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Washington, My Washington: Part One

We begin at the beginning.

We flew to Seattle via Dallas. Why, you ask? Well, you might as well ask why does the sun shine? Why do the birds sing? Why does Hawaii have interstate highways? Some things simply are.

But the trip out wasn't all that bad. Adam was good on both legs of the flight, and he had a nice time rolling around at the Dallas airport and gnawing on a carrot stick:

We were there for 12 days (in Washington, not the Dallas airport), so I won't bore you with too many details. I will, however, note that we arrived during a record heat wave in the Northwest. This allowed for some nice photos of Adam that will come in handy the first time (Oh, who am I kidding? Every time) he brings home a date. And in the first week, we got to see Scott and Katy and the girls, go to the SW Washington fair, visit with Aaron and Amanda and Charlie and Logan on the occasion of their first first birthday party, and celebrate several birthdays at once in Woodinville (and test out a baby pack that Jean's cousin Sarah is debuting soon):

Let's Start Here

Long time, no see

I know I'm way behind, so I'll get all y'all caught up with a series of posts over the next few days. We took a trip to Washington in mid-August, so this one will cover the pre-trip developments, and the trip and post-trip stuff will come soon.

So, Adam was getting a little more active - rolling around, pivoting on his ginormous belly, thinking that crawling would be great, if only he had the first clue how to do it. But at least he gets to grab stuff if he rolls a little too close:

Poor dog:

After his six month doctor's appointment, we got the thumbs-up to start him on solid foods. He likes this development:

He also started to sit up on his own before we left for Washington (to clarify, he remained sitting after we sat him up, not that he sat up on his own - though he's getting close to doing that these days). One day, he simply decided it would be nice to see the world from a different perspective, and he's preferred it ever since. As so many before us have done, we sit him in the boppy pillow for a little support and padding.

As you can see from the video, he likes that sitting up allows him to explore the world a little more thoroughly. He was pulling on that gym support for several minutes before I started recording, and he kept going after I stopped. He just thought tugging on that thing was the most interesting thing in his short life, I guess: