Continuing to catch up

May 11, 2010

It’s fruitless, I know, yet here I am. 😀

Let’s see… I was up to March, I believe. Here are a couple of pics I left off from Feb.

On baby’s first Valentine’s Day, we went to our favorite Korean restaurant:

I love my two guys.

Rocking the baby to sleep for his nap, I realized that he looked both completely different yet totally alike his newborn self and took this pic (he’s 4 months, 1 week old here):

Reconstructing the events from my tweets and my flickr uploads, it looks like March is when the house exterior finished being painted.

Seppo, the baby, and I went back to Commis. Well, the baby “went back” in the sense that he had gone before when he was in the belly. He proved to be ok and the staff was immensely understanding of our need to keep running out of the restaurant to keep him happy and quiet. We went back the day after Seppo’s birthday while A babysat for us. Thank you so much!

The baby continued to wear ridiculous (and ridiculously cute) outfits and grow used to being on his stomach:

This next photo is notable for his blurry left arm. What that shows is how he flails and flops his arms and smacks himself in the thighs and belly when he’s excited. Seppo and I never fail to find amusement in copying him when this happens. Hee. Love you, baby.

In April, I took him to the aquarium (in SF’s CA Academy of Sciences) for the first time:

Unfortunately, we (two other moms and our respective kids) went on the Friday of apparently Spring Break for every kid in the bay area, and every parent had the same idea of bringing their kid to the aquarium. It was hard to fight through the crowds, so we left quickly and decided we’d come back another time. Baby had a good time looking around at the people, and managed to see some fish still. 🙂

April also brought his first taste of food! 😀 Yay! The food adventure has been fun for the whole family, and I say that entirely without any sarcasm. There is something so joyful and rewarding about cooking food and seeing your kid lunging for it, mouth first. LOL.

That first day, he didn’t really eat much or know what to do with the food in his mouth (I had made some really loose rice porridge), but the thing I really love about that blurry photo is how his hands look, reaching for the spoon. I love how goofy and uncoordinated his hands are (he’s better now, actually, than when the pic was taken), but how hard he tries, how much concentration you can see on his face as he reaches with his fingers bent out.

Here, you can see that he still usually grabs things with his thumb curled in. Right now, it’s about 60-40 thumb-in versus thumb-out.

Same sitting, looking extra tiny:

He loves to take up the maximum space when he sleeps. I’ve actually woken up with him completely sideways, his toes pointing into my neck, and his hands reaching into Seppo’s neck.

At 5.5 months (1 month ago), he was already wearing 9 month old clothing. This shot is just to show how long he is, but without anything to measure up against, it’s hard to see anything except his proportional longness:

Thank you, Grandma & Grandpa, for the cute space outfit!

Thanks to my company, we attended the SF Giant’s opening day at Pacbell park! Here he is with Lindsi:

You can clearly see his two lower teeth, which he got back in February. I think he might be asleep in this pic:

Seppo shaved his head into a very wide mohawk:

Two of his most adorable pictures recently:

Something that I think started in April was this:

Ever since he was tiny, he rubbed his eyes when he was sleepy, but now, his eye-rubbing has hit pro levels of rotating little fists. So adorable.

Nothing tastier than Daddy’s face:

In the middle of April, we took a plane trip for the first time to attend my friend A’s wedding. Here are Seppo (in his lovely suit) and the baby (sans formalwear):