Oot and Aboot in Seattle

It is important to start your child's science education at an early age.

So this is why we brought Peanut to the Pacific Science Center. They have a traveling exhibit, Lucy, who is the 3.2 million year old fossil that is the earliest hominid found. 3.2 million years to the present will take a long time to cover, so that is why all Biology teachers surveyed * recommend starting evolutionary topics at 4 weeks old for babies. * We only had time to survey 1 Biology teacher, and it was me.

He was so excited about it, he slept the entire time. We tried to entice him with a chocolate vanilla cupcake on the way (that was a pain to jam into a bottle!), but sleep won out. We spent the majority of the time at the PSC feeding him, changing him, and the last 10% of the time involved quickly weaving through the interesting looking exhibit so we could actually view Lucy before a meltdown occurred and before the nasty general public shared germs with the boy.

A couple more pics...

Peanut's first Ixtapa run was an important first!

And we're home!

And we're back online!

Whew- what a couple of weeks it has been! We got to leave early, thanks to our adoption paperwork moving along quickly. But not before we were stuck in a place with no ability to log on to the Internet. :( But we are home now, after a 12 hour day of flying across the country. Peanut did just fine, having his own seat for take off and landing, then snuggling up with us for the duration of the flight.

After arriving home, we have spent a lot of time getting to know all of the new family, and the new surroundings.

Peanut is up from 5 lbs 12 oz to over 6 pounds- and just outgrew a few of his preemie sized onesies. They just grow up so soon!

We are here and we are doing well!

I have had some concerned readers asking why we aren't posting.. and it is simply because things have been super hectic. I will put up pics late tonight or tomorrow. :)

Play time

Yesterday we learned how Peanut's teenage years will be. It is a rule that you put babies to sleep on the back, to prevent SIDS. Well, when you put Peanut on his back, he immediately rolls to his side. We'd put him back on his back, and boom- back on his side. So we bought some supplies yesterday and one of them was a little memory foam pad that has two triangle shaped wedges to keep the lil guy from rolling. Peanut showed his distain for them by scooting back and resting his foot on the wedge, and crossing the other foot on top. So cute!

Today we focused on a bit more play time, after getting a little bouncy chair. He seemed to find the vibrating featuer a bit odd, but didn't complain. Notice how the part that secures the baby into the chair should only go up to a kid's belly button. Peanut is so tiny it almost goes up to his neck. We let him check it out for a bit, then play time was over. He also made a new friend, the very hungry caterpillar- they are fast friends. He has slept pretty soundly today, except for meal breaks.

It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time!

Here are a few more pictures taken in the last day or two. We are still doing well, the Peanut is an eating/sleeping/pooping machine so we are all happy. These are some of my favorite pictures- the escaping foot from the sleeper, or the one with Dad's hand showing how small he is, or the "I hate the paparazzi always taking pics of me while I'm trying to sleep" picture.

Hi I'm new here...

Hello there everyone! This is our blog about a little boy nicknamed Peanut. Here you'll find adorable pictures and stories about all the cute things he does. I can't promise that we'll be timely with the pictures, right now all we want to do is just stare at him or sleep, so we don't have a lot of free hands to upload pictures- but we're working on it!