The Richie Show: A BIG week!

Last week for Richie, was a week full of firsts! The caretakers of Richie entered him into a summer reading contest, which surprised me a little big considering he cannot read. We entered the contest a little late, but, over the course of a month, we read exactly 100 books to him! Which, made him the top reader in his age group! (I think this qualifies us as Helicopter-Parents.) As such, Richie earned tickets to a special event at the the Baltimore Aquarium! During the summer-readers' party, Richie also won tickets to an Oriel's Game! Those took place on Thursdays and Tuesday of last week, respectively. Last Sunday, Richie was a guest to his first birthday party!

Although he has not quite started crawling, like I had thought, he is getting up on his knees much better and is regularly rolling front-to-back.

So, it has been a week full of FIRSTS! Let's take a look....

Okay, so it's not the first time Richie has been caught sleeping on Daddy's side of the bed, but it was too cute with his little toes poking out the bottom of the sheet.

Daddy and Richie are sharing a Binky for the first time! There's a cute movie of this, which I'll try to post tomorrow...the movies take a LONG time to upload.

Here's the birthday cake for Richie's friend Christopher! Kiki, Christopher's mommy, apparently has been making special cakes like this one for decades. Maybe she'll make one for Richie! (She never made me one...:( )

It's like Africa! (You'll see some of these later...)

Here's Christopher! Cake anyone?

This is the First Time Richie sat on daddy's shoulders!

We can see this building from our deck way off in the distance. Here' we were driving to ML's new-mother's-group who were having a BBQ so all of the husbands could meet. We're not allowed at the normal group meetings.

Richie got his very own pool last week! Well, the week before, but we just set it up last week. Do those animals look familiar?

Richie's first baseball game! He seemed to tolerate it quite well. Much better than I did as a child. Then again, my dad and I went to go see the Atlanta Flames several times.

I think this may have been Richie's favorite part of the aquarium! It's funny, all of the library people who were involved with taking the tickets call us "Richie's mom and Richie's dad." We clearly are of such little importance that we no longer need names!