Blaine loves going down the slide at daycare head first!

Here are a few pics from the “Family Feast” day before Thanksgiving:

And here are some other random pics from November:

Happy Birthday, Uncle Tim!  It’s hard to believe you’re turning 30!  We’re sending you all our love from Seattle and wishing we could be there with you to celebrate the big day.  Can’t wait to see you again soon — hopefully on the 14th but if not then certainly at Christmas!

Love,

Blaine, Sally Ann and Andrew

This was Blaine’s first time in the bucket swing at the playground!  He also enjoyed crawling up the slide.

Happy Halloween, blog readers!  Here’s our little Spider Man before daycare.  Later in the day he transformed into Robin (we figured since he was Batman last year…).

We only hit 2 houses trick or treating before bedtime.  🙂  But we distributed treats to 422 trick or treaters!

Blaine seemed happy to be back at daycare after vacation!  It was also a big week because he transitioned into the toddler room from the infant room!  Here’s a pic from Monday of Blaine in his new sneaks:

Such a big boy!  He spent more time each day and on Friday he officially transitioned.  I think he’s going to miss his infant teachers, but will probably enjoy the new toys and all the activity with the toddlers.

Last, but not least, here’s a post with all the food and drink pics from our trip. That’s pretty much all we did — eat, drink, swim, nap.  It was a very relaxing time (apart from Blaine’s strong objection to sunscreen).

Brunch at Duke’s on 10/23:

Early dinner at Iron Imu BBQ on 10/24 (showing off the handmade flower headpiece the host gave me):

This was also the first time Blaine successfully drank from a straw!

Dinner on our last night (10/26) at Mala in Lahaina.  Blaine loved the edamame dip:

And we caught a beautiful sunset before heading back to the condo:

I’m missing pics of our two parents-only nights out at Japengo and the Lahaina Grill, and forgot to take pics of our visit to Ululani Shave Ice (which Blaine loved!). So, I’ll complete this post with a pic of a Mai Tai (mmm):

And here are some the pics from the pool!  Blaine loved floating around in this infant inner tube:

He also really enjoyed swimming down to the deep end with Daddy to check out the waterfall:

After a hard day of tubing Blaine enjoyed some well deserved blueberries:

We spent most of our time at the beach or the pool, so I’m going to split up the pics into separate posts.  Here are all the pics from the beach.

This is actually the very first picture I took on the trip… I couldn’t believe how little time it took for Blaine to taste the sand:

Blaine LOVED this beach ball

He did not love this hat we got him at first, but eventually he warmed up to it and kept it on his head.

He also really enjoyed walking (being carried) up and down the beach with Daddy:

On the 2nd to last day we took him to a beach in Lahaina nicknamed “Baby Beach” because of the calm surf.  Blaine enjoyed crawling around in the water and we built drip castles.

On Sunday, 10/20, we left for our first real family vacation to Ka’anapali Beach on Maui.  Blaine was very well behaved on the flight out — he took two naps, ate, played quietly, and only cried a bit during the landing until we got him to drink some water for his ears.

We stayed in a condo at the Ka’anapali Alii:

Every morning we enjoyed breakfast on the lanai, with a view of Lanai.

Blaine loved all the delicious Hawaiian pineapple and papaya, and this weird pink guava bread we got him.

On Saturday, 10/19, we took Blaine to Nordstrom to buy his first pair of shoes.  He needs to wear shoes in the toddler room at daycare, so it was time to get him fitted even though he’s not yet walking.

The salesman helped us choose a size 4 1/2 Wide from Stride Rite.

Blaine didn’t seem to be that crazy about them, nor was he impressed by the traditional stuffed shoe horn they give to all the first timers.

But he was happy after discovering the play area!