Thanks to Aunt Jody for the cute San Francisco onesie!

Speaking of SF… I’m going to be making a quick trip to SF on June 1-2 for a friend’s wedding!  It’s going to be the first time I’ll be away from Blaine overnight…

Blaine’s made some real progress on sitting up in the last week or so!  He’s also discovered his toes.

We were walking past Volunteer Park on Sunday 4/14 and saw a pack of bicycles go by– it was a criterium race!  

I’d never seen one apart from the movie Breaking Away, but it was perfect for Blaine since the pack went by every few minutes as they circled the closed course.

And in between laps he had his castanets to chew on.

By the way thank you to the person (I’m thinking Robin?) who gave Blaine this hat!  It’s his new favorite and he gets so many compliments on it.

Here’s a video of Blaine playing the tambourine.

Blaine celebrated his first half birthday by ripping his #6 in half!

We’re finally all getting over our daycare colds, and just in time for Blaine’s 6 month shots yesterday.  He took them like a champ and didn’t even get a fever!  He’s been working on his sitting skills, has been trying out some consonants (da-da is a favorite) and we’re going to take Dr Hathaway’s advice and start experimenting with some different solid foods.

On Sunday, 4/7 we took Blaine in a pool for the first time!  One of our PEPS families hosted everyone for a pool party at their apartment building downtown.  Blaine looked a little scared at first but by the end he seemed to tolerate it. 🙂

We celebrated Daddy’s birthday on 4/3.  Blaine was asleep before Mommy finished icing the cake, so he missed Daddy’s excellent candle-blowing-out skills.

Here’s a newer video of Blaine on the jumperoo.

Jumperoo x2

It was a beautiful, sunny Easter weekend here in Seattle!  On Saturday we squeezed Blaine into this too-tight bunny shirt which shows off his baby muscles and took a walk into Volunteer Park to catch the tail end of the annual egg hunt.  We missed the Easter bunny, unfortunately.  Next year!

In the afternoon we had him outside in the backyard on the ground (gasp!) for the first time!  He was skeptical.

The next day we even went for the sunscreen!  Here’s Blaine in a very summery outfit from France (thanks to the Marshalls).  He’s really working on sitting up:

Still a work in progress though: