Eating, bathing, rolling.

Hello! I just have learned the coolest thing. If you roll over, then roll over again, then reorient your body just a little, then roll and roll, you can get someplace. I can roll almost anywhere. Mom and dad are getting these worried looks on their faces, especially when they say the word "crawl." Ooh we're going to have some fun.

The other coolest thing I've learned is EATING. Everyone gathered around like it was a huge deal. No problem. Down the hatch, I say. Pile it on. I've mastered rice cereal and peas, so I think I'm ready for a super jumbo burrito.

I'm big into baths. I've now taken baths with both mom and dad. That's fun too.

Mark, Nancy and Matthew Kohls came to see me. Nancy's a pro, clearly a master at boys like me. My aunts Emily and Sarah (another master) came to visit as well, and we had a big pizza party at the house. Of course I give everybody a chance to hold me. The trick is for me to keep moving, so I give them a minute then move on.

That's it for now. I'm posting a bunch of new photos in my photo album, so follow the link at the right.

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Helping

Yesterday I helped mom in the garden for the first time. I supervised while she started weeding the front. She's got a ways to go. Then dad needed some help on the east path along the house. He had to rework it a little since he didn't get it quite right the first time. They really need a LOT of supervision.

In the meantime I'm growing out of clothes. And teething.

Voodoo Child?

I had a huge day on Saturday. I was sleeping happily after my morning meal and woke up in a completely new place with completely new people. It was way cool. Mom and dad are great and everything, but a kid's gotta expand his social network these days. Apparently mom had a continuing education course she had to do without me and dad just "had" to sail on Voodoo Child. So, my buddies PJ, Austin and Bryce took care of me instead. It was great! I even got to visit mom at noon to tell her everything was going well.

Mom and dad were so proud of me for being cool with hit. Hey, I AM cool. Ain't no big deal.

Since PJ is in charge of the Voodoo crew, does that make me a Voodoo Child?

See ya.

The HOUSE

A lot has happened since my last post. I've been really busy making sure that Mom and Dad don't forget about me when they're busy.

So, after a lot of late nights the Green Lake House was done, or at least somewhat liveable. So we now live there. I like it a lot. I have my own room here, though they don't let me sleep in it yet. And it's a whole lot quieter than the old place. I do miss the sirens on 85th, however. For some reason, even though this is a bigger place, it looks like it's going to be too much stuff.

I put some photos on my web site (use link at right). You'll get the idea.

Everybody is welcome to come say hi to me any time! The phone is the same as the old place (206) 528-8135, and Mom has even let Dad put the message on the answering program, so it's his land line too now!

Talons

Mom says I've got talons. Not talent, talons. Just 'cause I've scratched my face a couple of times. So, I'm stuck wearing mittens. Hey, they're not even mittens, but socks. How embarrassing.

Wow, those are DOGS

I don't know how it happened, but all of a sudden I could tell that yellow and that gray shape were both dogs. Kinda like people except more hair and longer noses. I also learned that they would like to share my jungle gym.

Learning to laugh

I had my first big laugh today. Cami was "swimming" through my jungle gym arches and lo and behold it was hilarious. So far, nothing mom or dad do is all that funny, though they seem to enjoy laughing at each other.