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A recap of my autumn in Virginia

Happy Halloween! Here I am dressed up as a little scarecrow, ready for trick or treating

Cookies! Yum!

Painting pumpkins with Mommy and Grammom

Can you guess which ones I did?

Playing in the leaves is awesome!

Today I'm taking a nap outside on a blanket in the shade of the trees after having lunch with Mommy at work.

2 shots, yuck! 1 ice cream cone, yum!

Saw more big statues today in DC. Next stop is Gettysburg on Wednesday.

It took me a week, but I finally mastered my Bert & Ernie 24 piece jigsaw puzzle.

I counted to 19 all by myself.

Yay! Josh set up my monkey pool today. He's good to have around.

When in Rome

I refer to myself as Bubba these days. My mom thinks it sounds a bit redneck, but she's the one that moved me to Virginia. What did she expect?

Out West, my trip to California: part 3

Playground Fun

Out West, my trip to California: part 2

Big Fish!

Big Flowers!


My friend Jiggy!

My Mommy!

Out West, my trip to California: part 1

That's me on my first airplane trip ever.

Yup, I know I'm scared of bugs, but Aunt Rox convinced me to hold a rolli polli

Hanging out with my friends Nathaniel & Olivia

Oh, and Andrew too.

Blowing bubbles!

Through the grapevine

I've heard some rumors about a big boys bed.

I'm on a roll

Next, Aunt Stephanie & Becca came to visit. I miss my Beb Beb, she was so much fun to play with. You won't see Aunt Stephanie in any of my pictures, she is very good at avoiding the camera.

Becca's real good at snuggling up.

My arm may be broken, but my cast is pretty cool. Have you signed it yet?

Playing dress up, the monkey ...

and the kitty.

That's me, running around at my Mommy's work

Still me

Soon after Easter I had a visit from Uncle Darrell, Aunt Leanne, Natalie and Natalie (yes, I know she's Samantha, but I can't say that so I just call both my cousins Natalie.) Visiting was lots of fun, except for maybe the trip to the emergency room when I broke my arm.

Here's the real Natalie playing with her Daddy.

Aunt Leanne pulling double duty on the swings.

Whee, rocking with Samatha

Hold still, I've almost got it!

Hi, remember me?

Did I forget to tell you that the Easter Bunny came? Well, he did. I never saw him or anything, but he filled my basket with a lot of cool stuff. Thank De Easter Bunny!


At first glance, I was most excited about the banana.

But then I saw Ernie!

Which was almost as cool as my brand new Sesame Street toothbrush!

Birthday Videos

Do you know how old I am? I do!




Happy Birthday to Me

I'm ready for my massage Mommy!

It didn't take me long to know a good thing when I see it. I love getting massages!

Revolving Door

It's been a busy couple of weeks here at my house. We've had a lot of people parading through. First I got to visit with my friend Nik again and this time she brought a guy named Josh with her. He read to me in funny voices and sang along with my Sesame Streets songs so he's okay in my book. Then Aunt Stephanie brought Becca, Josh and Zach to visit. I had a lot of fun playing with Becca and giving Aunt Stephanie dirty looks when she got too close to me. Now Me Me (Grammy) and Poppy are here, but they leave tomorrow so the house is going to be quiet again.

A lot has been going on with me lately too. I'm learning new words everyday and have started to combine them into mini sentences. I've been practicing using the potty too. Its not the easiest thing, but I'll get the hang of it one of these days.

Getting to be a a big boy

I finally figured out what the toilet thing in the bathroom is for. After my bath, I'm learning to pee in the potty!

Want to read with me?

I love books! I love them so much that I can sit and read them one after another after another after another. If only my Mommy or my Grammy had that kind of stamina. They read to me a lot, but its never enough. Our record is 22 books straight. I think we could beat it, but no one is willing to try.

Because I love books so much, I'm starting to grow to love letters too. I can say, recognize and locate my favorite letters "P", "D", "O", "I", "B", "G", "Q", "U", "V", "Z" and sometimes "Y". I still call W, "Waa" like the Burt and Ernie song, and H, "Haa", but I know what they are even though I'm still working on saying them right. I like my alphabet so much that I like to skip ahead and tell Mommy what comes next when we're saying our letters. Did you know that Q comes after P? I do. Mommy likes that one best because it come out "coup" when I say it and she thinks it cute. I like B best cause it starts words like bus.

Crime & Punishment

What Mommy doesn't understand is that I like my Time Out Chair. I know that if I throw the basket of onions on the floor and don't clean them up, she's going to send me to time out. So I do it over and over and over again. I like my chair. It's a monkey chair. Sometimes I don't even wait for Mommy to send me there. I throw the onions on the floor, kick them around a bit and run to sit in my chair in the corner all the while smiling. Its the smile that frustrates Mommy most so I'm careful to never forget to add that in at the end.

Bye Bye Cocoa

Did you know "Cocoa" was one of the first words I could say? I know you liked to steal my bath toys and chew them up, but that never bothered me much, just Mommy. I'll always remember how you let me pile stuff on your back and pull your tail and ears and you never once got mad. And how Pop Pop let me help feed you your treats and how you use to eat all the bites of my dinner that I'd toss on the floor for you. You were one of my best pals, I'll miss you Cocoa.

Alphabet

I'm 22 months old today

My new favorite toys are my Sesame Street Knex. I've got a bunch of them now. I love to build towers and mix up all the pieces of the heads and put them back together again my own way. Like with Bert's face on Elmo's head with a little bit of Cookie Monster mixed in just for fun. You can build all sorts of fun stuff. Today, Grammom made me a bee and whenever I see it, I like to say "bzzzzz". Mommy also made me a flower the other day and I like to stick my nose real close and go "sniff, sniff". But I can't say "sniff, sniff" so I just curl up my nose and smell it just like a real flower.

Adjustments

I've been spending a lot of time with my Grammom lately while Mommy is off at school. I miss Mommy, but she's always home when I wake up the next morning so its not so bad. Besides, she doesn't need to go back to school until Monday now so I have her for the next 4 days!

I've adjusted to my new home finally and am going to bed without a peep these days. Mommy and Grammom deserve the break so I figured its the least I could do.

I can moo, can you?

Do you know what Awesome is? Awesome is looking out your front window and seeing COWS! I like cows. MOO!

Catching up

I haven't been around lately, but to fill you in ....

I moved to my new house in Virginia and I suppose its alright. It would be a whole lot better if I didn't get this darn cold and cough just after arriving. Oh, and the worst part is that I have my own room now. I miss sharing with my Mommy and I make sure she knows it by screaming my complaints at the top of my lungs for as long as I can when she tries to put me to bed. I suppose I'll get used to it eventually, but for now I think I'll continue to give her a hard time. I've got a big yard now, which is nice, but I've been too sick to take advantage of it and the mild weather.

I miss Pop Pop and my Poppy and my Grammy a whole lot too. No one mentioned that I was going to have to leave them behind. Pop Pop will be here soon enough though so at least I've got that to look forward to. And Mommy says we'll be visiting with my big cousins Natalie and Samantha in a couple of weeks, which should be lots of fun! They're real close now so I guess this new home thing has its advantages.

I better be off to bed and exercise my lungs a bit. Goodnight!