Today we celebrated the one-week anniversary of Kato’s arrival.

To mark the occasion, we took him to see the middle school art show at the Kohl Gallery at Washington College.

Alden works there part time as a sanitation engineer for gallery director Donald McColl, a kindly fellow who seems perfectly willing to overlook Maryland’s stringent child labor laws.

When we got home, Alden showed her enthusiasm for Kato’s big anniversary by building him a tower.

She followed this up by piling blankets on his head. Apparently, this is the very best way to commemorate the first week of life.

As if to prove her fearsome strength, Robbi celebrated Kato’s big day by attending a yoga class this evening. I did not take a picture of her in her yoga getup, because this is a family blog with standards of decency to maintain.

For my part, I think there is no better way to mark a festive occasion than to wear a jaunty red cap.

As evidence, here is the first photo (of many, I am sure) in which I will try to convince you that Kato is smiling, even though he’s surely not, since babies this small don’t smile. They do, however, get gassy, which seems to produce similar facial contortions and is the likely explanation for the non-smile/wince seen here.

Or we can tell ourselves that he’s just pleased as punch to be wearing that jaunty red hat on his one-week birthday. Yes, on second thought, I’m fairly sure that’s what’s going through his mind.