And today's words are...

"Foo-baaa booo!"
i.e. "football blue!"

Today Mom, Miss Leah, Cal and I met up with some kids from the Minneapolis playgroup at a sprinkler park. It took me a while to feel comfortable enough playing on my own, but after we were there for a while I was running back and forth through the sprinklers with a plastic toy from Monsters, Inc. (I don't know where that came from but I liked it.) It was a fun way to spend a HOT afternoon.

Also, today's new words included: stick and teeth. I am pretty good at trying almost any word that my parents ask me to say. It doesn't always come out correctly but the point is that I'm trying. I am not 100 percent on my colors yet as I get stuck on purple and yellow a lot - those were the first I learned to say - maybe they are my favorites? I guess I'll make a good Vikings fan.

Lunching with Cal.

Cal's friend Hannah had hives so he hung out with us this Wednesday.

I love The Wiggles!

Wow! The Wiggles are so fun! My mom borrowed a Wiggles VHS tape from the library and I loved them so much that my mom broke down and bought me my very own Wiggles DVD (Toot Toot for those of you who are familiar). This way we can fast forward to the songs - my favorite part.

My favorite character is Wags. I get so excited when I see him, I point to the TV, pat my leg, squawk out something that might be "Wags" and turn around in circles. Then I dig.

Here's me dancing to "Move Your Arms Like Henry"

Damn I'm good looking

Today's fun

Today Mama and Daddy took me to one of most magical places I've ever been. There were rides, games, lots of other kids, and a Mouse seemed to be running the show. We met up with Kennedy and her folks and had so much fun! No, we weren't in Anaheim or Orlando, we were at the Burnsville Chuck E. Cheese!

Here are some pictures:


Me, going down the slide. Wee!


KP was riding the carousel so I jumped on, too!


And here she comes! KP on the carousel.


There were lots of rides to drive here - I was in paradise!


That's my girl KP!


Watching Daddy set the Chuck E. Cheese hoops record.

Big Trucking

This morning Mama and Daddy took me to the Mall of America. It was so fun! I liked watching some of the big rides go by, and whined to go on the Battle Axe, but I'm still too little (boo!). But I did get to ride Big Trucking twice! It's this cool ride where I get to sit up in a Big Rig, in a line of other Big Riges and "drive" it around a loop. I'm really good a honking the horn and steering. My mom rode with me the first time and my dad the second - they just wanted to get in on the fun, it's not like I needed a chaperone.

I also played for a while at Legoland, got to eat part of a rice crispie treat for snack, and tried to open a few of the shop doors earlier on before most of the mall opened - I even did better at staying with Mama and Daddy while walking around. The MOA is a fun place.

Oh, and lest I forget, I saw the Teletubbies on TV for the first time today and I quite enjoyed them, to my parents' horror.

Pictorial Update

Me, Cal and Miss Leah's foot. Taken the day my parents closed on our new home: June 5, 2006.


My new posse, getting ice cream at Izzy's. (I had a blueberry Izzy. Mmmmm!)


My first rock injury: a HUGE knot!


What?! Haven't you ever fallen head-first into a set of bongos? I'm sure Matthew McConaughey has!


Me and KP. Aren't we sweet? Father's Day 2006


The 'rents bought a new car! The fam and our Mazda5, June 22nd, 2006.


Playing on Nokomis Beach with Cal - that's me in the yellow hat, getting all sandy. June 23, 2006.

Fun in Mini Apples

I am having too much fun with my friends here in Mini Apples to stop and post in my blog - sorry! I have lots of pictures and will hopefully get a few cute ones up soon. We've done so much stuff since moving here - going to the lake, playing at many different parks, lots of trips to the Home Dee-po (sometimes in the race car cart!), hanging out at the ice cream shops with my friends, dinner at my friend Cal's, holding hands with KP, and, of course, getting one very large knot and cut on my forehead (Daddy calls it my first rock-n-roll injury).

Some of my favorite new words: Texas! (which I learned at the tail-end of my trip to Texas), Bevo, Balloon and Yucky.

Also, during a trip to Wal-Mart yesterday I became enamored with a pair of suede gloves. They were on clearance from the winter (only $1!!!), and chances are they won't fit me properly until I'm seven, but I had to have them. I like to put them on my hands and clap, or just wear them when I'm sitting around. I wore one while I was eating lunch, I even went down for my nap wearing them.

