Happy Halloween!

I think I'm going to like this Halloween thing. Mommy and Daddy have been dressing me up in silly costumes for the last 2 weeks. It's kinda fun!

Here I am at the punkin patch:

This is the sock monkey costume that Grammy Kilian got me:

Here I am in my dinosaur costume that Daddy and Mommy's friend Heather got me. Dylan is a cowboy. YEE HAW!!!

And here I am in the costume that Mommy got me. I'm a guitar. ROCK ON!!!

I can't wait until next year! I'm going to make Mommy and Daddy dress up, too!

Solids?

So after the 'nana experience Mommy and Daddy got very excited about feeding me "solids". I don't know why they call them that. There's not much "solid" about the goop they give me. Mostly it's just kinda soupy.

But some of it is really yummy and I want more, More, MORE!!!

And some of it... not so much.

There's one thing for sure, though, I LOVE making messes! Gimme some more, please!

Plumbing

Note: Due to the extreme graphic nature of this post, parental supervision is advised.

After we got back from camping, Mommy and Daddy kept feeding me more and more 'nanas. I love them and always want more! However, after a while I started having a bit more trouble with my plumbing. Things were just clogged up and moving a little slower "down there". I didn't think much of it, but Mommy and Daddy and Nanny Bella seemed a little concerned. No worries guys, my tummy was just working overtime on all the new foods!

A few days after we got back I went 4 days without making a mess of a single diaper. Mommy and Daddy were trying their best to get the process moving. It was fun to play bicycle with my legs so much, but nothing seemed to happen.

Then, we went for a walk to meet up with some other Mommy's and Daddy's. We stopped on the way back so Daddy could nap in the breeze on a great day. Mommy and I hung out a little bit.

















No way was I going to let Daddy nap on such a beautiful day! There was a loud rumbling in my tummy, and then Mount Riley erupted! Mommy screamed out loud, and then people were running away screaming, birds were dropping to the ground from the stench, and we started to hear emergency sirens going off!
















It wasn't 3 minutes later that all these people in funny suits showed up and started putting up all this bright yellow tape. It wasn't so bad - I like yellow!

















The guys in the suits were really nice! They said that it would be best if I started wearing this cool sticker on the back of my pants all the time, in case an "accident" like this were to happen again!

JJ's First Birthday

A few weeks ago, Mommy and Daddy packed up nearly everything they owned and headed off on a very long drive to a campsite in Lake Casitas. That's way far away, in Southern California. I had lots of fun traveling in the car with Mommy and Daddy singing to me the whole time. We were going there for a big party for my cousin JJ. Here's JJ with his Mommy and Daddy.

Apparently camping and birthdays mean that we get to eat a lot and have lots of fun, two things I'm particularly good at. I'm glad I was invited! I got to wear my sunhat and meet lots of new people.



































My cousin JJ turned 1 year old, which means he got to make a mess of a piece of cake and not get in trouble, which he liked a lot. Everybody was staring and smiling and singing to him, which would freak me out too!

We got to hang out with my Grammy and Grandpa a lot.






























Grandpa and Uncle Jason got JJ and I matching outfits! Aren't we awesome?


While we were there, Grammy and Mommy had a conversation that I could tell was about me and food. I kept hearing the word "ready" and "banana" and "why not?", and the next thing I know they were putting something goopy and sweet in my mouth. It was... interesting.





























I'm always up for something new, though, and after a little while it actually started tasting really good. More nana, please!

Mommy also started giving me "raspberries", but that wasn't like the nana. She kept trying to put it on the outside of my belly, where I couldn't taste them. Raspberries are weird, they kind of tickle.

At the big party Mommy and Daddy put this funny thing on my head and told me to smile. It was very loud there with lots of other kids and grown ups around. Some of the kids thought these party things were really fun, until my kung-fu action grip broke the toy.



Then they brought the cake out. I had my plate ready, what's with the line??


Not that I needed cake, apparently, as I'm pretty well rounded already. Daddy thinks I look like the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man. Whoever that is!

































I also got to bounce around with Daddy in a bouncehouse, which was pretty crazy and a little scary. I was glad to get back on solid ground. I'm happy enough just looking at grass.


After a long day of partying, we were all pretty tired. It was a little cold outside and I woke up early, so Mommy and Daddy let me sleep in bed with them to stay warm! I was very cozy and snuggly sleeping on Daddy's arm for 3 hours!



Daddy's arm was "asleep" for the rest of the day, but I woke up happy and refreshed, ready to conquer another day!


Camping is becoming one of my favorite activities! Except when they leave me in the tent - let me out, I wanna play!!



I can't wait for my first birthday - I already have my hat ready!

Busy Busy Busy!

Where on earth does the time go? Seems like only yesterday I was just a teeny tiny baby that did nothing but eat, sleep and poop. Well, OK, I still do a alot of those things, but I do other stuff, too.

Mommy got me a mirror to play with when I do tummy time. I think she thinks that it distracts me so I don't realize that I'm on my tummy. She's wrong, of course, but I like the mirror so much that I stay on my tummy for a while. Plus, it makes Mommy happy. When I get bored with the mirror I just flop over onto my back which makes Mommy and Daddy laugh and clap which I don't really understand. What's the big deal?

