8 months - Ain't no stopping us now!

David topped off his 8th month by learning how to crawl! 

We spent David's 8-month birthday in Boston celebrating the graduation of DR Uncle Jason from MIT (and planning some future college visits :)). But before we get to that, here's our official 8m photo shoot.

SO much harder to get pics with him on the move! 

Franklin, on the other hand, is happy to sit still... for a treat of course :) 

In addition to crawling - which I must say, he has become quite a pro at.. looks like he's been doing this for months! - David is still experimenting with different foods every week (squash = not so fun to eat, but lots of fun to squoosh!):

 And he likes to play ball with Franklin :)

Franklin is OBSESSED with stealing all of David's ball-toys... look at how he's eyeing it up :)

He is loving bath time, chewing away on his squirty toys, splashing and chatting it up. He also mimics lots of sounds he hears. Like the vacuum... he makes vroom vroom sounds as we run the vacuum around his room! Haha. And he seems to recognize certain songs from his toys too - he dances to the ABC's, and dances and claps to his new elmo doll we got from our neighbors (the very first time we played it, he was clapping away). At 8 months, David is still the happiest, awesomest little guy around. Still no teeth (even though we see definite signs of teething), but I'm ok staring at his toothy grin forever :)

Now, onto our Boston trip! David proved again that he is a great little traveler.  Here he is at takeoff from Philly, and then leaving Boston.. I think he's going to be a window-seat traveler :)

After doing some flirting with passengers before takeoff, David ate and fell asleep for the hour flight, then woke as we were landing (same for our return flight). Once we got to Boston, we had our first cab ride!

And later in the trip, our first T ride!

We got to spend some QT with Nana and Grandpa:

And last but not least, the reason for our trip, to celebrate Uncle Jason!!

Congrats Uncle Jason!!

As an extra treat, David, while hanging out at the back of the auditorium during the hooding ceremony, got to try on a campus police-woman's hat! 

He seemed to like this hat way more than Uncle Jason's tam :) But I still think there's a chance he'll follow in Jason's footsteps and get his PhD someday :) No pressure bud! Hehe. 

We also went to visit the Children's Museum. David loved hanging out in the baby room. Here he is on the waterbed... he wasn't too sure what to make of the floating sensation at first! 

so... I just lay here?

Aha, I get it, I can move around on this too!

Testing his balance some more on this spinning seat..

wohoo! 

LOVING the mirrored wall... Hi-Five!

Who is that cutie in there??

We all joined in for a group shot :) 

Good times and a great place - can't wait to get back for another visit!

Oh Baby(s)!

David's been quite the busy baby these past few weeks! Let's start with Cousin Cole's Christening. Here's a shot of Uncle Sean, Cole & Aunt Lauren at the church.

Then the boys hanging out at Cole's house afterwards. 

First fist-pumps?

For Memorial Day, we went up to CT to meet Sophie, our Hawaiian/ German traveling girlfriend! Here's a shot of their first meeting, with mom, Rayna (and Josh). 

I'm a hugger, get over here Missy!

Love this shot :)

Now that Sophie is in Germany with her folks settling in, we'll have to start making arrangements for an international play date :)

The following weekend, we had over some buds for a summer bbq and backyard swim! Mom-mom, pop-pop, Casey, Nicole, Ryan, Kate, Kohji, Taishi, Katherine, Andy, Ben, and Katherine's Dad all came by for a fun afternoon in the sun.

David with Taishi and Ryan

Content to watch Tai and Ben from outside the pool..

 What-choo lookin at?

Color coordinated, with Tai & Ben 

Katherine, with twins??

David also got in a nice visit with mommy's friend Erika and her 2 little girls, Claire and baby Jane. While Jane napped, David and Claire got to hang out and goof around on the couch :)

And we did some plain old hanging around home too. 
Out for a walk with the fam:

And loving bath time :)

It's been a great early summer, surrounded by family and friends (and babies!). Looking forward to our upcoming adventures!