Visitors from the South

Alex likes to help his Dad on the computer

Our adventure in Seattle is now more than half over, and in fact we have less than two full weeks left here. It has been absolutely amazing how much Alex has changed just during this short summer. He's now babbling, manipulating things with both hands, turning over (still infrequently), exploring his environment, putting things in and taking them out of his mouth, responding to his name, and so much more. He has clearly identified some favorite toys, among them his monkey man, Sinclair the dinosaur, and Mr. Bear. He is very comfortable around the people he knows well, although a little apprehensive of new faces.

Speaking of new faces, he has had lots of visitors in his home away from home. His aunties (Great Aunties, to be precise) came up for a visit near the end of June. We had a ball touring Seattle and just relaxing.Auntie Regina holds her very cuddly grand-nephew for the first time (perhaps the first baby she's ever held?)

Aunt Ediy is no stranger to the charms of a wee lad (She was a particular favorite of Alex's)

Auntie Kim likes 'em young

The whole gang together, Ediy, Regina, Dan, Dana, Alex, Carla and Kim

Later that week, our good friend Erick, who Dan has known since grade school, stopped by from Puyallup, where he's an up and coming optometrist. We had dinner at our favorite Indian restaurant nearby, Masala. Yum. Erick also brought us the largest teddy bear we've seen, easily twice as big as Alex!