Sunset on the Oregon coast

We are back from Oregon now and settling back into home life. Last week, we headed over to the coast with Alicia, Tucker, Sally, and the boys while we left Mike at home recovering from his unplanned but much needed wisdom tooth extraction. It was a perfect moment in time with friends and a happy little boy.

York Beach in Maine

These were taken at York beach in Maine last week on our little day trip with Alice. Growing up, we used to head up to York beach on Labor day weekend so it felt like a tradition continuing. And just as always, the water was freezing but it was a cooler day than usual so we didn't pull out the swim gear and just let our lil man crawl around in the sand. He seemed to have a good time.

Alice has left us for the southwest sun and we miss her heaps but I hear she already had a little Mexico adventure! Can't wait to hear.

10 month.

I am going to take this opportunity while he's napping to write a few things before they get lost in my brain. I mentioned his first tooth well now he has 2 teeth. He is drool monster these days. He's probably nearly 20 pounds and he seems to have extra chub everywhere he can. He's started to pull himself up on things and actually discovered the stairs the other day and I watched him try and pull himself up unsuccessfully but It's so interesting to watch him discover stuff.

He has been making the funniest faces recently and sucking in his bottom lip like he is in the 10 month picture. He is clapping his hands and will wave and said what seemed to be "bye" when someone waved and said "bye" to him. He is still sleeping well at night and taking a couple naps during the day. He is getting busier by the day and has his favorite spots around the house where he always goes to pull everything out or down. He leaves a little trail of destruction. He likes playing in the bath for much longer now. I remember mom saying she read lots of books during sitting next to the bath and I have started to enjoy reading while he splashes around.

He lights right up when someone even looks at him and gets down right giddy when anyone talks or plays with him. He likes playing with his cousin who is a year older than him and I can already tell they are going to be buds. He is very busy and doesn't often cuddle because he is always on the move by yesterday he fell asleep on me during church and it was perfect.

Here's a little video of our boy in the bath. Isn't great that his bath time is so well documented?

weekend in nyc

eyeballs and I got a ride down to NYC this past weekend for the baby shower of one of my high school friends. He travels so well in the car or wherever. We walked all over the show and he was content perched up in his back pack (soooo many people asked me where we got the macpac pack) which I am very glad we got while we were in New Zealand.

First stop, a new york slice of pizza and that night we went to a cool wine bar with lovely rustic food. There were so many kids in Brooklyn and it was the very early hour of 7PM. I had a pancetta and tomato panini with lemon aioli. The city was in full summer mode (it was in the high 80s) and it was perfect. I was also able to connect with one of my college friends I met in London and we meandered around the streets of Brooklyn and stopped at a French bakery for a croissant and juice. I found myself drooling over the beautiful fruits at the groceries and how much cheaper things were.

We stayed the night our friends' tiny square foot apartment and we shared a bigger than average couch for bed. He isn't into sharing space anymore. I slept on the opposite end to him and I wake up to him pulling on my nose, having climbed up from his end to mine. He was wired and didn't get settled in until 10PM so we were a little sleepy the next day to say the least.

There are also happened to be a 5 boro bridge bike race Sunday morning so everything was on a hold as thousands of bikes raced ALL over the city. It made the travel to the baby shower in Long Island a bit more complicated but we made it. Brie's friends put on a great spread of food at the shower including the most amazing goat cheese, fig, and rosemary bruschetta. Can you tell I was into the eating part of the weekend? Our boy hasn't quite experienced that heat so he was a little sweat ball during the shower but still managed to win everyone's attention.

More pictures on the sublime eye site.

Mike and I most definitely need to go down there more often.

Birthday girl.

Yesterday we celebrated our niece's 8th birthday. She had a yummy and very cool rainbow cake made by her super talented cake making mom. We had a spread of yummy salads and rolls. She was also baptized at church and the cousin-brudders (as they call themselves) sang a song for her. She told them she would sing at theirs. She is such a cool little person and the best oldest cousin. I can't wait until she can start babysitting. I had to post some pix of me and eyeballs because we are coordinating again. Some people may not believe this, but I actually don't try to do this.