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:

Thanks to Kate Mahoney for the adorable onesie!

I managed to get a picture!

The other big news around here is that Blaine’s first tooth came in last week!  I’m pretty sure it cut through on Thursday night, 3/14.  It was his bottom tooth, just right of center.  The left bottom front tooth poked through early this week.  I’ll try to get a picture at some point if he lets me, but for now here are some pics of a family dinner on 3/21:

This was attempt #2 with solid food and Blaine seemed to be getting into it… he kept grabbing the spoon to feed himself.  Or maybe he just wanted to chew on the spoon…

Nellie was in town for St Patrick’s Day so she and DH stopped by on Saturday to say hi!

Blaine and Daddy wore green for St Patrick’s Day!

Robin and Reeves came to visit last weekend and we all had a great time!

On Friday night Andrew cooked a delicious dinner:

On Saturday we went to Ivar’s on Lake Union for brunch.  Blaine enjoyed watching the boats:

Robin and Reeves brought some goodies for Blaine including two wood toys made by Andrew’s grandfather for Andrew when he was a baby:

And this beautiful coat Robin made for Blaine:

Blaine enjoyed spending time with Gram and Grand-dad!

Bonus!  Here’s a random pic from 3/11 of Blaine in an outfit from Gram:

Blaine’s favorite joke is to grab Mommy’s glasses!  He cracks himself up.  🙂

We tried out the regular stroller for the first time today!  Blaine seemed to enjoy it — we think because he’s facing forward and has a better view than in the carseat + snap-n-go.