One Year, Five Days, and Going Strong

I can't resist... here's one more shot of our one-year-old on his birthday:

For more, please see Bria's set on Picasa. Thanks again for the photos Bria!

In the meantime, today was Franklin's one year doctor's appointment. Three vaccines, a blood draw, and everything is looking good. Growing bigger and stronger every day. Even jumped a few percentiles in weight:

Not bad!

Here's the full breakdown from Group Health, in case you want to dig into the numbers:

Height: 2' 4.94" (0.735 m)
Weight: 20 lb 11 oz (9.384 kg)
Head Circumference: 18.31" (46.5 cm)

Percentiles:
15.47%ile based on WHO length-for-age data.
39.9%ile based on WHO weight-for-age data.
60.22%ile based on WHO head circumference-for-age data.

So, there you have it. And now we're off for a relaxing weekend in the Quinault Rain Forest! Cheers, reader.

Happy Birthday Franklin!

Had a great time celebrating Franklin with some great friends on Sunday. Can't believe he's one already!


Many thanks to Vios Café: great food _and_ a fun play area for the kids:


Thanks also to Cupcake Royale: I think he approves!


Back at home, he's been making the most of all of his gifts (which may require off-sight storage soon at this rate...). Like this music box from Grandma Christine:


And the pretty awesome Punch & Drop:


Plus I just heard from Emily that today, since he's a one-year-old, he started going out for "recess" at daycare! Hopefully we'll get some photos or video of that soon.

Thanks again to everyone. It's been a great year!

11 Months, 30 Days, 9 Hours...

Just a few short hours from the big day! In the meantime, here are a few recent photos Emily's taken of our young man as he enjoys his last few days at Age 0.

Reading the news yesterday morning with dad:


Stylin' in some new shoes:


On the climbing equipment at daycare:


Speaking of the Intergenerational Learning Center, the current newsletter has a cute photo of Franklin, but also a nice account of the origin and growth of the ILC:

ILC News February 2013 by Yancy Hughes Dominick

And finally, here's the adorable card they helped Franklin make:

All right, reader. Big day's tomorrow. I'd better go make sure everything's ready!

♥ Be Mine ♥

Doing a unit in class on functionalism and the possibility of machine consciousness tomorrow, so I figured putting Franklin in this outfit would give me the perfect image to get things going:

Emily and I have never made much fuss about this holiday, but the timing seemed too good to ignore.

Franklin also the other day received this related gift from Wendy:

Pretty cute!

And thanks to Wendy for coming over last weekend to hang out with Franklin while Emily and I saw Side Effects. The movie was pretty entertaining, and the cast was great, but the real fun may have been back at home:

That's from Facebook. If you want to read all the comments, try the large version.

Well, I'm off to enjoy one of the delicious cookies that Emily decorated at Katrina's the other night:

Thanks Katrina! They're delicious!

Hope you have a happy one, reader!