Group Play Date!

On Sunday Caleb attended his first group play date at Dana's house.  He had a great time playing with Dana and Layla (both of whom he had already met), and also got to hang out with Reah and Max and another little boy.  This was the first time Caleb had ever had a play date with boys there - I told him not to get too used to it. Even though Caleb was the youngest participant in the group and he slept through the first half of the morning, he was quite the social butterfly once he was up and alert.  He even wore his "hunk a burnin' love" shirt to impress al the ladies.

Caleb has really been enjoying sitting up lately, so I thought we would try out Dana's Bumbo Baby Sitter.  He absolutely loved it!

So, of course, as soon as we got home, mommy took Caleb's bumbo out of its box the top of the closet.  The bumbo is a basically a foam rubber molded seat that props the baby up in a sitting position and doesn't allow them to fall over in either direction.  I wouldn't put Caleb in it so young if he didn't have such good head control, but he seems fine and really loves to be sitting "on his own". 

One thing we noticed at our play date was that every picture I took of Caleb involved massive amounts of purple and pink.  I told him he would just have to get used to it, as pretty much all of the babies his age were girls.  He didn't seem to be bothered by it anyway.  In fact, he just loved playing with all of Dana's pink toys!

Of course Caleb enjoyed playing with Layla (in purple) and Dana (in polka dots), but perhaps most exciting was his first ever opportunity to play with another BOY (well, outside of day care where he gets a lot of attention from his friend Brody).  Max, who is 10 months, thought Caleb was fairly interesting, and Caleb seemed to think Max was pretty cool too!  Caleb especially liked that Max was happy to share toys and brought him a nifty pink rattle to play with.

After the play date we headed home to spend the rest of the day with Daddy and to celebrate Daddy's 30th birthday.  We just know 30 is going to be a great year is going to be a great year!