Got milk?

*Gulp-gulp-gulp-gulp*

*Aaaaah* ...need I say more?

...so I know that this picture doesn't look very dramatic...

But here is a close-up! Yep, that looks just a little more dramatic... on January 4th I got to take my very first trip to the ER! I was climbing, and fell off of the chair, and landed on the leg of my high chair with my mouth. My lip split open two ways, leaving a nice little right-angled V that bled like a stuck pig. Because it wasn't just a bite, but an actual split lip, my Momma and Dad took me to the ER, just in case I needed stitches. Because of how deep the split was, they would have liked to do something, but because it was on my lip, they had to let it heal on its own rather than sewing or glue-ing or stapling it. I had a fat lip for a few days, and will probably have a scar, but hey! I'm a boy! Scars are cool!

And as you can see, a split lip certainly didn't keep me from eating! Hmmmmmm... nothing like feeding myself "noo-noos" with "mee" (noodles with meat sauce)


Happy New Year 2008, everyone!!!

Veggies vs Chocolate...!

A few days ago, we went to a cafe in Heidelberg with some friends. They had a bunch of different kinds of chocolate that looked soooooooo good! What the heck are my Momma and Dad thinking, not giving me sweeties until I'm 2? Can't you see how delicious they are?

.......want...... hmmmmmmmm......

Instead, I get to eat zucchini, and salad, and carrots, and meat and noodles... you know, all those things that will make me big and healthy and strong. Ok, ok, and as you can tell, I like those, too... but not as much as I liked that cookie that I stuffed in my mouth faster than lightening when my Dad was offering me a tiny nibble!

Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope you all had a good one. I sure did!
A few days before Christmas, we decorated a very poky tree! It is sooooooo beautiful... too bad it pokes my hand every time I try to touch it. Big mean tree.
On Christmas eve, my Momma cooked us a really good steak meal, and then my Momma and Dad played with me, and told me the Christmas story.

Look at all those gifts! Most of them are mine. Of course.
Look what my Dad gave me!

It's a wooden sword! You use these to make loud noises by hitting the couch, and you can poke the kitty with it. Oh yeah. And don't forget fishing for things on top of the shelf!
So I unpacked, and unpacked and unpacked. It was fun! Thank you to everyone who gave me loot!
After unpacking gifts, I had fun playing with my new toys. My Momma and I built two really tall towers with the additional mega blocks I got.

And I had fun playing with the little race track. Hmm. This car doesn't fit.
Just to make sure my older toys didn't get jealous, I played with them, too...

Merry Christmas to all of you!

Got my drivers license...

Yeah! I did! At least I think I did... a guy in a booth gave it to me, and then I drove around and around in a car. Another guy took my license away from me, though, so then I had to get out of the car. I was not happy about that. Not happy at all.

Well, it sure is fun to be a fireman! I get to clank this big bell, and drive around and around!


My Momma is hiding behind the lamp from Dad. She was being pretty unsafe, standing on the OUTSIDE of my truck while I drove!

Well, now that I am well again, I am sure there will be more pictures of me.... right Momma and Dad?

I'm a Bronchitosaurus! Grrrr!

Sorry that there aren't more pictures, and that there hasn't been a post for so long! My Momma had a class all last week (just one more to go!)and I've been sick since Friday. It started as a regular cough, but then I had a fever this weekend, and my cough got worse and worse. The doctor said today that I am a dinosaur. Yeah. She said I am a Bronchitosaurus. Or something like that. Being a dinosaur is no fun. They make you swallow icky pink antibiotics. I do like my cool inhaler, though. By the way, my kind of dinosaur weighs 30lbs (13.6 kg) and is 35 inches tall (88.5 cm).



Well, I am sick and whiny, but I can still cheese for the camera! More later, when I am well again!

I'm a Piranha!

...or am I a crocodile? Or a shark? Whatever I am, I have lots and lots of teeth! I just got my canines, so I have 16 (sixteen!) teeth now. Hooray for no more teething until I am 2!

Uhhh, yeah. SO my Momma didn't take any pictures of me last week, so she decided to take some of me eating this morning. Great choice. I get to show off my teeth and how well I can eat with a fork.

Ok, so first you get the food to stick on the fork, by any means necessary.

Then you open your mouth really wide, so as to avoid poking yourself.

And when you are done chewing, you open your mouth wide to show your Momma and Dad that you have no more food left.

And then you smile a toothy crocodile smile to entice them to give you more food.

Ps: This is not a halo, the sun is just shining through my morning-fuzzy hair. Just in case you were wondering...

