In May we took our annual anniversary trip - this time to Paris & Croatia. We know that people saw us getting on the plane and thought "Oh great! A baby to cry the whole 9 hours on the flight!" - shows what they know! Jonathan did really well and slept for most of the flight (we had adjusted our schedule by 4 hours starting a few days before we left, so the long part of the flight hit during the time he would be sleeping anyway!). The only problem on the flight over is that we had several diaper accidents and not enough changes of clothing! But that wasn't the baby's fault!
We found that having a baby was actually pretty nice in France - we got to cut to the front of the immigration line and on later flights, the ground crew made sure we got to board in front of most of the other passengers. Everyone on the subways smiled back at Jonathan - and at the Eifel Tower, he must have had people from 4 or 5 different countries pinching his cheeks and taking his picture... He was a big hit (it helps that he smiled a lot). Jonathan made lots of friends and even picked up a few grandparents on our bus trip to Normandy.
Perhaps that's how he got his first real cold - by the time we got to Croatia, Jonathan was running a fever and was not his usual chipper self. It was hard to be so far away from home and not sure what to do, but it broke after 1 day... but then the drainage started...and the sneezing... and the coughing...and all of that led to some not-so-restful nights. We managed and despite the cold we had a great visit with our friends from the church in Varazdin.
Other firsts this month: Jonathan has been 'waving', shaking his head 'no', trying to get on all fours (he slides backwards, though), he peeks around corners to play peek-a-boo, and is enjoying picking up Cheerios to put in his mouth by himself.
