She WALKS she WALKS!

We'll not completely, but walking moreso than she ever has before!!!! Check it out. I sound totally crazed in the video's (I was a little excited) so don't mind the screeching hyena. The first video gets better at the end (around 25 seconds.)

Daddy Blogging: Cooking with Daddy

Mommy came home for a bit today between work assignments that she had to do. While Mommy was getting things ready for her open house tonight at the center, Daddy kept me occupied by baking. Here is a video of me helping Daddy bake cookies.

Daddy Blogging: When Mom is away...

Mommy is at work today, so her duty to record my thoughts and put them on the blog falls onto Daddy today. Hopefully he will do a decent job, or I will have to fire him.

We can't go outside and play today like we wanted to because it is raining outside. I really like to look at the rain and listen to it fall on the house, but I don't like to play in it. Daddy wouldn't let me do that anyway. So I've been spending the last 30 minutes looking out of the patio window and the rain on the deck and trying to figure out how to open the screen door.

The crappy car is back in the shop again today. Mommy tried to drive it to work, but one of the tires was low on air. She filled the tire, but air started flowing out of the valve stem. Daddy packed me up and we went out to help her. Unfortunately, when Daddy was trying to put the spare tire on, one of the lug nuts rounded off and couldn't be removed. Daddy also cut his hand open while trying to change it. So we had to call a tow truck to take the car somewhere. They are going to remove the bad lug nut and replace both back tires.

Daddy says that it is time for my nap now. I have to go. Maybe I'll have more to say if anything interesting happens in the afternoon.

Teddy Bear Band

Tonight we went to see the teddy bear band at the ECFE open house (at the center that Mommy doesn't work at, her open house is tomorrow night.) It was a lot of fun. I really liked the music and all that practice dancing that Mommy and I did today really paid off. Check out this video of me dancing/swaying and singing along.

13 months!

I'm officially 13 months old now. Mommy stopped taking the weekly pictures after 52 weeks, but she didn't say anything about stopping the monthly pictures. Daddy also thought Mommy was done with the professional photography until I turned 2 (silly Daddy, I'm going to change so much in the next months too!) Mommy and I are super excited to have her friend Jessica from JM Photography scheduled to *fianlly* take our pictures. Mommy has wanted her to photograph us for a long time, so she's excited for October to get here. Now it's time to go shopping for outfits!!!

"Tooth Tooth" and other tales

Mommy says I'm getting my two front teeth (finally!) and that explains why I was up all night screaming and not sleeping. She got so desperate for me to sleep that she broke down and let me come and snuggle with her and daddy for an hour in their bed. Unfortunately, after I calmed back down, I was deported back to my own room and crib.

Mommy is very tired today and isn't feeling the greatest. I didn't feel very good today either. My nose is kinda runny and I've been sneezing a bit. Mommy said the pollen forecast was very high this weekend and I could have some allergies.

Here's a picture from bathtime tonight. It had to be a warm full bath to wash the ice cream off of me. Mommy and Daddy rode their bikes (and me in my trailer) to Culvers for a treat tonight. I wore most of my treat. :)

Mommy may be crazy!

Mommy has a friend who has a friend who used to work at Gymboree (our favorite store for my clothes, incase you didn't know.)  To make a long story short, I recently came into a bunch of super cute gymbo clothes ranging in my almost current size (12-18 mos) all the way up to 3T.  Mommy was pretty darn excited about the good deals she got (considering a full price sweater there can sometimes be up to $40 and Mommy got me about 15 new outfits and a few random pieces for about that price.)

So anyway, we were in my room today and Mommy was organizing it into my drawers by size and season when she decided she needed to try a few things on me to make sure they're true to size.  In that process, she decided to try on the great snowsuit I got from Aunt Heather.  They live where it's pretty warm all year long so they only needed it when they were traveling.  What a sweet treat for me.  It's super cute marshmellowy pink from The Children's Place.  Here I am....in it.  It's still pretty big on me so Mom squished up the arms and legs so I could climb around.

"I've escaped!"

Waseca Waterpark part deux

That title isn't exactly correct. This is my second blog posting about the Waseca Waterpark, however I've been there 4 times now including today. However, today was my first time there with daddy. We had such a good time. It was a little bit different than the Friday mornings we usually go because they only allow Adults and Children under 7 then. Today was a regular admission day. They had the big water slides on too. I think Mommy was more excited about going down the water slides and the diving boards than the rest of it. Mommy loves the water. Here are some pictures of us today.

My first Etsy purchase

My very first Etsy purchase came today. For those of you not in the know, etsy is a website similar to a craft or flea market. All the stuff is handmade (by different sellers around the world) and pretty cool. I purchased these towel bibs and was happy to discover their arrival in our mailbox today. I was super impressed with the presentation. I buy a ton of stuff on ebay where if just comes thrown in an envelope or box, so I was pleasantly surprised to see them wrapped so nicely (she even included a coupon for a future purchase..score!)

"Mmmmm, tastes like chicken."

So far, we're very pleased with the bibs. The best part is that Lauren can't get these off by just yanking on them (a common problem with the beanitude.) They're in the wash right now for the first time, so hopefully that wash up as well as they wear. Check out Diana's Darnings on Etsy.com.

Bathtime with beanitude

I got a new bathtub today. Mommy says she's not ready for me to be in the big tub all by myself yet. I like the new tub. It's much bigger than my last one and has fun things for me to look at printed on it. My favorite thing to do in the bathtub is SPLASH of course!


Tonight we went out for dinner with The Good's to the OG. It was delicious. I like pasta!