A month with lots of cousin TIME!

Been a pretty good summer. This is my mom's last week home with me. I've become extremely attached to her and since last week, really prefer her over most others. Oh well...all good things must come to an end and I'm back with my boys at Betsy's on Thursday, bigger and better and ready to HANG! They aren't going to believe how fast I can run!

Sarah Jane is 2 and she is kind enough to share most things with me, including blowing out her birthday candles. She and I played outside with my dad a lot that day, she is a good buddy. THEN, just a few days later we all went swimming at "Michael Jackson's Cincinnati Estate"....or somewhere like that. It was the coolest pool we had ever seen and Tom and I played in the sprinklers on the side of the pool. My mom and I went down the water slide and Uncle Patrick helped me at the end. It was really big and Aunt Emmy was very afraid--but NOT ME! I also went to the zoo with those guys, my cousin Tom knows everything--I have never been on a merry-go-around before and he showed me just what to do!

It's been a rough month too. My dad didn't see my little fingers and we had to make a trip to the Emergency Room. We all wore heavy gowns and they took pictures of my little fingers, but everthing was fine. Just swollen and different colors. My Dad and I both screamed a lot! He's been a lot more careful around our doors since....

Yesterday my Nana and Papaw and Gigi came over for lunch and we did lots of playing. I have a new roller coaster in my backyard so I had to show them how fast it is. Hopefully my cousin Freeman will be here soon so I can show him how it works. It's been pretty nice outside, so I'm out there A LOT! Gotta get some lunch....

I hear someone coming....who is it? Ahhhh my favorite - DAD!

PLEEEEZZZZ let me help Dad!

I'm not sure who likes the shotgun more...

I love the beach!

This has been the best summer of my life! :) I have always loved being outside and loved water but now I get to do both things almost every single day. We went back to the beach and it was right outside our window, I got to run lots! Then we visited one of Mom's friends in Ft. Myers and even tho' dad did all the fishing, I got to shoot at the glass door on the porch with a shotgun, Mama was really not to happy about it! The plastic things stuck to the window and it was really funny to pull them off. I still have all my old favorite things to do, play lacrosse, read and sing, but now I can run really fast. But still my dad won't let me play with his toys. I know how to blow the sidewalk and I know I can push that mower, but he never lets me....I practice all the time in the garage and he just won't start it up for real! He's even my favorite right now.....poor mama. She takes me swimming and shows me the deer in our backyard and takes me to the playground, but Dad is the heart I need to win over, I want to MOW!!!

My 1st year picture

I keep forgetting to put my 1 year picture up. Well my mama does....and look at these clothes, you won't catch me wearing jeans now, I'm a shorts and swim trunks kind of guy these days. I spend most afternoons at the pool and I am loving it. This week I was also able to play in the Elmo spray toy in my backyard with Sarah Jane. We gobbled down a lot of blueberries running around Mr. Elmo. My dad says I have a similar gene w/my cousin Tom because we both have a love of the vacuum. But today my parents were laughing at me as I took off the attachment and with my motor mouth blew all around my room. I've seen my dad use his blower a lot and this week some guys took down a tree in my backyard. I almost peed my pants watching them blow all the stuff around....then they used a chipper and my mom thought for sure I was going through the window. It might have been the best day of my life! She took lots of pictures of me that day...you can expect those at some point but we are kind of busy to be using the computer these days, there's not time to sit around. I have showed her how I can open the front door, I can open the pantry door, I can open the stove and the dishwasher and today I climbed up my dad's ladder, all by myself. Even though that Dr. told me today I'm only 31% in height I can pretty much "do whatever I want". Looking forward to a big weekend....see ya later.

June

My mama is finished with school and we are doing lots of great stuff. I love my new backyard and I can get into lots of stuff back there. I'm fired up when I get up in the morning....well I'm always fired up and ready to play at any time. We celebrated Grandma's bday and I sat at the kids table for the first time, no one thought I could do it, but Gramma did and she was right--I'm a big boy too! It's basically a kids' buffet.

.....I also love water, I have to take a break once in awhile. We have an Elmo in our backyard who gets me REAL wet. Mama and Dada have taken me to the pool almost every day. I paint the concrete and go underwater and walk the steps in and out of the big pool. I also had to go to Cincinnati Children's this week. My mama's friend Julie let me play in this colorful area while Mama checked me in. Mama doesn't let me stand on tables but Jules did, she said it wasn't really a table. After I cried, a lot, because they pricked my arms, we went to the zoo. It was a blast and I can't wait to go back. I'm really into trains and basketball nets right now, and at the zoo I get to ride the train every time. But the lady who bruised my arms, said no more eggs for awhile. Too bad b/c my dad makes a mean omelette.....