Happy Birthday to Me!

Last week I celebrated my first birthday. It was awesome. All sorts of friends and family were there. Here is Ada trying to teach Carter and me how to walk. Evidently walking makes it easier to steal toys.

It's not a b-day party if there isn't some pong! I love ping pong because it gives me numerous opportunities to say my favorite word, "BALL". BALLBALLBALLBALLBALLBALLBALL! When your vocabulary consists of 5 words (mom, dad, dog, ball, alligator), you have to use them as often as possible.

Here I am playing with Neva in the new sandbox that I got from G-ma and G-pa. I'm slowly learning that sand is not good to eat.

Showtime! My first birthday cake! This is great- you get to set things on fire and then eat lots of sugar. Mom made some awesome cupcakes and dad 'accidentally' bought re-light candles.

Score = mom 1, dad 0.

Actually, the frosting was the best part. All that chocolate kept me up late into the night.

Babies Gone Wild! - Spring Break 2011

Over 'spring' break, we returned to the depths of winter and spent a few days in the San Juan Mts. in southern Colorado. I got to hang out with my best friend Carter, dad got to go skiing (surprise, surprise), and mom recovered from a nasty cold (not easy when staying at over 10,000 feet).

Dad = sled dog. Mush, mush White Fang.

A sled is a great place for a nap -especially after crying all night and waking up everyone else in the hut.

Two peas in a pod...

After all that fun in the sun, I needed to relax with a frosty beverage (for those grandparents and concerned citizens in the audience - I should mention that the beer was empty - more or less).

Home on the Range

It's been nice and warm here so I get to go outside and do some grazing on the lawn (a.k.a the dirt pile).

Ummm, when will it stop being acceptable for my dad to post photos of my bare ass online? Someone please make it stop - these images are going to haunt me for the rest of my life.

I'm a regular comedian and a budding herpetologist. Here I am telling one of my favorite jokes "What do baby pythons play with? Rattle-snakes". Ba-dum, dum - thank you ladies and germs....

Thankfully this photo is black and white so you can't see that I've got a big green booger coming out of my nose. I've been sick a lot lately. Not fun.

Little Puppy

Dad is convinced that taking care of me is like taking care of a puppy. I'll take that as a compliment - I love puppies! Here I am showing off some of my dog-like skillz. Supposedly bad dogs eat trash.

Bad dogs also like to climb onto the dishwasher and look for sharp items to play with.

It is tough carrying things when crawling like a dog. Until mom and dad get me a fanny pack, I'll have to rely on my woodchuck teeth.

This is the new food bowl I inherited from Gunther - looks about right.

Stand and Deliver

I'm growing so fast and I love standing tall. Watch out WNBA, here I come!

Thursday

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I get to hang out with dad all day (actually, dad gets to hang out with _me_ all day). We do lots of fun stuff - here are some photos from our day today.

Dad lets me crawl around in the living room without a diaper (don't tell mom) - definitely some Risky Business.

Dad was ignoring me, so I had to take matters into my own hands and read myself a book. Yep - I'm pretty precocious.

After all that reading and prancing around nudie, I had to take a nap. For some reason, I only go to sleep when I'm being carried around the neighborhood on my pet mule.

After nap time, it was time to do some grocery shopping. Here I am next to my favorite item at the grocery store. This pouty face was unleashed to get dad to put more bananas in the cart.

By the end of the day, dad was ready to feed me to a saber-toothed tiger. Good thing I'm not a baby growing up in the Pleistocene.

Jaws

Evidently Grandma was pissed at dad for being slow to update my blog. So here you go - a collage of cuteness to appease my fans. I like to ham it up for the camera (ummm, ham - that reminds me that I'm hungry...)

With all the crawling I've been doing lately, I've been eating a lot of food - pastrami, quinoa, goat cheese, pickles, dried peas off the ground, bananas with a side of lint - you name it and it gets engulfed. I'm kind of like a great white shark in a high chair.

Stay tuned for videos of my dance moves (no joke).