First Game and First Snow!

Solomon has had a week of firsts! A few days ago he went to his first basketball game with his mom and dad: the Banja Luka "Borac" (fighters) vs. the Zenica "Celik" (steel). Solomon wasn't exactly thrilled with the game, as you can see from the picture at the right. :)

Solomon also saw his first snow ever this week! Snow fell for six hours straight on Monday and accumulated almost 3 inches. Although the temperature warmed up yesterday and today to make most of the snow disappear, there is still snow in the mountains. At the moment it is 45 degrees and partly cloudy. On rainy days it's difficult to impossible to take Solomon out on a walk, but as soon as Sol's winter coat arrives (Friday when my mom and dad come...YEAH!) we'll be ready for the cold.

Oh, and I almost forgot....two weekends ago when we went to Zagreb, I forgot to mention that Solomon also went to his first MOVIE! In his love for the movies, Scoggins was trying to figure out a way that we could take Solomon in with us without disturbing other movie-goers. Turns out, 11 am on a Sat. is a great time to see movies that have been out for a while with your young son! We bought two tickets to the show that had the least amount of tickets sold for that showing, "Evan Almighty" and strolled our stroller right into the theatre. Solomon fed during the previews, then sat on my lap for the first 20 min. of the movie. He was quite enthralled with the lights on the big screen, I think. Then, he fell asleep in my arms and I sat him in his carrier. The only glitch was about 3/4's of the way through the movie he woke up to have one of the biggest diaper blow-outs in history. He also happened to be in Scoggins lap at this point. So, Scoggins took him out to clean them both up in the men's bathroom. Ha! When I asked Scoggins how it went, he explained to me that there was no place to put the changing pad, no table or anything, so he had to put it on the floor! UGH! At that point I didn't want to know anymore details, but be sure that I scrubbed both the changing pad and my son very well when we got back to the hotel room.

Update

So, I never updated you all on our trip to Zagreb last weekend. We packed our little Ford Fiesta up and got Solomon all strapped in for our very first road trip. I set up toys in the back seat to keep Sol occupied and we were off. (Unfortunately we didn't take as many pictures of this trip as we should have, and I promise to get better at taking pictures intentionally.) Instead of staying just one night, which we had planned to do, we decided to stay another night since we were having such a good time and Solomon was doing so great. Solomon enjoyed his very first concert on Friday night and even fell asleep during it! On Sat. we had a leisurely breakfast together and morning in general. Then, since it was rainy, we headed out to a new hyper-mall just outside of the city where we shopped and got Solomon a cool new Euro outfit. Sol did great all day, sleeping in his stroller and in the car and just being generally happy. He did great, too, sleeping in his pack-and-play. It was his first time, but it didn't seem to phase him at all.

So, that was our weekend of firsts.....concert, hotel, road trip.

Then, this past Thursday, I packed up Sol's things once more as I headed to the Croatian Coast for an annual Women's Conference with my friends Cindi and Daca. This time the trip would be longer, about 5 hours in total, but Solomon did great once again. I think he really likes traveling in the car and it helped that I was in the back seat with him, too. We stopped only once so I could feed him and change his diaper. The conference was Thursday through Sunday and once we got the hang of the schedule, etc. Sol really did well. Of course all the women there were all over him all weekend and he just loved it. They all said he is a real charmer! He'd give them smiles and then bury his head in his shoulder like he was shy! So cute...

Solomon got to see the sea for the first time and the weather was beautiful...sunny and 65-70. We enjoyed walks along the boardwalk, especially with the Baby Bjorn which Solomon can now use facing outwards.

I took Sol with me to most of the sessions and just excused myself when I needed to which worked out just fine. The weekend wasn't as restful as it's been for me in past years, :), but it was still nice to get away and to have a change of scenery and schedule for a while. And it's good to know that Solomon can travel well, too.

On our return on Sunday night, Scoggins was anxiously awaiting us. I thought he'd enjoyed catching up on needed sleep while we were away and just relaxing in general, but he said he actually missed the chaos! So, it was a nice reunion.

I've posted a few pictures from our trip...enjoy!

Solomon's Kickfest

Getting Out of Town

So, it's Friday afternoon and the Berg family is getting out of town! We are heading to Zagreb for the night to go to a Hillsong United concert! Crazy that they'll be in Croatia....Anyway, this being Solomon's first official overnight at a hotel, we are realizing quickly just how much STUFF this little guy needs with him! The pack and play, the carseat, the stroller, the infant seat, and the Baby Bjorn, just to name a few. We'll stay overnight at the Allegra hotel downtown and then head back to BL on Sat. night. I'm sure we'll post pics of our little overnight when we return.

By the way, we took Solomon to his 3 month well check on Wed. He is 26 inches long and weighs 14.5 lbs! He's a tall one!

New Videos

We are not totally oblivious to the fact that the videos we've posted are somewhat ordinary. We just thought you might enjoy some "normal" glimpses of s to the third life.

Happy Morning Playtime

Thumbsucking for the First Time

The Workout

Dinner with Friends

So, this weekend was again absolutely beautiful and Scoggins and Solomon and I enjoyed every minute of it. Yesterday we had our friends Sasa and Milica over for lunch. Only we didn't make the lunch...they did! It was a great afternoon and Solomon did well....he is learning to go to sleep in his crib on his own. He doesn't have it down quite yet, but he's getting better.

Sasa is a pretty good photographer and so he took some impromptu shots of the three of us on the terrace on the top of our building.