Family, Toys, Fun...ah, the good life

It was my Birthday yesterday and when I got home from work, I saw that Dominic had snuck home and baked me a cake to celebrate. It was actually pretty funny because we took a lot of pictures and had a hard time getting him to look at the camera--he was mesmerized with the confection he'd whipped up, apparently.

Dominic (and Derek) have also been busy playing with some of Dominic's previously un-used toys. Now that he's almost 6 months, we felt it was time to break out the bike trailer and some other "toys" and give em a try. Derek acted pretty cool when we took Dominic out on the Foster City bike trail but for those of you who know how much Derek loves both his son and bikes, it was a pretty momentous occasion.

We also put Dominic in his backpack and took it on it's true maiden voyage to the Half Moon Bay pumpkin festical where we met up with Tutu and Grandpa. Dominic always thinks it's really funny to be be up so high and he always looks sort of pleased with himself or something.

We also took Dominic to Michigan at the beginning of the month to visit with Stef, Pete, and the kids and Arie, Jaime, and Jackson also came up for a visit. It's always hectic and crazy to have so many people together at one time but man, it was a lot of fun. Dominic loved all of his cousins--it really is funny how they are just so in tune to other little kids. Anna had a special knack of making him laugh and giggle out loud.
Here are Arie and Craig playing a game of Go Fish. I can't vouch for how good Craig is at this game but he sure is good at t-ball. None of my pictures of the game came out very good but here is one of him and Derek playing baseball in the back yard.

Pete and Dominic taking in Craig's game.

Dominic and Anna snuggling up

All the cousins sitting with Uncle Pete...