What a grind.

Today Alexis played in the yard for a while on her Pooh toy, pushing Pooh ALL over the yard. Also, she learned to grind her teeth and sort of count to 3! She may be grinding her teeth in this picture:


As for counting to 3, we hold her just above her froggie beanbag and drop her onto it after saying 1-2-3. So today she started saying "Doo" and "Dee" instead of 2 and 3. One time it even sounded like she said "un" to start it off. Later, she decided she didn't need us so she just stands in front of her beanbag and yells "Doo" and "Dee" and throws herself face-first into the beanbag, laughing. Yay, Lex!

We had a VERY busy day. We got up early (Alexis' choice, of course), and so we went to Home Depot and Walgreen's to get some stuff for the house. Then we came home and Lex slept while I worked on house projects. (Lisa had to work today. Yuck.) Then we hung out and played with Nana, Lex took a nap, we went to lunch, visited Lisa's work, did the recycling, Lex took another nap, played more, ate dinner, played more, bath, played more, and off to bed. No wonder she's tired!

Tantrum, anyone?

So, the other day, I got really mad. I mean REALLY super-dupery mad, because I wasn't allowed to do any of the following:

• Hit Aunt Tricia
• Bite Aunt Lisa
• Pull Joe's tail
• Stick my finger in a light socket
• Climb up the stairs so I could fall down them
• Play in traffic
• Juggle knives

Basically, if you get the picture, I was not being allowed to do ANYTHING except be loved, cuddled and adored, sleep, eat and play with my 4,362 toys. Whew, these people are hateful to me sometimes. Anyway, I got so mad I cried and screamed. Here's what it looked like, for those of you who missed it:




Anyway, Nana's here today, YAY! I went to school and we had "Water Day," so we got to play in the sprinkler. Aunt Tricia worked half-day and then I went home and played and stuff and Aunt Lisa took us out to dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory. We went to the riverfront and I touched the Mississippi River for the first time. Silly Aunt Tricia forgot her camera, but Nana took some shots on her regular camera so when they're developed I'll try to post one.

Oooh, guess what?!?

Guess what? Lots of exciting stuff today. Last night I got a present for Daddy (but I'm going to start using it now). We got a bicycle kid carrier for me to ride in and a little helmet. I'm supposed to get my first ride this weekend, so I'll make sure Aunt Tricia takes a picture.

Also, I might get to see Mommy in Florida in July or August...cross your fingers!

Finally, my Nana is coming to visit this weekend, and we get to pick her up at the airport tomorrow night! Yay!

And by the way, here are the pictures from swimming last Saturday!

BABY!

Today Aunt Tricia got me a stroller to push my baby around in. It's very exciting and sometimes I have to stop and smack the baby, or pull her out by her neck, but hey, she totally deserved it! Aunt Tricia keeps making cracks about Joan Crawford and calling me "Mommie Dearest," but I have no idea what she's talking about. As usual. Peace out! Gotta walk the baby.

It's Eva's birthday, and I'll drink to that!

Today is Eva's birthday, so I'm throwing back a couple and reminiscing over our weekend party.
Happy 2nd Birthday, Eva B! (And don't worry, Mommy and Daddy, there was no beer in the bottle. At least, not when I got done with it, ha-ha!)

Parade and more swimming!

Today, we went to Jeff's house and then walked up to the Pride Fest and parade with Stacey, Carlos and Eva, and Jeff, Mike and Josh. (Well, they tell me we walked. I fell asleep in the car, slept as I was put in my stroller, slept all on the long walk, slept the whole time we stopped in the coffee shop, slept the rest of the walk, and FINALLY woke up as the fire engine went by to start the parade.) There were lots of fun floats and music and drag queens and even gay Republicans, so now I've truly seen it all. We got some parade throws, including beads (amateurs, these people are. Aunt Lisa and Aunt Tricia have thrown away more beads than this whole parade even had to start with.) Anyway, I got the best beads, with a tiny bottle of Jagermeister strung from them. They're cool, but I know they were left over from Mardi Gras, you cheapskates!

Anyway, we had a good time, and then came home and Eva and I went swimming in my pool. Here are lots of pictures of our day...in some of them, I look really sweaty. It was a hot day, but don't worry, I had on lots of sunscreen and the water was from Aunt Tricia & Aunt Lisa squirting me with water, which I love.

Fun at the Museum.

Here's me with Eva and Hannah today at the City Museum. We had lots of fun and took lots of pictures, so I'll keep posting the best ones for the next few days!

By the way, for those of you keeping score, I'm 13 months old TODAY! I am getting much better at walking, with improved balance, but I'm still not really interested in doing it unless I get lots of encouragement before and praise afterward. I have begun to realize, though, that if I walk instead of crawl, my hands will be free to grab at lots more stuff, so I think I'll keep working on it. Also, I now have 8 teeth...the two bottom teeth on either side of the middle are just poking through, so I've been a bit cranky and drooly and feverish but all in all I'm doing ok. I can now say Mama, Dada, cracker, more, baby, Joe, juice, Stacey, yeah, bye-bye, Burt (which is short for "Burt's Bees," the fun lip balm I like to have put on me), and something that sort of sounds like Tricia. Sort of. Now, keep in mind, not all of these words are perfectly clear, (for example, Burt, baby and bye-bye sound similar), but if I said it to you, you'd definitely know what I mean and be able to tell them apart, so I'm counting them as words.

I went swimming on Thursday and I'm going again tomorrow, so I'll get some pictures of that, too. I LOVE swimming! Well, Aunt Tricia's filling in tomorrow, so I'll catch you on Sunday!

Nap time.

I got up at a little before 7, ate breakfast and played so hard, I was ready for a little nap by 8:30. My baby didn't want to sleep (truth be told, her eyes don't EVER seem to close. Creepy!), but she stayed right beside me until I woke up.

What can I say?

Whew, they finally let me out of this box! Just kidding, my secretary (Aunt Tricia) has been away for a few days and, well, to be honest, sometimes I don't feel like typing and I just dictate the blog posts to her. With her in North Dakota, it put a real cramp in my style.

I'm back, though, so I'll try to make up for my absence.

Happy Father's Day, Daddy!

Happy Father's Day, Daddy! I love you!

I hope you got your card in the mail but if not, it will get there soon!