These initial two pictures are just the classic “messy baby photos” that everyone has to take after their child enjoys blackberries for the first time (before we became parents this would have made us cringe):

This morning we took Lex to Segals (a local kids store) to buy him a new car seat.  While there we also bought him some snazzy new See Kai Run tennis shoes.  

And of course we had to test those new shoes out at a local playground: