorry for the blurry pics, Mamí had a couple of margaritas!

He crawls!

Roman began to crawl for the first time. Up until this time, he was not too thrilled about it. But I think he has the idea that he can now get to places without anyone's help.

its not a marathon distance, but check him out.

Grandma and Potty Training

So Roman's grandma thought she could have Roman potty trained in a week. She always reminds us that her 7 kids were potty trained before they were turned 1. She had us buy a little potty for Roman to practice. We have had one successful pee, and he proceeded to drop off his duck block in it!

We will give him credit for not screaming and fighting the potty! He does like to sit on it and kick his soccer ball...

Aunt Lucy came to Town!

Roman had a great weekend. His aunt Lucy and his cousin Randy came to town to visit for the weekend.

His Aunt Lucy is a fitness queen, and here she is already getting Roman to do pull ups!

We had lots of fun doing what Hernandez sisters like to do... shopping! Of course daddy joined us only for mealtimes.. not a big fan of shopping. We went to the new shops at the Domain on Saturday and then the outlets in Round Rock on Sunday. He had loads of fun hanging out on the rides that are in different sections of the outlets. watch out he might wanna race in the Daytona 500!

What a champ!

Roman's ear tube surgery was today. Mamí thought it was going to be really difficult getting Roman to fast from midnight to the next day. His surgery was scheduled for 7 am today. The nurse that handled the phone check in, let Mamí know that Roman could have formula up until midnight. So maybe stayed up to feed Roman his last bottle at 11:45 pm. She didn't mind because it reminded her of how she used to give Roman a dream feed at around 10:30 pm. the baby whisperer book had a suggestion that if you cluster feed (every two hours) your baby ( not before 6 weeks) before bedtime (ie.. 6 pm & 8 pm) , and then nursed or bottle fed him at 10:30pm while asleep. This would help keep baby from waking up hungry until five to six hours later. may not seem much, but Roman was feeding 2 or 3 times a night from birth to 3 months old.
It was such a peaceful time to just stare at Roman while he nursed and slept in Mamí's arms. We stopped dream feeds when Roman was about 5 months. He was able to get all his nutrition needs during the day.


Anyway, Roman did very well today. His surgeon said he came to an cried a little but when we saw him in the recovery room he seemed just a little grumpy. After a nursing session, he was back to his old self! These pictures were of him later today after his surgery. A little tylenol makes him happy!

What weaning me? No problem!

Its official, Roman is now on 100 percent formula. We started to wean him due to mami's job schedule and mami wanted her body back. At first we thought he would not take kindly to the fact that mami's milk was not going to be an option anymore. Since, he took Mamí's pumped milk in bottles at school, it was an easy switch to formula for those feedings at the beginning of the month. Mamí had also dropped the nursing session at lunch due to the legislative session in January making her lunch hour unpredictable. The remaining (morning and evening) were the hardest. Not for Roman but for Mamí. He didn't seem to care. I supposed it was easier because he wasn't used to falling asleep while nursing. As you can see from the picture, he will drink from his bottle happily!Now that he is on formula, mami can sleep in late on the weekends. daddy can feed Roman his first bottle ( 5:30-6am), without Mamí working about her milk supply! This way Roman can take his early nap with Mamí later on.

2 more months!

Roman is now two months away from his first birthday! We can't believe how time has flown by. We had an appointment today with a Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) doctor today. Roman's ear infection hasn't cleared up and the liquid in his ear is affecting his hearing. An audiologist performed some tests today and determined that Roman's hearing is not where its supposed to be. We had to weigh the option of Roman constantly being on antibiotics or have ear tube surgery. As terrifying as it sounds to have our baby under anesthesia, we didn't want Roman to have to suffer anymore pain or digestive issues. So we scheduled his surgery for March 7th. He will be in surgery for about 10-15 minutes. Mamí is probably the one that needs to be strong. Roman's been a little fussy but he can still manage to have fun.

Ear Infections 6 & Stomach Virus 1 & Pink Eye 1, Roman 0

Poor Roman! This week has been so rough for him. Not only has his ear infection not cleared up (#6), but he got a stomach virus on Saturday. It was not pretty, the combination of the super one dose Antibiotic and the stomach virus totally messed up his digestive system. For the first day, he could not keep anything down. Then the next day, he could drink but it went right through him. Pretty messy stuff. Diaper change after diaper change. we wish we had pictures to show. Roman's grandma had to come and help us out. Mamí had to return to work and Grandma took really good care of him.. almost too good...

let me be!

Maybe Roman will crawl. Why are we (ok only mamí is) so obsessed with him crawling?

Road trip!

ok. so it wasn't that big of a road trip. This weekend we drove to Houston to visit with Roman's cousins Drew, Alex, and Isabella. Roman's grandparents were also in town to meet up with Aunt Patty from New Orleans. We all got together to celebrate Drew's 8th birthday! Roman got to play with his cousins and since we didn't see them at Christmas the kids got to open our presents.

Roman wasn't feeling so hot on the way to Houston. And we couldn't figure out why, he seemed to want to nurse constantly. Well, Roman's grandmother suggested we get him some teething tablets/gel for him. We did and he was so much better. total personality change! He already has four teeth so we should of known!

Crawling is so not necessary!

Roman discovered how to pull himself up on his crib with the help from the bumper on his crib a few months ago. But it isn't until now that he has tried to pull himself up to cruise around the house. We don't think he will ever crawl. He just seems to want to go straight to walking...

Super Bowl time!

Roman's grandfather visited for 16 hours during Super Bowl Sunday. Mamí's cousin who just moved to Austin from Washington, invited Pop to ride back with him from a visit to the valley. They arrived in time to watch the game, and Pop returned to the valley the next morning.

Roman was very excited to hang out with Pop. They had a good time exploring the house the boys watched the big game. You can see that Roman is not wearing Chicago Bear gear, but Daddy's favorite basketball team. Mamí was sad that the Bears lost. bummer!

Check-up Time!

Roman's 9 month check-up was today. We thought he was due for some vaccinations, but what was due was another flu shot. He did get some bloodwork done. A lab technician had to prick his finger to get the necessary blood. He was a champ about it. No crying or fussing. They bandaged his finger and Roman tried to eat off the bandage. We were worried the doctor would ask about crawling. Roman just refuses to crawl. He can pull himself across the floor on his belly!

9 month stats!
Head circumference 95 Percentile
Weight: 23 lbs 95 percentile
Height: 27.5 75 percentile


Since he is now officially over the weight limit of his infant car seat (as seen in pic), we had to move on to the convertible car seat. We got Britax Marathon for mamí's car (full price at babyrus, ugh! forgot a coupon at home) and got a good deal on the same type w/ a discontinued color on the internet for daddy's car. That way we don't have to worry about switching out the car seat from one car to the other.

9 months old!

Roman turned 9 months old today! Wow.. we can't believe he is almost a year old. This evening we met up some parents and babies at our first Bradley reunion. It was held at the Children's Museum downtown. Many thanks to Jason and Rachel for arranging the location and great pizza! We brought along salad to share. Of course, we forgot utensils. But another mommy thought ahead and came prepared. Here are pictures of him exploring the baby corral they have reserved just for infants. We were worried (ok. only mami was) that he was the only baby not crawling, but when we left he waved bye, bye to everyone. very impressive we were told!