Baby Shower Pictures!

We have these pictures from the showers and thought we would post them to Tini's blog. There's been chatter that this may also qualify us to be invited to a wedding in the future, which would be a good thing.

DC Shower, June 28th:

Guests enjoying the festive Dr. Suess atmosphere

Christina, Suzi, Stokes, and Tini (not pictured, well, kind of)

Kristin and Jim mocking the cupcakes

A blue monkey! A green box! Hooray!

Pittsburgh Shower, July 5th:

*Disclaimer: it may appear that Suzi is wearing the same outfit that she wore to the DC shower. But that would be a ridiculous thought. Why on Earth would she do that? It's probably just global warming or high oil prices that are making you see things.

Tini's not the only one that has his own crocheted
hat, this duck got one too! Thanks, Ama!

Tini and lots of his family!

Another monkey - what a surprise!

Thanks again to everyone who made it to the showers and sent gifts, we really appreciate everything! Especially the monkeys - all 6 of them!

Tinimeter: a honeydew melon!

So, apparently... we have a blog!

Suzi is just past 33 weeks now, which means it's time to find a pediatrician or, at the very least, start looking. So, we had our first interview/visit this afternoon and it went really well. The four doctors there seem extremely capable and we both really like the primary doctor who spent the most time with us. To boot, the exam rooms have different cultural themes and they have key child-related services (that I didn't know existed 2 months ago) like a lactation consultant, baby sign language classes and baby yoga classes.

For those of you clamoring for pictures from the baby showers, we intend on posting some pictures from the past two weekends once we get them from Suzi's dad. Stay tuned... but don't hold your breath.

In the meantime, you'll have to settle for knowing that we met the Mayor of DC at our pediatrician visit today (by met, we mean saw in the waiting room with his two sons but didn't want to creep out by saying, "Hey, you're the Mayor of DC!"). And we know it was him because of these four clues:

1. His face looked just like the Mayor's face.
2. He had DC flag cuff links.
3. He had several Blackberries.
4. One of the doctors called him by his first name.

This was another reason we liked our pediatrician so much - if she's good enough for the Mayor's kids, she's good enough for our son!

Tini-Meter: pineapple!