Blaine really wants to crawl — and he’s getting pretty close now!  He’ll get up on his hands and knees and rock:

And then he’ll lunge for something and end up on his tummy:

(This was Blaine’s first taste of a cookie, at Volunteer Park Cafe.  Yum!  He didn’t get to try any of Daddy’s beer, though.)

Blaine made Daddy this adorable hand print card at daycare, and Mommy chipped in with some pecan waffles for breakfast:

Later on Sunday we enjoyed our get together with PEPS held in Volunteer Park.

In honor of Father’s Day, here are some of my favorites of Daddy and son:

On Saturday 6/15 Blaine experienced two more firsts!  He seemed to enjoy his first furniture shopping (we’re still searching for that perfect dining table):

And he was very well behaved for his first sushi dinner at Nishino!  We arrived at 5:30 and sat at the sushi bar.  No sushi for Blaine, but he enjoyed watching the chefs.  And we ran into a colleague of Andrew’s from DESCO.

Blaine still loves Daddy’s shoulder…

It’s hard to believe Blaine is already 8 months old!

I don’t think we can officially call it summer yet here in Seattle, but the weather has been warm enough for Blaine to break out some summer outfits — including this new one with the fire truck from Mom-Mom!

Mommy went away for the first time, for two nights, to San Francisco for Masha’s wedding.

Daddy got Mommy a fantastic room with an unbelievable view, and there were also some great views of Mt Shasta, Crater Lake, and Mt Rainier on the flight home!

We all went to the zoo on Sunday, 5/26.  This time Blaine seemed to really enjoy the meerkats and the elephant.

And Blaine got to spend some more QT with Mom-Mom, Doc, and Molly before they left on Tuesday 5/28.