All in a Week's Work

Hello everyone and welcome to another installment of Memoirs of a Baby. I'm happy to report that the week started out well with MORE real food. Here I am enjoying green beans. They're so yummy and I'd really fill up on them if I could just improve my aim and not drop half of them on the floor. Other real foods I tried this week: graham crackers (yeah!), Spanish rice (nay), Mexican fried ice cream (yeah!), Shephard's pie (nay), and pickles (yeah!).

Here's Dad and I up to our shenanigans again. I was goofin' with him in The Chair and totally did a face-first slide down to the floor. Thank goodness for that pile of blanket at the bottom.

Ah yes, more Kitchen Mayhem and Merriment. But the darndest thing happened this week. I can't get the cupboards open anymore! The only one that will open for me is my girl Lazy Susan. Not so lazy NOW is she?!?! I'd say the others are the lazy ones these days. I wonder if my mom and dad had anything to do with it...

Never too early to start and exercise regimen. Here I am working my deltoids and lats with some chin-ups...

Ball Popping Mania is the name of the game here. I got this toy for Christmas from my Greataunt Deb, Greatuncle John, and cousins Lindsey and Derek. I think it's great. The jury is still out for Mom and Dad. See, I like to stick my hands in there when the balls are popping and that totally throws off the rhythm of the machine so that balls then fly all over the living room. Funny, right? That's what I thought! Can you convince my parents? For some reason they don't find crawling all over the living room floor retrieving balls amusing.

This stuff is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S! My big girl bathseat disappeared and now I get to bathe Super Big Girl style--NO BATH SEAT YO!! It was great. Mom was chillin' on the bathroom floor, reading a little while I played. But things got a big hairy when I discovered that I could STAND UP in there! Sa-weet!!! I tried to turn on the water but that didn't work. Then I turned to the back end of the tub where I pulled down a towel bar and almost pulled down the big poley-basket thing that holds all the bottles. It was all good but for some reason Mom had this look of shear panic in her eyes. I can't wait until my next Super Big Girl bath!!

Saturday was a very busy day for me. I went to Grandpa Bob and Grandma Jan's in the afternoon while Mommy went to lunch with her friends from grad school and Daddy stayed home to do some work. I did lots of playing at Grandpa and Grandma's.

Then I went to Major's with G & G, where we met Mommy, Daddy, Aunt Jenni, Uncle John, Megan, Nate, Christopher, and Angela for dinner. (Christopher is Mommy's cousin and Angela is his wife.) Here's a picture of my auntie and me wearing a special bib I picked out just for her...

After dinner we all went to Megan's hockey game. She plays for Inver Grove Heights on the U10C team. Here's Megan all geared up. Someday I'll get to play hockey too, just like Megan and Nate!

Here we are, Mommy, me, Daddy, Chris and Angela. Chris and Angela are from Iowa, so I guess that means they don't know much about hockey. Now that they live in Minnesota I guess our family has taken it upon themselves to teach Chris and Angela about hockey. Mommy isn't any help though, she doesn't know much herself. That's Daddy and Uncle John's department.

Wow, it's been a busy week!!! I better go rest up now. Mommy is off work tomorrow so she's dragging--err I mean, taking me to the doctor and to the photographer. Time to take care of those 9 month things. Oh yeah, forgot to mention that--I'm 9 months old now!! And Mommy had a birthday last week but she's not real into talking about it. I heard her grumbling something about "31 is no fun...officially in my 30s....I want 30 back...blah blah whine whine whine...." I tuned her out.

For real, I better get going. Love, hugs and sloppy kissed to all!

Taylor Baby Girl