Blaine’s mastered his sad face for occasions when he doesn’t get what he wants… mostly when we don’t allow him to play with our smartphones, or laptops, or remote controls, or other electronics.  Here are some examples:

In fairness, I think he was also teething at this point!  He now has 6 teeth!  4 on top and 2 on bottom.  Poor baby!  These pictures make me wonder why I was taking pictures rather than cuddling that sad little face…

We’ve been attending a lot of birthday parties in the last few weeks.  On the weekend of 9/21 we attended three parties!

First, Hannah celebrated her 2nd birthday (and had a delicious cake involving Blaine’s favorite… blueberries):

Later the same day we went to April’s 1st birthday party (where Blaine wowed us by stacking some wood blocks):

The next day we went to Lucia’s 1st birthday party.  Blaine was in a romantic mood and tried to give the birthday girl a big kiss!  What a sweetie.

Here’s a pic of how Blaine likes to sleep these days (9/17):

It’s been a struggle in the last month or so with napping and night sleep, but it finally seems we’re getting back to a schedule with one mid-day nap.  We’re worried it’s a bit too early for him to make the transition from two to one, but he’ll have to do it for daycare anyway, so we’re going with it!

On 9/14 we headed back to the zoo and got to see the one month old baby giraffe!  We learned he’d grown a foot in his first month.

We also got to see some baby jaguars and baby lions that weren’t really babies anymore– they’re getting big!  Just like Blaine.

Blaine figured out how to pull himself up at daycare on Friday (9/13).  He was so excited he showed off his new skill right away when I picked him up.  And he’s been pulling up on everything this weekend!  Here’s a short video (link here).

That’s fast progress from last weekend when he’d only just started pulling up from a chair!

We can’t believe that Blaine’s already 11 months old… 1 year is just around the corner!

We went for a walk in Seward Park and stopped to relax in some shade by the water.

Here’s a photo from 9/7 of Blaine in his monogrammed Director’s chair.  I believe this chair is from Mary and Jere Seelaus (Mom-Mom, correct me if that’s wrong?), and I’m also pretty sure I missed a thank you note on this one.  So sorry!  But here’s evidence of how much Blaine is enjoying his chair!

By the following day (9/8) Blaine was standing up by himself from the chair, and he’s progressed rapidly over the past week (more to come).

By the way, we still don’t know who gave Blaine this “rocktivity” center (which he loves) — please let me know if you know the gift giver.

Blaine enjoyed opening this gift he received in the mail from Gram!  It’s an adorable collared shirt from a company called “Harmont & Blaine”!  Thanks, Gram!