Life's a Picnic

On Wednesday night, June 15th, I had swim lessons and guess who showed up...BobBob and Ta!  Grandpa even got in the pool to swim with me. 

I was so tired that I didn't wake when mom brought me in the house and set me in my high chair.  She actually had to give me a bath first to wake me up so I'd eat dinner :-)

Dad got home Friday night just in time to pick me up from daycare!  A whole week without dad time was brutal.  To celebrate, on Saturday we had a picnic in the front yard before heading to the lake for the weekend.

We arrived at the lake late Saturday night and spent Father's Day Sunday swimming in a kid pool and playing with awesome Omagles.  This set was from when Mom was just a youngin'.  Who knew BobBob and Ta were so hip to foster "Free Play" which is supposed to be really good for me and boosts my creativity?  It kept dad busy for a good couple hours as well!  Note - please don't judge my beer belly (see below), afterall...I am at the lake.

You can see who has the upper hand in the family.

Saturday morning we didn't swim officially in the lake, but we did swim in lake water...in the kiddie pool on the dock!  I did borrow this cute suit from Avery Davenport.  Thanks friend!  You can also see that dad made me a makeshift cabana.  So chic!

And by Saturday afternoon we were ready to "put in" at the neighbors boat launch.

I can walk behind my push toy on my own now.

Backtracking to Thursday, Mom and I totally made the nightly news! Article and video (2nd video). Okay so they darn people didn't put my face on, but I'm sitting in the stroller.

The Letter C: Cookie Monster, Crabs, and Cough

First off, apologies for the lengthy post.  I've accumulated a wealth of photos and stock footage of my new mobilities over the past week.  If it's too much to read, just do what mom does with her US Weekly and gloss over the pics.

The weekend was a little rough on me.  I picked up a cough that keeps me up at night.  Mom took me to the doc Friday just to be sure I didn't have an ear infection, but I got the all clear.  Regardless, I still felt kind of crummy.  The highlights were seeing daycare teacher Lindsay on Friday night while mom and dad had date night and visiting with Jayson and Jen from church and getting to do a little outside BBQ with them on Saturday evening.

Dad left town on Sunday evening and doesn't get back until Friday morning.  I assume he'll drop by to see me at lunch on Fri (hint hint).  In the afternoon I headed over to see BobBob and Ta.  Aunt Brandi and the fam was over there and she looked like she could pop.  Apparently there's a baby in her belly.  What the what?  I also picnic'ed outside with grandpa.  I had a good time until about 5:30pm and then I just petered out.  Mom packed me up early and I was asleep in the car before we even left the driveway. 

To help remind mom how valuable dad is to have around the house, I woke her up at 2am on Monday morning with my cough and made her rock me back to sleep for half an hour :-) Since I only slept for 30 minutes at daycare, I napped for an hour and a half when I got home from school on Monday, and when I woke up, "Auntie" Nicole was there to greet me.  She educated me on the fun qualities of talking cookie monster.

On Tuesday, June 14th we went out to visit BobBob and gave him an early Father's Day gift since we won't see him on Sunday.  I helped him unwrap it.  Grandma took me to the Asian food market where I got to play with crabs (shout out to Mike D).

Wednesday Mimi came to seem me in the afternoon. 

Here's me and my "big girl" walk.  I'm down to one handed support!

Here's some footage of me pulling up and sitting down. I've been doing this for awhile, but mom and dad forgot to tape.



Here's me and my bud Matthew from school.  Love his shorts!

Here are a few pics from when I had my J Todd Photo shoot a month + 2 weeks ago.

 

 

 

Overnighter

On Saturday, June 5th I spent the night at Mimi's so mom and dad could enjoy a night out.  And boy did they ever!  While I was busy playing with toys and making Mimi chase me around the house (I'm really turning into a fast crawler), mom and dad hit up Chuckie Cheese for my cousin Pierce's birthday, then went to dinner with Uncle Dave, Pat, and Nicole and hit up a movie as well.  Busy night for them.  Mimi and Max brought me home safe and sound on Sunday and we all enjoyed a nice brunch!

As you may know, this week has been a hot one so I've spent a lot more time indoors than normal.  Mom and pop did let me outside to try out my new pool!  I'm medium on swimming still and even though I did do a little splashing around, I would prefer to just walk around the deck. 

Dido dropped by for dinner on Monday.  We had pizza to help the poor people of Joplin.  15% of proceeds went to help the tornado victims.  But really, do you need a reason to eat pizza?

On Wednesday I was supposed to have swimming lesson #2.  When we arrived the community center was closed due to Shavuot. Shavuotwhat?  On a positive note I squeezed in an hour nap during all that driving around. But sadly, dad still hasn't seen me in the big kid pool and will be traveling all next week and has to miss my next lesson.

In this pic I think the Duncan's would agree that I look a lot like Uncle Ronnie as a baby.  Must be that look of innocence and guilt all wrapped into one.  Of course it doesn't help that mom dresses me in boy PJs...something about they were on sale cheap.

Thursday was same stuff different day.  I did pick up this new trick however.  Mom remebers Mason Roue trying something similar.



I'm really getting my walking on too!

Water Off a Duck's Back

Busy weekend/week for me again.  We headed to the lake on Friday night (May 27) right at bed time.  I adjusted to sleeping in the pack and play pretty well and spent most of my time roaming around the kitchen and tv room.  We took a few walks with the doggies and spent some time on the dock although the water was too cool to swim.  Maybe in a few weeks!!

I do however want to mention what mom found digging through the lake house closet.  Uhhh Pampers from 1977/1978!!!! Seriously Grandma Ta, you need to throw some stuff away occasionally. But then I guess we wouldn't have these fun pictures.  For one thing, I didn't know they made Pampers in 1977 and secondly, they looked like a paper towel.  Thank goodness for technological improvements.

Seriously.  How does this even begin to resemble a diaper made today?

We got back from the lake late Sunday evening and got the chance to meet Uncle Dave's new girlfriend before I headed off to bed.  She sat outside and watched bubbles with us!  A+ Uncle Dave.

Monday, May 30th was Memorial Day, so no school for me.  We headed up to Mimi's to have a little cookout dinner.  Cousin's Audrey and Ingrid surprised me with a cute little "I Love Daddy" shirt and some seersucker pants that I will be growing into soon.  How did they know I love dad?  Thanks cousins!!!

Tuesday afternoon, school called mom because I woke up from a long nap with gook eyes (I mean they already look Asian, but this time were filled with green stuff) and informed her that I apparently had come down with a case of pink eye.  Dad picked me up and called the Doc and I got some special drops that made me instantly not contagious so I could head back to school the next day.

Wednesday I started swim lessons!!!  Mom eased me into the pool I had an okay time.  She dipped me down to where the water was over my mouth, tried to put me on my back (not a fan), and then held me under my tummy while I kicked my legs and splashed.  I'm not quite a fish in water, but hopefully after 7 more lessons that'll change.  I had class with my friend Amelia and also Wil Evert.

 

Afterwards, I was so tired, I fell asleep in the car seat before mom left the parking lot.

 

Here I am taking my first dip into scariness.

Here's a couple more lake pics:

And I've started doing this funny thing with my tongue.  It really makes mom and dad laugh.