We're so popular

Isaac and I had a massive social agenda today. First we got an invite to visit my friend Ashly (sister-in-law to my friend Paulene who had a baby 1.5 weeks ago), who had not yet beheld Isaac, the cutest baby in the world. Ashly has two kiddos of her own, and so when it was time for me to have my baby, she totally rocked my Seattle shower, giving me a sling and two books: The Girlfriend's Guide to the First Year (which served the most fabulous purpose of reassuring me, when Isaac was one month old, that everything was indeed completely normal), and Operating Instructions: a journal on raising a son. Anyway, she's the coolest. So we visited her today, and Isaac got to meet her and her family, and to play on her baby blanket for a good long while. Ashly also has a cat who has been thoroughly baby-trained, and actually seemed to enjoy a good fur-tug by Isaac (see above).

Then we got invited over to Mindy and Clayton's place so they could shower us with big-baby clothes! You see, the families of Mindy and her hubby Zach have been exceptionally blessed with winter babies this past year, so they have warm clothes for bigger babies like Isaac that they have loaned us. This is especially important since it has been chilly here this week, and all we have are short-sleeved T-shirts and onesies for poor little guy! But now his chiffarobe is stocked to the hilt with all kinds of name-brand threads. So our hats off to Mindy and Clayton!