Buh-Bah Alpharetta beauties

This is my Alpharetta playgroup. For those of you who don't know, I'm the big stud getting the smooch laid on me by pretty Miss Leya. These are all my Georgia girl friends. I'll miss them.


From left: Rachel, Leya, me, Annalyse, Noor, Jordana, Sophie

I WALK!

I walk. I walk. I walk I walk I walk. I walk walk walk. I walk walk walk. I walk. I walk. I walk. I walk.

I WALK!!!!

Yesterday I had my second first hair cut.

Um, hello. Who are you?


Cleaning up the 'do.


Stylin'

Today's Adventure: Drinking Dog Water

head in the bowl


head out of the bowl

"Mmmm! Dog water!"

Ugggh....Mustard

Note to self, mustard is kinda gross. Especially Whole Food Kids Organic Mustard. I'll go one step further, Whole Foods Mustard is really, really gross with pears. Just trust me on this one.

In other news...

Yesterday I turned 18 months old! Mom and Daddy took me for a photo shoot, which I rocked.

Here is one picture from the shoot:

I *loved* this rocking chair! Mom loves my red shoes.

Mourning my blue hat.

I must have thrown my favorite blue hat overboard the stroller without Mom noticing sometime on Friday. The very first and most awesome hat I've ever had is lost. Mom is very sad. We even went back through the parking lot yesterday to look for it. It is lost. Mom is very very sad.

My new favorites.

*Smart Dogs

I love Smart Dogs, just like Mom. Today for lunch I ate one and a half whole Smart Dogs! I could probably win a hot dog eating contest if the dogs provided were Smart Dogs. I am a great eater.

* Airplanes

I saw an airplane flying above our house yesterday. I was very excited about this, pointing up and squawking to let Mom know about it. Since I was so excited Mom ran in and quick learned the sign for airplane so she could teach me. Now I know it. This morning I got up and walked to the back door, looking up and signing for airplane. I went to my friend Leya's house this morning and told her about the airplane. I keep talking about the plane. Planes are cool.

* Lights

When I first got to Leya's this morning I was a little upset because Mom left but then I noticed another really cool thing: a huge light hanging from their ceiling. The lighting section at Home Depot calms me down if I've been in the cart for too long at that store (it's kind of boring for a baby!) so it's no surprise that I was distracted by looking at that big awesome light in Leya's house. I even showed it to Mom when she came back to get me. I asked if we could get a big hanging light in our new house but I don't know if she understood me. Mom needs to learn the sign for light. I better go tell her....

Sinko day My-oh

So yesterday was like this day where a bunch of Americans (mostly white people) go out and celebrate Sinko day My-oh. I think it has something to do with Mexico and France. I'm not for certain most Americans know why they are celebrating, but let me tell you, they do.

So my parents (still free to any home) loaded me up in the Jetta and headed to our local Mexican dive. They both quinched their thirst with margaritas but dadda's was much taller than mama's. I got to eat a bunch of chips, guacamole, and dadda's favorite dish, fish tacos (pescado?). I also tore it up on the dance floor to the tunes of "Blind Drive." "Deaf Drive" would have been a more apt name in my humble opinion. Either way, I shook it like a Polaroid picture.

During dinner, I got my very own maraca. Mama had to put up with a drunk dadda, "Blind Drive," and a messy baby and all she got was a free Sinko day My-oh t-shirt. Rough life. Dadda took her for ice cream afterwards though. Viva Mexico.

Free parents to any home.

Two parents, a Mom and a Daddy, can be yours! They are cramping my style right now so I've decided to see if I can give them away. They will make you wear a diaper, they will make you sit in your highchair to eat, they will clothe you, bathe you, read to you, play with you and shower you with an abundance of affection. It is a great hardship for any baby, but if you'd like to take on this challenge that I've been dealt please respond. Email for pic of said parents. I can confirm that they both have good teeth.

My First Signs

Inspired by Cal (http://calmiller.blogspot.com/) I picked up my first signing book today called My First Signs. Just before Easter I started picking up a few of this things Mom's been signing: "more" "eat" "milk" and "drink" so I think this is a great next step. My friend Cal knows lots of signs (he even has signs good manners!) so both Mom and I are very excited to learn more. Well, once I get over being sick we'll tackle that. Right now avoiding a nose wiping is first on my baby agenda.