We hosted the final official PEPS meeting/potluck last night and we took a group photo:

And just the babies:

It’s so amazing to see how everyone has grown!

Here’s a link to the group photo from 12/5.

We’re going to keep it going with meetings every other week on Sunday afternoons.

Thanks to Uncle Tim for the onesie… I guess.  🙂  While wearing this Blaine had a giant twozie that leaked from his diaper in two places!

Blaine had his first Tom Douglas experience on Sunday!

He didn’t get to have any of the pizza, but he did enjoy munching on that purple ring, and his thumb.

Thanks to Andrew’s colleague Chrys for this cute outfit!

And here’s Blaine in his “future strong hire” onesie from DESCO, also showing off his awesome bald spot:

Yesterday we took Blaine on his first trip to the zoo!  The sun came out and it was a beautiful day.  Here’s a picture of Blaine and Mommy with a jaguar in the background:

Blaine seemed particularly interested in this giraffe who came over to say hello:

Blaine and I had a good day yesterday!  We had a good night of sleep (10 hr stretch without waking) and met a neighbor and her 3 month old for coffee mid-day. Last night he went to sleep on his own (I put him down awake) with no crying, and he slept for 10 hrs again! Progress!  Though we are missing Daddy while he’s in NY.

At Mom-Mom’s request here are a few more videos of Blaine!

1. Blaine showing off his skill of grabbing the froggy ring on his bouncy seat — he’s been doing it for 2 or 3 days and now looks fairly bored with it. He pulled it about 8 or 9 times in a row earlier today and that music sure gets annoying.

2. Blaine’s giggles – apologies for the poor camerawork but it’s tough both tickling and shooting.

Link to the album is here

Today Blaine and I visited daycare for the first time.  We went over after his morning nap and filled out paperwork, played a little, had a bottle, took a short nap, and ate and played some more.  We were only there about 4 hours.  I was able to snag a crib in the back right next to the noise machine for Blaine, but I still think sleep is going to be the biggest challenge.  He was clearly tired but had a tough time falling asleep.  When he finally did go down I went for coffee and when I got back found out Blaine had only slept for 25 minutes!  Oh well.  We’ll have to work on that.  Here’s the daily newsletter we’ll receive:

WHT 2-11-13 infant 1

Blaine is in infant room 1 (there are 3 rooms) and his room only has 6 infants right now (it will be 8 pretty soon).  There’s Blaine, Sydney (1 month older, her father works for Amazon on the same floor of the same building as I do!), Caroline (1 month older). Dylan (same as Blaine, ~4 mos), Vesper (don’t know age), and Matthew (the oldest… I think he’s nearing 1 year so will probably be moving on soon).  His teacher is Miss Debbie but they are hiring another primary teacher to work with her, right now the others are all assistants.

Blaine seemed a bit overwhelmed by it all (as was I!) but I’m hoping to ease the transition for us both by spending a few hours there with him for a few days this week.  Then next week I’ll plan to get some appointments scheduled and leave him for longer times.  I go back to work on Monday 2/25… 🙁