The other day I got to help Mommy open up a package from Great Grandpa Kilian and Florrie. Turned out all the stuff inside was for me! They made me a quilt with somebody named Bart Simpson on it. Mommy says I better not ever behave like Bart but he looks nice enough on my quilt so I'm not sure why. They also made me a thingy that goes into shopping cart seats to make them comfy. It looks like a doggie. I can't wait to try that out just as soon as I can sit up by myself. I'm still practicing that. But the best part about getting presents is playing in the box!

We also got to go to a puppet show in the park. Mostly Mommy and Daddy stood around taking pictures of me which they do all the time anyway so I don't know why we went to the park to do it. There was one really neat puppet that looked like a doggy. It was a Mary Annette puppet, whatever that means. Seems like they just shoulda called it the doggy puppet.

Mommy and Daddy say its important to have a bedtime routine. We do lots of stuff to get ready for bed at our house. Mommy feeds me and gets me to burp. Then I get to get naked and do one of my all time favorite things: take a bath. Baths are so much fun! I love splashing around in the water and seeing how much stuff I can get wet.

Then I get a massage with some yummy smelling lotion. After that we play a game while they get me dressed in about a million different layers of clothes. Mommy and Daddy call the game "baby wrestling". After that I'm pretty tired from all the wrestling so I get a good night kiss from one of them and the other one reads me a bedtime story. Then I get one more hug and kiss and they put me in my crib with my lovey. I like to suck on the ribbons a while before I fall asleep. I like it best when it's over my face but Mommy doesn't like it when I do that 'cause she thinks I can't breathe. But I can. It's OK, Mommy!

Good Night!

I've got skills!

Hi Everybody!

I've been really busy learning new things over the past month. All kinds of new things like rolling over and jumping in my jumperoo that Grandpa George got me...

And sitting up (which is kinda hard and Mommy and Daddy still have to help me sometimes)...




I found my toes the other day and I can even suck on them when I want to.




AND I learned how to projectile vomit on Mommy. She thought it was funny. I like making Mommy laugh.

Whew! All this learning is making me tired. Makes me want to go do the other thing I've recently learned how to do: sleep through the night. :)


Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

Auntie Michelle's Wedding

Mommy and Daddy took me on a trip to go see Mommy's friend Michelle get married. Mommy was complaining that they had packed way more stuff for me than for the two of them put together. I don't know why though. I'm so little! They had so much stuff they were going to "gate check" me. They thought it was a good idea but the lady at the counter didn't think it was funny. They even put a pink tag on my car seat just in case the lady changed her mind:

To get to Michelle's house we had to go up in this big tin thing called an airplane. It was way better than driving because I didn't have to stay in my car seat and Mommy could feed me even though we were moving. She fed me a lot on the airplane! Something about take-off and landing and my ears. I didn't pay attention much to what she was talking about, I was just excited to get to eat so much.

We got to stop off at Grandma Joan and Grandpa Jim's house for a BBQ before heading to the hotel for bed. Mommy was very excited to see everyone and I got to meet lots of nice people. At the hotel I got a big old queen size pull-out all to myself. Mommy and Daddy put cushions all around me to make me feel snuggly. I slept pretty good!

The next day we wandered around Old Town Fort Collins and that was alright. Mostly I just slept in my car seat. Then we went to Michelle's wedding. Here's Michelle with Grandma Joan and Grandpa Jim:

After the wedding we went to a reception which is kind of like a restaurant only the food is free and everybody is dressed all fancy. Mommy and Daddy dressed me all fancy, too. I was even wearing a hat that seemed to frustrate Mommy alot.

But finally she got it just right:

And we even got a family picture together with all of us dressed up all fancy:

The reception was pretty fun until the waitress bonked me in the head with the blunt end of a table knife. It really hurt and I cried a lot. But Mommy and Daddy kept their cool and took care of me. Mommy fed me and soon I felt all better. They spent the rest of the evening looking for concussions. Every time they looked for one they woke me up. I didn't like that much because I was so tired. They seemed pretty tired, too. And they never did find the concussions.

On Sunday we went to Denver to visit Mommy's friend Mack and his family. I got to get in a big bath tub called a pool. Mommy must not have checked the water on her wrist before we went in because it was colder than I'm used to. It was pretty fun, though and I hope I get to go into the big bath again sometime!

Whew! It was a long weekend and I got to do a lot of new things. Mommy says I handled it all very well. I hope that means we get to go on more trips soon!

Got my Vans on but they look like sneakers...

Mommy says I shouldn't flip people the bird. But I didn't even have a bird so I'm not sure what she's talking about. I like this outfit though and Daddy says I look gangsta. I think that means cute.

I'm 3 Months Old!

Wow, time flies! I turned 3 months old this past week and Mommy and Daddy thought it would be a good idea to go get "portraits" done. I was very excited about the portraits until I learned that "portrait" is just a fancy word for picture. What's the big deal about that?

Anyway, they got me all dressed up in one of my favorite track suits and my new Vans and drove us down to a big store called "Sears" where they make the portraits. I fell asleep in the car and was still a little groggy when they put me in this funny chair thingy and a strange lady, Mommy, Daddy AND Grandma all started to try to get me to smile. With all those people making silly faces at me and talking to me in funny voices, I didn't know who to pay attention to and it really stressed me out! So, most of the pictures... portraits... whatever(!) look like this:

But the picture lady did manage to get a couple of pictures that Mommy and Daddy thought were cute. I don't really care a whole lot but they seem happy. Here's one they like a lot:

I am pretty cute, aren't I?