Meet me in St. Louis

Sebastian has been spending a lot of time relaxing, lounging in Chesterfield, MO with his family.  He has been entertaining everyone with his talking, kicking, and smiling.  Sebastian has been smiling at all of his visitors... he likes to make everyone feel special.  Sebastian has enjoyed catching up with his Papa and Bube.  He has also had a wonderful time meeting his Uncle Mark, Great-aunt Sandy, and many, many friends in Missouri.  Hopefully, Sababy will have the opportunity to meet his Great-grandmother, Irene, soon (she has been feeling under the weather and hasn't been in the mood to socialize).  Sebastian also looks forward to meeting his Uncle Ryan tomorrow!

Sebastian continues to grow every day!  According to the digital scale, Sebs is now 14.8 lbs at 16 weeks.  We are waiting for him to start crawling at any moment because he is SO active.  See pictures of Mr. Adorable below.
 

Wearing his Crown Royal hat

With Bube Claudia

Chilling with Uncle Mark

Sebastian with Great-Aunt Sandy

Papa, Bube, and Sebastian

Three generations of Dooleys

Papa, Matt, Anna, Bube, and Sebastian

The Drvota girls with Sebastian

On his activity mat

Sebastian loves to stick out his tongue

Biting Landon's hand

Sebs with Landon

Funny face little man

Standing like a big boy

Picture update

We are in St. Louis for Christmas!  We just landed yesterday.  Sebastian was excellent on the plane... He is quite the little traveller.  He sleeps for the majority of the flight, eats, smiles at the people in the aisle and then sleeps again.  Boy are we lucky.  Before we left Boston, we attended the Robertson's annual holiday party.  Sebastian met his new friend Meredith.  Since he is such a casa nova, he reached out to hold her hand.  She cried.  Below I am including a few random pictures we took while in Boston.  I hope to be updating with tons of pictures from St. Louis soon.

Sebastian still loves bath time...

Celebrating Festivus

Matt and Sebastian with Ali and Meredith

Trying to grab Meredith's hand

Moments before the crying

A special visit from great-grandparents and Great-Uncle Laurence

Back in Boston (momentarily)

I can already tell that this post is going to be written in several different sessions.  Sebastian is down for a nap but as I am starting to type, I can already hear him waking up.  And, I know that I left my camera in the room so the pictures are going to be delayed... shoot.  It is certainly more difficult to do things at home than it was in Oregon where I always had an extra pair of hands.

The transition back to Boston went more smoothly than I had anticipated.  Sebastian was wonderful on the plane... he slept the first few hours, woke up and smiled at all of the flight attendants, and then went back to sleep.  His sleep wake cycle was completely thrown for a loop though.  We were starting to make progress before we left Oregon.  Sebastian had a rough bedtime and he was doing well.  Since we have been back, bedtime has been all over the place.  Last night was the worst night yet!  I put him down four times in one hour and he kept startling, waking up screaming.  (Pause, to be continued...)  Okay, he's still asleep.  He is just making funny whimpering sounds. 

Our little guy has made a few exciting progressions.  He now is sitting in his Bumbo and loves it!  He also is starting to reach for objects and put them in his mouth.  His coordination is the best but he's getting there.  We have transitioned him into sleeping in his Pack n' Play (as opposed to in the newborn napper, in a bassinet, or in a co-sleeper).  Matt is now referring to the Pack n' Play as Sebastian's "big boy bed."  I wouldn't go that far but he certainly is starting to look bigger.

We have tried to make good use of our time in Boston.  We are trying to see as many friends as possible and we are frantically winterizing our apartment (we still had the air conditioning units in!!).  Matt has been in and out of town repeatedly on interviews.  He was in Colorado last week and today he's in St. Louis. He has interviews on Thursday and Friday in Rhode Island and in Boston.  A very busy week all culminating in our leaving for St. Louis for Christmas on Saturday!!  Whirlwind....

I am adding the few pictures I have on my computer below.  I will try to get the rest up soon when Sebastian wakes up and I have a free hand.

Terrified face

Sassy face

"I can't see" face

Mr. Beautiful

First Hanukkah for baby

Sebastian celebrated the first few nights of Hanukkah in Oregon with The Poobah and Nana.  So far, he loves the candles and he is fascinated by dreidels.  He doesn't seem to care about the presents yet.  The first night Sebastian received a hat and the second night he received a Hanukkah bib.  He didn't really like the hat and he agreed to spit up on the bib.

Tomorrow begins our journey back to Massachusetts.  We are driving up to Portland tomorrow as our flight leaves on Sunday morning at 7am.  I am a little concerned about traveling with S this time around as he has gotten used to spending a lot of time moving and playing during the days.  When we flew out to Oregon, Sebastian was sleeping for about 20 hours each day so he had no problem sleeping on the plane.  I am concerned now that he might not want to be sitting for as long as he is going to have to sit on the plane.  This certainly will be a different flying experience.

Since we will be in transit over the next few days, this is going to be the last blog from Oregon.  Hopefully, more blogs will be coming from Oregon next year (ie, if Matt ends up at OHSU for residency!!).  We are heading back to a busy and exciting few months.  Matt has several interviews over the next few weeks, we are heading to St. Louis for Christmas, and then we will have to start thinking about ranking residency programs.  Hopefully, Sebastian will remain blissfully unaware of the chaos.

Happy Hanukkah!