Summer fun

It's crazy hot here (again), but I had a play date on the calendar so we had to venture out. Thankfully, I planned it at a park that had a cool water play thingy (I don't know the actual term).

Leo and Addison staying cool in the shade. Moms and kids settle in for some lunch.
Leo and I try out the water fountains.
He didn't love it, but he didn't hate it. He found it very funny when I pretended to lap up the water.
"Ma, it's 100 degrees out; I don't think I'm going to get a chill so you can lose the towel."

Happy baby photos!

Pouty lips.

So proud

See those blocks? The one stacked on top of the other? My son did that. With his pudgy little hands and his lips pursed in concentration, he placed one block on top of another. Before today, he would chew the blocks, throw the blocks, bang the blocks together, but today he stacked. I could have grabbed the camera or the video camera to capture it, but instead I decided just to enjoy it. I handed my son blocks and he skillfully placed them (he even successfully made some triple stacks). It brought tears to my eyes because I was so proud. Leo may not have met the traditional milestones yet, but he's doing some really cool stuff and I'm so privileged to witness it.

My son, the comedian

Hanging out with Addison

It is pretty much impossible to get both kids to look at the camera at the same time.

Here they are in their boats in the pool.
Playing with the learning table.

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First birthdays

I'm obsessing a little over Leo's first birthday. Every evening while Tom watches the Olympics, I surf the net looking at cake recipes, decorations, favors, etc. I've got big plans and we'll just have to see if I'm able to pull it all off. Trying to recreate a Martha Stewart cake opens you up to a world of disappointment. So when Tom's coworker invited us to his daughter's first birthday, I jumped at the chance to scope it out. It was much more of an "adult" party since it was held at a restaurant. Plus, they dressed the birthday girl up in a very ornate, traditional Indian dress complete with jewelry and nail polish. (Nail polish on her fingers and toes! I kid you not.) She looked very grown up even though she was smaller than Leo.

Here's Leo posing with the birthday girl. Cutting the cake.
Reunited with Sujatha.
Better than last time.

Play date at the Museum

We meet up with some moms and kids today at the Children's Discovery Museum for a "Taste of the Circus". There were some clowns and jugglers and men in unsettling tight leotards. Leo wasn't very interested in the show, but had fun in the infant room at the museum and hanging with his friends outside afterwards.

Here are the kids getting settled for a little lunch outside of the museum. Addison and Leo
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Sophia, her mama Jenn and Doug