Hellllllllllllllllllllllllo devoted fans!
I'm a whole eleven months old and I'm lovin' it.
There's so much stuff that I can do now, I can't even remember it all. So, ya gotta bear with me. I think what I'm gonna do is split it up by discipline. It might help organize my thoughts.
Wait a second. Let me get my pen so I can jot all this down.
Huh? What? What's that you're saying? Paper? Who needs paper? That is so environmentally unfriendly. I'll just use the table. Trust me. It's allllll gooooooood.
Okay, let's see.
STANDING & WALKING:
I got this cool activity table in the past month. It plays all sorts of tunes and recites ABC's and stuff. It rocks. My favorite thing about it is that I can dance to the music. I love to get my groove on.
I'm standing up on my own. I don't need to use anything to pull up with. It's only gonna be a matter of time before I master this walking thing. Trust me when I say, I'm totally workin' on it. Full time. I use just about anything I can get my hands on to practice. I push laundry baskets, I push toy boxes, I use my walker, I use the coffee table, I even use Mommy to walk me around. I can't wait 'till I can walk. Ohhhhhhh, is there gonna be trouble around here and it's gonna start with a capital K!
Here are some examples of my standing prowess:
And now, ladies and gentlemen, for my next trick I will pull a rabbit out of this bowl!!! ILUVPEANUTBUTTERSANDWICHES!!!!!
Here's an impression for you. See if you can figure this one out.
"They drew first blood. Not me."
Oh yeah, I like to try to climb on things. I've climbed the stairs a couple of times already. Goin' up is easy. Goin' down, uh, well, I haven't really figured that one out yet. Mommy and Daddy don't seem to be amused. Notice in the following pic the ingenious device they have used to block off the stairs. Now, if I just climb onto this bin maybe I can pull myself over the bench......
EATING:
I like eating. I love to feed myself. I've tried all sorts of new stuff in the past month. One of my favorites is grapes. My favorite thing to do is to shove about twenty peices of grape into my mouth and suck out all the good stuff. Then I gum the grape peels for hours afterwards. MMMMMMMM, grapes.
So far, there isn't much that I don't like in the solids department. But, there is one thing that I KNOW that I don't like. WATERMELON. Bleck.
TALKING:
It's hard to demonstrate talking with pictures. Mommy and Daddy seem to think that I have three words: "MaMa", "DaDa" & "GiGee" (Mickey). You see, I have LOTS of other words. They just can't understand a word of what I'm saying. They really need to brush up on their babyeeze. Jeez.
OUT AND ABOUT:
I like animals. They make me laugh. I love dogs and I love ducks. Woof, Woof. Quack, Quack. All that jazz.
Here's one of my new pals. Meet Sal the Alpaca. Say "Hola", Sal!
The weather has been nice lately, so Mommy and I have been hitting the playgrounds. I got to try going down a slide and swinging (with Mommy's help, of course). I have grown to enjoy both immensely. I think I had a wedgie in this picture.
But, despite all the outdoor activity. I STILL don't like grass.
CHAOS:
Is my middle name. Daddy says it's "Danger", but I have to disagree. My potential for disaster grows with every day. I'm so proud of myself. I can really freak Mommy out. Sometimes, she's speechless. I mean check this next picture out.
I pushed the high chair across the room, knocked over the garbage can, dropped my hat AND managed to get my head stuck in between the chair and the wall. OMG, am I awesome or what?!?!?!
Here's a nice little video for you all to enjoy. It shows a little bit of some of the skills I've picked up over the last month. I've got some talking, some standing, some dancing, some walking, me drinking from Daddy's Camelbak and other nonsense.
Well, that about wraps it up for me for this month. I know that I might have forgotten to write about a lot of what I learned this month, but you get the idea. I pick up new stuff everyday. It's hard work being so rambunctious. I really gotta concentrate.
XXXOOO love ya all!
