Great-great grandfather's table

After 2 years of sitting vacant, our dining room is now complete! Mom & Dad shipped us Frank Huss's (my great-great grandfather's) dining room table, chairs, and sidebar this week. I don't have a long enough table cloth yet (the wood is pretty scratched), so this is how it looks right now. I'm sooo happy to have a dining room table...especially since our kitchen table only fits 3.

I also figured I should take a picture of the pool, since it's only really open for 2 months out of the year. If you look to the far right, you'll see the newly installed "scamper ramp" that we put in to help little critters (and Gwynnie) get out of the pool. So far I've seen the successful escape of on turtle and dozens of frogs. The frogs, however, like to lounge on it. I've seen as many as 5 big bullfrogs sunning at a time.

Becca took this picture of Sebastien that was too cute not to post :)

We're heading to York Beach, Maine on Saturday for a week long beach vacation. I'll be sure to post pictures!

Another fun weekend

We had our 3rd wedding in a row this 3rd weekend in July. They've all been friends of Dan's since grade/high school. Here is a picture of us at the wedding.

After the wedding, we invited some friends over to our house. The hot tub and pool got some use. The next morning, Sebastien thought it was funny to play with Gwynie through the screen door. We headed up to Lake Winnipesaukee on Sunday morning for a joint "going away" party for Danny Mayotte who is moving to Seattle and a "meet & greet" with baby Owen Mayotte. Here is a picture of mommy & Sebastien at the party. It was a gorgeous day. Sebastien still is not a fan of the lake water, although he finally decided that he likes grass.
Sebastien was being very social and crawling over to groups of people he'd never met and pulling himself up on them. Since we only have a week of the helmet left (woo-hoo!) we decided it was ok for him not to wear it to the party.

Dan poses

3 generations of Jussaumes, Mayottes, & Masses

Grandparents with grandsons

Boat ride on the lake. Auntie Becca, me & Sebastien

Daddy & Sebastien with a pretty sunset over the lake.

Monday morning playtime.

"Stand in the place where you live"

I named this entry like I did because all Sebastien wants to do these days is stand. You'll see more below.We had a nice weekend. Dan & I had a wedding to go to Friday night. The wedding was held in Danvers, MA at an 1800s mansion and grounds. There were very cool old trees. Below is us at the wedding.

The next day, I took Sebastien to meet up with some friends at a park/beach in Beverly, MA. Below Sebastien tries to take off my friend Terry's hat. Sebastien doesn't like sitting on the grass, so I had to put a sheet down.

His favorite thing to do now is pull himself up on things. Stuff on our coffee table is no longer safe.

Troublemakers! Gwynnie shows Sebastien how it's done.

We ended the weekend by going on a short hike in the nature preserve near our house. We have a great big hiking baby carrier backpack. I wanted to take a picture of Sebastien in it while he rode on Dan's back but I forgot my camera. Sebastien loves riding in it, but this time he fell asleep with his head resting on Dan's head by the end.

9 Month Check-Up

Sebastien had his 9 month checkup today and is growing right along. He is 95th percentile in height (30.25 in) and weight (25 lbs). He has finally mastered real crawling and is no longer "military" crawling. He has also started pulling himself up to a stand near the couch, coffee table, etc. One morning he crawled up onto the fireplace. He also was standing up in his crib this morning when I went in to get him. Ai-yai-yai...a glimpse of what's to come. On another good note, he will be out of the helmet in 2-3 weeks. His asymmetry measurement used to be 11mm before the helmet and now it's down to 4mm (3 mm is normal). Hooray!