Growing Up!

I'm learning new things every day and definitely am not a baby anymore!

I got to help with some chopping for dinner one night.  Of course I didn't actually eat any of the dinner myself since it wasn't on my short list of approved foods.  And I like to give the neighborhood a show sometimes after bath time!

I figured out how to sneak around the fireplace fence so Mom and Dad took that down.  Now I have a stage for everyone to watch me!  In the mornings before school this is how Paul and I each breakfast every day.  He's not always this nice though and I have to tell him "Not Nice!" when he gets too close to my food!

I'm getting to be a big boy but sometimes it's still nice to just snuggle a little bit!

Grandma and Grandpa Hermansen brought me a puzzle last time they visited.  It didn't take long and I've got it figured out now!

And of course no matter how young or old you are, this is one of the best sounds in the world!

Chuck E Cheese!

I had my first trip to Chuck E Cheese to celebrate my friend Davis's birthday.  I rode some rides and played some games.  I ate pizza too - you can add that to my limited menu of food I'll eat!  The only thing I didn't like - and I really didn't like it - was Chuck E Cheese himself!  Seriously, who wants to give a hug to a giant, furry rat??  Not this guy...

Skee ball was my favorite!  The balls were just the right size for me!

Here I am riding one of the rides that had a camera built in.  I was okay with that guy because he didn't move and was plastic.  

Centennial Park!

The other weekend we went to the Highlands Summerfest.  It was so hot!  Mom even let me try her frozen lemonade to cool me off!  After the festival we went to Centennial Park to check out the fountains.  We definitely didn't go prepared with extra clothes or a towel and I think I surprised Mom and Dad with how into (literally) the fountains I was!

First I wanted to check it out with Dad but then I got brave enough to venture into it myself!

And what do you do when Mom and Dad don't come prepared (except for a diaper)?  You run around the park in your diaper of course!

Here's a video of some of the fun I was having in the fountains!

Weekend Water Fun!

Now that it's getting hot outside, I've been able to play in water outside!  No one would call me a water baby, but I'm getting more and more brave each time!

One weekend we got out the beach toy bucket and the hose.  Dad showed me how to blow bubbles and I gave it a try myself!

Here's two videos of the water fun I was having!

The next weekend I went to the Marietta Farmers Market with Mom and Grandma.  There was a big fountain in the park so of course I splashed around in that for a little bit.  Then I played on the choo choo train that had a slide!

17 Months!

I'm 17 months old now (well technically 2+ weeks ago)!  Everyday is a new day for me and there is just so much to learn.  Last month at school I learned about the color blue (if you ask me my favorite color - right now it's blue).  This month I'm learning about the color purple - not my favorite color yet though.  I'm learning opposites too!  If you bang on the table (hard), I know that the opposite of that is soft so I rub my hair since it's soft.  And I can show you my ears, my nose and my belly!

And everyone has been keeping it a secret from me that the right way to each watermelon is in slices - no more cut up cubes for me!

On my board it says I can eat with a fork now - here's some proof of that! (Before I learned about watermelon slices!)

Night Away!

A couple of weekends ago, I had a night away from Mom and Dad and stayed with Grandma and Grandpa Young.  We had a fun time!  It was hot so I got to play in some water outside.

Mom didn't get a picture before I left, but they packed me all up in my own suitcase for the night away.  Here's the picture from Christmas when I first got my suitcase!

At Grandma and Grandpa's house we had some snuggle time in bed and I even got to eat breakfast in my swing!

Strawberries!

I love fruit!  So can you imagine how excited I was to go pick strawberries the other weekend??!!  As you can imagine I ate way more strawberries than I contributed to the bucket we brought home.  Then I ate a good portion of those too!

It was pretty sunny out so I had to wear my shades! 

They had some goats and donkeys and chickens at the farm!  Of course they are all a "dog" to me...

Here I am stuffing my face with a strawberry and then that bucket that I didn't contribute to picking!

The other great part of the trip was that there were real tractors on the farm!  I pointed them out every chance I got.  If you listen really closely to the video, you might be able to hear me talking about the "tractor"!