A Just the Girls Trip

So mommy and I made a trip north to see Grandma Dineen after her surgery. Nothing major...just a gall bladder removal which means she can go back to eating french fries WITH me now :) yay!



So mommy didn't think I would but yup I slept from home to Syracuse. Which was nice and peaceful for mommy.


Then she woke me up so we could get some lunch and a new friend :)


Then I feel asleep again between Syracuse and Watertown


Atleast I had a new friend to lean on :) Meet Buttercup! My new small fry friend :)


So then we visited for a few days and came back. No pics from when we were there. But here I am in the Watertown mall :) Checking out the ball thingy :)


Here I am watching it and spinning a little. It was fun to stretch my legs!




We stopped again in Syracuse...for the mall again. Mommy and I didn't really like the Auntie Ann's pretzels we got in Watertown so we were a little hungry. I really liked the chicken though! Can you guess from where?



Oh and check out the shirt mommy found on the drive back down :) She thinks it is REALLY cute :)

Teethies

Check them out Grandma :) You can see them all in this shot :)

Who knew mac & cheese could make me this happy :)

Brushing My Teeth

Alright so after feeling all sorts of pressure from her friends, mommy decided she should brush my teeth...or maybe it's because I have 6 of them now. Who knows :) Here is my first time with the tooth brush :)

14 Months

I'm 14 months old! So lets see...since mommy was pretty bad about posting this month I must have alot to tell you, or maybe it's why she hasn't posted...hmmm.


So this month I started having LOTS of friends coming over. They were coming everyday for awhile. I didn't like it all that much. I mean it was okay, but I didn't get alot of mommy's attention, I had to share. I didn't like that. I do like however some of the things we do when we have peoples over :) We also finger painted. I hope we do more of that, it was fun :)

I know how to give kisses and I LOVE giving them. I usually spend the first few minutes of any visit with kiddos giving them big hugs. They seem to not like them as much as I do :\ I also don't always give closed mouth kisses, but mommy is trying to teach me that.

Lets see...I'm not wearing 18 month clothing. It's a little big on me, but the 12 month stuff is getting a little too small, so i'm right in the middle. Last mommy checked I'm still right around 20ish pounds. I walked just fine now I only fall alot when I get tired acting or when I'm being chased. I eat three meals a day and two snacks. I get milk when I first wake...then something for breakfast. Some of my favorites are toast, yogurt and bananas.

(look closely at THAT picture grandpa! ;) )

I eat a snack with some water or milk around 10, then at 12 some lunch with milk. I love my snacks (puffs, goldfish, and crunchies). Lunch is another matter. I don't tend to eat well during lunch and dinner. I love bread, but most other things I don't..well I do sometimes. I will eat anything mommy wants to spoon feed me, but sometimes I just don't like to feed myself.

After lunch I take a long nap and then when I get up I drink some juice and have another small snack. Then later on after daddy comes home I have dinner. I love things like pasta and rice, but sometimes I don't even eat them, although cheese is always a favorite.

I babble alot. I like to yell things like "bear" although I don't understand that thats a real word. I do know what a ball is though :) I let mommy know others ways I want things. Like at dinner when they have my cup on the table, I point to it. I still say "that" but not as often. Daddy tries all the time to get me to say "Em". I'm not sure what he wants me to do. Oh and I know "uh oh" and "oh" but I don't use them correctly yet. Well that is atleast what mommy says.

I get to play with the kitties more, but sometimes I'm mean to them...so they are starting to run from me again. Tera is especially a little more tolerable. I even laid on her the other day.


I think that is all I really have to report. Bye for now :)

Trip to Philly

So we went on our first trip as just our little family :) We didn't go to far, but we went to Philly :)
Here I am checking out the bathroom. I think it was nice :) I loved how I got to play with the toilet paper and run around naked !

On our first day we went to zoo. I loved it! Here you can see me walking daddy :)


Here is daddy and I checking out the tiger :) He was BIG!


Mommy found me a special outfit the day before in the Carter's outlet :) See my special toucan shirt for the zoo :) We didn't see any toucans though.


We really liked looking at the tigers. We could get pretty close to them too :) We also got to see Hippos, monkeys, polar bears, penguins, all sorts of cats, gorillas, and crocodiles.
One of the gorillas actually attacked the glass that the people were standing behind. He wanted to look back at the people I guess. We didn't see the whole thing, just part of it. But it was neat.
We also got to see some pretty neat lego exhibits. Like one was a polar bear made nothing but of legos! Very cool.


Here is daddy standing by a penguin :) This was outside the gift shop, which is where daddy bought mommy a special red panda stuffed animal :) I like it too! I cuddled with it the rest of the trip.


The next day we went to the Franklin Institute. Which was cool. I really like it. Here is daddy trying to get things to work by letting electricity go through him. It worked too. Mommy wouldn't get close enough to let daddy zap her though. Oh we also heard and saw a Tesla coil go off.


Here is the gears that I really liked to play with! Check out the video of me making them move :)

Here is daddy trying out surfing. He did pretty good too :) We also saw a planetarium show on black holes, a real steam train that even moved, all sorts of space things, and mommy and daddy even got to operate a crane :)



My favorite room was probably the heart room. I got to climb through arteries and we walked through a heart. I got to climb up and down all sorts of stairs and spaces.




There are many more pictures here in daddy's picasa gallery.

Hehehehe...I found my dresser :)

See what happens when mommy leaves me alone in my room :) I redecorate !

BOOTS!

So Mommy wasn't going to buy me boots, but I batted my eyes at her and said pretty please and it worked :) So when we got home she found that the same size she bought we already had a pair that our nice neighbor gave us :) That was pretty cool and these are WAY cooler than the ones mommy bought me. She tried them on me and they were so comfy I didn't want her to take them off. See me sporting my new boots!