Some of my favorite moments

Taking out all the teething gear

Saucer fun

Lounging in your cutest outfit

Accessory shopping with mama

Today we discovered your ear pit, just like Uncle William!

Today you started to grab your toys and shake them!

You are getting more comfortable with tummy time!

Working out your neck muscles

This week we found a tooth sprouting!

Storytime at the Newton Public Library:

Walk around Crystal Lake with Margot:

My attempt at teaching you Chinese

Practicing your sitting-up skills:

You and I spend lots of quiet moments together that I will remember for the rest of my life.

Visiting the lake in between thunderstorms:

Getting a little too heavy for the bouncer!

Grandma loves you so much.

You officially graduated from a swaddle today!

We met up with Sonia and Josiah at the Pru today.

Our daily Skype chat with Grandma and Grandpa.

Eating in your booster seat for the first time. We are getting ready to eat solids everyday!

Our daily walk around the lake.

You moved to a four-hour schedule and took a 2 hour+ nap for the second day in a row!

You and daddy spent the most time alone ever, six hours while mommy went on a sailing trip!

We went out to brunch for the first time as a family! With a groupon that Daddy bought, of course.

We walked all the way from Kenmore to Copley and back to Coolidge Corner with our dear friends Logan, Shannon, and Ethan.

You rode on a swing for the first time!

You are getting really good at sucking your left thumb.

Today we visited the Burlington Mall. You and I are going to become very familiar with this place when it starts to snow!

Today we took you to Boston Medical Center to meet all of daddy's old colleagues. I hope you didn't catch any weird diseases.

Today you discovered how beautiful the trees and water are. Our walks around Crystal Lake this season are numbered, but I'll take you out as much as I can.

You put your paci back in your mouth all by yourself today!

I took you to the library for the first time today, for storytime and then a nap. I hope you learn to love the library!

We celebrated the ten year anniversary of 9/11. I'm thankful that you didn't live to see the horror of that day, and pray that you will come to understand but never experience that kind of evil.

I put you down for a nap with one arm out of your swaddle! Let's see how this goes...

Today was my last day at work. From here on out, it's you and me, kid.