Jack is 8 months!

On his 8th month birthday, Jack had a big first! His first airplane ride...and in 1st class!!! He did awesome! Fed on the ascent, fell asleep for an hour, woke up and played on my lap for 40 minutes and then fed again on the descent!! Then taxiing to the San Francisco gate, he let out a few gleeful exclamations!!! And of course the flight attendants loved him. So Happy to hold him while I went to the bathroom!

Today Jack got to have more fun in the sand. We went to Half Moon Bay to play in the sand. Such a happy boy. San Francisco agrees with him! He's slept the longest length of time during the night to date! And..he's had his earliest bedtime too! Sleeping by 8!!

At 8 months, Jack has mastered official crawling. Since 7 months, he's been easily getting around with army crawling...but, a few days ago he did full, chest off the ground, crawling quickly across the room!!

And he is as social as ever. Always up for an adventure, sleeps between activities! Loving eating! Constantly is rolling his arms, like in the 'patty cake' song! And still likes to cuddle with me as I sing to him and massage him before bed. Couldn't ask for a sweeter 8 month old boy! Love, love, love!!!

Our 6th Year Anniversary and the Seattle Aquarium

Sunday, July 14th, Brandon and I celebrated our 6th year anniversary! Brandon decided to plan the day...and I decided I was excited to be 'surprised'. We rented the same horse drawn carriage that Brandon and I took to the hotel after our wedding receiption, 6 years ago! It was fun to reminense and realize how fast 6 years has flown by...after all the trips and play time, the best part of our love and marriage is of course Jack. In fact, we cut our night short because we missed the little guy too much :)

We had dinner at El Gaucho and changed the rest of our plans...when we decided bowling at our old college stomping grounds, sounded so fun. So on a Sunday afternoon, we rented a lane (basically had the place to ourselves) and bowled our hearts out. Brandon won 3 games to 1, but I wasn't too far behind in each game.

This Tuesday, Brandon's parents invited us to go to the Seattle Aquarium. Jack's first trip. He enjoyed seeing the big fish, seals and artificial waves in the wave pool. The little guy fell asleep at the very end, but not before spending a couple hours at the aquarium. Below are a few pictures of the fun day.

 

Happy 4th of July, America!



For Jack's first 4th of July, we rented a suite at the Marriott over Lake Union! We had a balcony on the top floor overlooking the fireworks! We wandered down to the street fair below, ate some food and introduced Jack to more Seattle life! Jack must have known we were celebrating America's birthday because he didn't want to sleep! He was very awake and happy to watch the Seattle fireworks! Happy 4th!