Fun with Alton

Some gratuitous Alton cuteness....

Alton Rolls Over!

So Alton rolled over alone for the first time on April 22. We were in the midst of moving from our corporate apartment to our new house and on our very last night in the apartment, we gave him a bath, then put him on the bed and I was doing a little baby massage. When I flipped him onto his tummy to rub his back, he rolled onto his back all in one motion--woooop! Since then, whenever we put him on his tummy he would try so hard to roll over, usually stopping himself from completing the act because he would "chicken wing" his arm out and get it in the way. But on May 25 we put him on his tummy and not only did he flip over to his back quickly, he did it about 7 times in a row! Each time we put him back on his tummy, he would roll right over to his back.

We took some video of the little man in action. Now he won't spend any "tummy time" playing at all. Whenever he is on his tum-tum, he rolls over to his back right away. Hopefully once he starts being able to roll over from back to tummy, the crawling and scooting will not be far behind.

Mother's Day

My first Mother's Day was fantastic! Alexa and Brian came down from Seattle for the weekend to explore our new house. We made the world's biggest cheese fondue...Alexa and I both maintain that you can never have too much cheese, but our dairy hangovers in the morning should have clued us in to the fact that yes, you can. Despite the melted mesclun of bleu, jack, gruyere, romano and fontina in our stomachs (just typing that made my tummy hurt a little bit), we powered through and ate a chocolate fondue as well. Weeks later now, my selective amnesia has already kicked in and I wouldn't mind doing it again.

Sunday morning Andy dressed Alton all snazzy-like and made PINK chocolate chip pancakes topped with strawberries for us all. Alton got me flowers, a knitting book I wanted and some yarn. Now if he could just help me find the time to knit....