Bundled 'n' Padded...

Since the temperature has began to drop below freezing at night, my Momma got this crazy idea in her head to bundle me beyond practical movability when we go to the playground. I mean, seriously, I feel like the kid in "The Christmas Story"... not that I have seen that show. The point is, I could jump off a cliff with all this padding, and the only reason I couldn't get up again would be because I can barely move in all these clothes... sheesh.

Alright! I'm in my element! Dirt +sand +shovels +bucket +ball =FUN!

Never underestimate the fun of jumping off of a table every now and then when you get bored of digging in the sand.

What? Did someone say BORED of digging in the SAND? Crazy people, there is NO SUCH THING!

Yes, sir! Except for maybe taking a bath, or wrestling with my Dad or Momma, playing in the sand is one of my favorite things to do!

Eyes!!!

Hello everyone! Time for the weekly update!

If you are a wearer of spectacles, you had better watch out! I have discovered that it is really fun to wear "eyes" (as I call them)... and I WILL steal them and put them on if you leave them lying around... unfortunately I get my hand slapped if I attempt to take "eyes" off of the wearer... so I (usually) don't try it anymore...
My Momma got creative and made me some "eyes" of my very own...
...yeah... they lasted for about 5 minutes. If that.
Then my Dad had the brilliant idea to get out his Army BCGs... (ask my Momma what the acronym stands for!)...which I love!
Yep, these are fun to wear. Will you go on a date with me, baby?
Ooooooh, yeah. I am a goodlooking man.

Stacking blocks!

My Momma has been busy reading for her American Foreign Policy class... but she thought you might like to see a few pictures of me.

I have a new skill: stacking! I've been able to stack my mega blocks for a while, and could put two or three blocks on top of each other. But now I can build real towers! I love stacking. I stack wooden blocks, I stack boxes, I stack food, I stack my megablocks, or anything else I can get my hands on. Fun!

Ok, don't sneeze! This takes a lot of concentration!

Con-cen-trate.... CON-cen-trate!

Oh man, why did my Momma give me this weird shaped block? I've figured out the triangles, and the cylindric blocks... but this stupid bridge block always makes my tower fall.

Could somebody PLEASE tell my Momma to give me good old normal sensible blocks next time?

Phew! After all that sitting still and concentrating, it is time to wriggle around in my ball house! Yay!!!!

I'm Superman!

Hello again! It has been a while (again) since my Momma had time to make a new post. And to her shame, this is the only picture she has of me since the last blog!



Anyway, I thought you might all like to know that I have learned to jump. In addition to run run running around the apartment, and climbing on everything, now I hop and jump. Sometimes I try to jump and run at the same time. That makes me look drunk. My favorite thing to do right now is jumping on the couch. I hop a few times, and then plop down on my bottom. This makes me laugh and laugh. Well, on Monday, I threw a pillow on the ground, and then jumped full force, Superman-style, off the couch! I overshot the pillow by a good bodylength, and did a nice face plant... ouch... rugburn. I cried a little bit, and my Momma didn't know if she should laugh or comfort me. She decided to do both. Grrrrrrrr.
Aside from bouncing on the couch, I think it is very very fun to bounce on my Dad! He makes all sorts of funny noises when I try to jump on him.

Hmmmm. This morning I think I discovered that it is ME in the mirror. My Mom put my coat on, and I looked in the mirror, and while looking at the boy in the mirror, slowly and precisely touched my nose. Then I touched my eye, and opened my mouth and stuck out my touch. Then I put on my hat (crookedly) while watching myself in the mirror. Very intriguing. Before, I played peek-a-boo with the boy in the mirror, and giggled... but my Momma thinks I now might have discovered that it is ME!

Aside from that, there isn't much news. I add more words daily, I love eating cauliflower, and now I am asleep, so my Momma is going to go study.

Words words words!

Welcome, everyone! Please sit back and enjoy reading about my words!



So, because my Momma can't remember which words are old and which are new, she will make a complete list of all of my words, as of right now. I learned lots and lots of words while we were on vacation!

