sippy cup

a certain big boy is pretty much becoming an expert with his brand new sippy cup for six month olds... no big deal. he just loves to have a little refreshing water. also, to spill about half of it on his shirt.

a thelen bbq

we went over to the sigls' house to have a bbq on sunday afternoon. the thelens are staying at the sigls while visiting and the sigls are actually on vacation! we missed them at the party. we had a fun time visiting with everybody and ate some yummy food. i barely took any pictures... terrible, i know... and the ones i did take were all kids. adults were at the party too, i swear.

rice cereal!

i'm not ready to give up on photographing and posting every new food yet. here is rice cereal, a kind of boring choice, but our doctor recommended starting it because it is iron fortified. b was pretty good with it. yum!

gianna is three!

on saturday we were lucky enough to be invited to the gianna mouse clubhouse. the party was at the samena swim and rec club and the sun came out to shine just in time for the party. the weather was actually perfect. geri did a great job decorating for the party with a mickey and minnie theme. there were cute mickey and minnie headbands to wear, mickey wands and rice krispie treats, and red and white polka dots everywhere! thanks to the face painter... there were a lot of crazy animals running around too. the birthday girl was actually decked out as hello kitty! thanks for inviting us to celebrate sweet gianna michael!

could we be more excited to have the thelens here? no!

 

the cutie cute haight family

matt and coen had a lot of catching up to do

present opening chaos... the usual!

beckett thinks abby is the funniest person ever

  

happy birthday gi-ju! you're such a quirky, outgoing, funny, cute little person!

reunited and it feels so good

the thelens are visiting for the week and beckett and i are so excited to have our besties here! yay!

take me out to the ball game

on friday we went to the baseball game that the honey badger's won tickets to. it was the mariners vs the rangers and sadly, we lost. luckily beckett didn't even mind, he is a very good sport. beckett got a special certificate for attending his first baseball game and overall the evening was a success. here are a lot of pictures from the night... mostly of beckett because i have a problem. 

harry potter

saige's birthday just so happened to coincide with the release of the last harry potter movie. let me just say right now... the movie was great! if you haven't read the harry potter series and seen the movies, that is just craziness. i am already anticipating the day when i can share them with beckett. matt and i have seen every movie together at the midnight show, and the sixth movie actually released on saige's 18th birthday. the last movie release was reason enough to have a party, but we like saige too... so double party. we had a harry potter fiesta for saige at the house before we headed to the movie. really we did a harry potter theme, but had taco cart tacos for dinner because they are oh so delicious. the dunnes, bakers, and john came to celebrate saige (and harry) with us and it was a pretty fun time. 

i made delicious pumpkin pasties and butterbeer. both recipes were pretty successful. also, i need to do a shout out to natasha who came over before the party and helped me make saige's birthday banner and inhaled probably a lot of dangerous paper fumes. the banner looked goooooood though. 

 
after dinner, we left beckett at the house with his first official babysitters, misty and brian. i seriously felt a little anxious leaving him. i totally trusted misty and she did a great job, but it is hard to leave your baby! geez... what an emotional crybaby mom i am becoming! here is a pic misty sent me from her phone. thanks for taking good care of my b, bakers!

at the theater they made us wait in the garage and it was HOT. blah.

 
but we got good seats inside and the mears decided to join us for the midnight show too. yay! we saw the movie in 3d and the glasses were harry potter shaped frames. so very clever, huh?

here is saige with her hero, neville, after the movie. late night, but totally worth it of course. we will miss our midnight harry potter outings.