my latest accomplishments

As you may have noticed, I haven't gotten around to saying hello to you here for awhile. That's because I'm MOBILE! That's right. I don't have time to be sitting at a desk typing anymore. I can Move, baby! I turned 8 months old on January 5th and decided it was time to crawl. And kneel. And pull myself up to see a whole new level of the world. I never understood why my parents were always up so high but I am beginning to see why. There are a lot of goodies at this new level...books on tables, medicine in cabinets, clothes in drawers. Why have they been hiding all of this stuff from me?

Here I am crawling (tilt your head 'cuz I can't figure out how to tilt the video).

So, I accomplished one of my resolutions and I am working on the others. Soon I'll share some of my adventures with food, but be warned, they are graphic.

holiday highlights

Some highlights from our trip to Colorado:


I got to meet the famous Deefor, a well-known blogging dog. (After I read his blog for the first time I knew that if a dog could blog, so could I!)



And his sidekick, Arrow.


I hung out in the lodge of Copper Mountain with my grandma and grandpa so my parents could go enjoy some snow sports. Here I am with my dad and grandpa Larry at the end of the day. Our hat-styles were in-sync, and we didn't even plan that!



Santa was also wandering around the slopes with one of his reindeer. I got him to stop and take a photo with us. The best part was I didn't even have to get out of my stroller and it was free. I have heard from other kids that sitting on that guys lap can be quite traumatic for some of us. Personally, Santa wasn't the problem, I was more worried that his reindeer might take a bite out of me (so, as you can see, I kept an eye on him).


My grandma Madeleine got me my own fire truck. I love it! Here I am taking a spin on 'er and doing a little fire truck maintenance on the wheel well. Thank you Grandma!








































I also got to see my grandpa Joe and meet more of his side of the family.



I went to the Denver Art Museum (DAM, it was fun!). Surprisingly, they had a lot of things for a guy like me to slobber on.




















This is an area just for kids to build things with blocks and get to know Carlos the turtle.



On our last day in Denver, I saw my Uncle Justin again. We went to a diner for lunch (well, actually they lunched and I watched from my car seat in my marshmallow suit).





























After that we dropped Justin off at work and headed to the airport. Back to Seattle! No snow, just rain. No sun, just daylight. But it's home, and it was good to be back nevertheless.

happy new year!

Hello! We made it back from our trip to Colorado last week and I will soon share with you our adventure. But I wanted to check-in with you as the New Year is upon us and tell you my resolutions. Hopefully, they will inspire you to be all you want to be this year too!

1. Get more food in my mouth rather than around it! This sounds simple enough but somehow much of it escapes me.


2. To grow a mustache and goatee. A friend of my mom's said he hoped this would change his year. Maybe it will help mine too!


3. To Crawl.

4. To ride bareback.


What do you hope to accomplish in 2008?