Food etc:
mmmmmmm! (food in general)
mmmmmm deee? (please feed me!)
na-na (banana)
bo'le (bottle of water)
sheee (cheese)
bvooo (spoon)
ab-wah (apple)
nana-mmmm (orange or mandarin)
all! (all done/ all gone)

Animals (also apply to toy animals):
oo-oo! (monkey)
dee! (kitty)
oww! (what a kitty says)
brrr! (bird)
nah! (sound a bird makes, starting with crows, now applied to all birds)
meh-eh-eh (goat or sheep)
mmmmmmh! (cow)
daw (dog)(+panting w/ tongue out, small dogs get a yipping sound)
hee-haw (donkey)
nee-hee-hee (horse)
eeek! (mouse)
sssss! (a very lispy snake)
duh! (duck)
hmm-hmm (owl... sometimes 'hoo-hoo')
dah! +waving of hand (fly or bee or any other insect)
(opening and closing mouth) (fishy)
(opening and closing hand like a puppet) (crocodile)
(making a jumping motion with the fist) (frog)

Toys:
ball!
bweee-bwee! (car)
bwee-yah! (sound a car makes)
weeee! (slide)
boo! (book)

Other:
Da! (Dad)
Mommma! (Mama)
Maw! (Mark)
ah-MAH! (Gramma)
deee? +opening and closing hand (can I have it please?)
dah-te! (thank-you!)
mine!
dat! (that)
dis! (this)
Hi!
Bye! (my current favorite)
ch-shhh! (snoring sound and closed eyes) (sleeping)
dooes/dews (shoes)
deee (keys)
(finger moving sideways on teeth) (toothbrush)
dee-dee (baby)
eye! (eye)
doh (phone)
oh-oh! (what you say if you drop something, or pass gas, or burp)
dow! (down, as in, it fell down)
owww! (ouch)
no! (no, I don't want that)
no-no! (I am not allowed to touch/have that)
ooooh! +clapping (music)
dat! dat! +pointing up in the air (airplane)
eeeeeh! +waving hand over it as if to get an icky smell away)(garbage)
eeeeh! +reaching up to my parents (i have a poopy diaper)
bye! (what you say when you flush the toilet)

I also can show you where my nose, my eyes, my ears, my mouth, and my belly button is. I play peek-a-boo, I give kisses (wet ones), I wave hi and bye, and I can show you where to put a hat if you ask me. I clap, I shake my head, and I do a funny little tap dance before going up or down stairs. Oh yeah. And I hop on people's backs if they are sleeping or pretending to sleep, and bounce up and down, yelling "hi!"... my Dad taught me that, to wake up my Momma...

Back from vacation...

Hello everyone!
Boy, we sure had a wonderful week at the Nordsee, in St. Peter-Ording... we relaxed a whole lot, played and walked on the beach, flew our kites, ate yummy food (lots of sea food!), and played board games with Aunty Jasmin and Uncle Timon, who were also there. I made sure that my Dad and Momma didn't get TOO much rest though, and woke up at 7 every morning, or earlier... I think my favorite outing was our morning at the local zoo. They mostly had farm animals, but had a few seals, and some really cool snakes. I liked the donkeys and the goats best. Anyway. Here are some pictures:

This is me having breakfast at home, right before we left... no idea what my Momma meant when she mumbled "How in the world did we have a cheery morning child?!"

Alright. I am ready to go to the beach. Got my wind breaker and my gummy boots! Lets go! Hurry up!

Ahhhh, finally. Look at my Momma's cool yellow boots! She wore those every time we went to the beach.

Oh yeah! Look at my cool penguin backpack! My Great Aunt Beth gave it to me. I love digging for toys inside it, and I will tell you that it is "Mine!" if you try to take it!

Hahahahahhhh! Dad stuck a cheerio onto my forehead! Let's see if he notices the soggy crumbs I hid behind his ears when I hugged him.... practical joke is on you, Dad!

Look at this! This stick actually goes on our kite, but it is GREAT for poking things/people with, and for waving around! My Dad spent the afternoon at the beach with me... I loved it!

My Momma is helping me fly the kite! See? I am holding onto the hand-spool all by myself... Ooooooooh! It is soooooo far up there!

This is at the zoo. My Dad and I are watching the seals. The seals weren't that interesting, and I don't have a word for them.

Look! It's a hee-haw! It's a hee-haw, Dad! Look, Momma, it's a hee-haw! These hee-haws sure are interesting!

And here I am petting a neee-hee-hee! This one was small, but it sure left a bruise on my Momma's leg when it kicked her...

Weeee! I got to swing on the big-kid swings! I love swinging, and say "weeee!"... which should never be confused with my word for cars, which is "bweee! bweee!" (the noise cars make, according to me, is "bweee-bweee-ya!")

This is the light-house we hiked to together. Along the way, we saw lots of sheep! I made sure to point each one out with a loud "meh-eh"...

I sure loved having my Momma AND my Dad around all week!

That's all for today... my Momma needs to make some food! As you see, I have lots of new words, so the next post will be a list of my words!