A TANTRUM at the park

People, it's official...I threw my first FIT at the park. I love it soo much that when it was time to go home for dinner, I went limp and start screaming no no no! Here is a picture of me on the slide. I'm fearless and will climb up and go down all of the slides. Do you see my double hat? For all of you reading this that live outside of MN, I'll just say "it's a Minnesota thing" On a serious note, whenever it's sunny outside and the sun is shining in my eyes, I yell at Mom "hat, Hat, HAT!" On this particular day, I was already wearing one stocking cap so I just doubled up. Thats what we boys do...

Here is my pimped ride home from daycare I get when it's nice outside. I get my blanket and my goldfish crackers treat for the long 45 minute power walk with my Mom. She's trying to kick a few lbs but hellllllllllo, maybe she should stop eating all of those jelly beans instead, maybe it would help her drop a few.

The Pizza, Beer & Sippy Cup Party

I'm spoiled. Spoiled rotten. I get a chance to hang out with soo many cool friends all of the time. Last Friday night, I had a party over at Fuzz's house. I know Mom said it was a chance to get out of the house so dad could tie flies and so I could see my friends, but I know that the truth was that she just wanted to have some cold Coors Lights with her girlfriends (my friend's Moms)

Here we are, from left to right: Keelin-6 months, Reese-10 months, Fuzz-3, Me-15 months. We're missing my main gal Jade from this picture because she was dancing in the other room (or something like that...)
Fuzz taught me how to jump on the couch.

Reese likes to be on top :) I think Keelin likes it...

I was trying to get a head start with Reese...smackin' on a younger woman.

Pizza time!!!!

We have busy plans coming up in the next few months! This weekend I think we'll be able to see Gumpa, Gma Becker and Zoester and Ellie. They'll be in the cities to see the Wizard of Oz at the Orpheum. Next weekend is Easter! What the heck is Easter about and the bunny? Who is he? Next weekend Ma and I are heading to Duluth to see Karis and throw rocks in Lake Superior and the weekend after Cami will be in town! Whew!

Weather has been great lately so I've made plenty of trips to the park already with Mom & Dadda. I am FEARLESS and will climb up to the highest point and go down the long slides. I giggle and you can see my big teeth every time...

More later!

A Man with a MISSION

Hey people.

I'm a man on a mission. I crawl on everything, I jump up and down like I'm on crazy pills and run around like I've had a liter of Mt. Dew. I don't sit still - EVER. Mom looked away last night for a SECOND and thought she'd take a picture of what I'm doing lately. Yes, and...when she caught me I was trying to crawl on the counter to get to the qtips.
Tomorrow night - pizza & popcorn party at Fuzz's house! Can't wait...

Sunshine Day.

What a great weekend - the weather was beautiful and best part of all, we stayed around here and chilled around the house. I even got my hair cut over at Great Clips today and now I look like a stud. Oh, yeah - I SCREAMED the entire time. I have no idea what that was about...even a blue sucker wouldn't chill me out. We also went on walks to the park, took long naps, made cheese fondue and ribeyes for dinner - my kinda weekend.


PICTURE BELOW: This is what I did most of the weekend. I sat on the stoop in the garage with my snacks (cheetos & pretzels) watching my Dad work in the garage. Mom thought I just looked so cute being a boy with my Twins hat so she snapped a quick photo.

One more thing I forgot to mention in the last post....most of the time, I act like a Monkey. The other night, Mom was making dinner and she looked over into the living room and I was standing on the coffee table yelling "ya ya ya ya mama ya ya mama" Oh, boy.


Have a great week!

It's a long post: 15 months old and rockin' and rollin'

Hey guys - next year, you better BRING ME ON YOUR VACATION!!!!!!!!

It started with a cancelled flight and lost luggage, but my parents had a FANTASTIC trip to Aruba for their vacation. They loved every minute on the island and can't wait to go back. A few pics below of their trip. Suprise, suprise, they did a lot of market shopping like the pic below and can you believe it? All they bought was a tshirt.

This was their daily view from the resort. Not bad! They reserved Palapa 95.

No, they didn't forget their SPF, just didn't quite have enough SPF's for the Arubian sun.

Silly close up.

One of the many date nights out for the trip - the food was WONDERFUL.

This is the drink that kept them cool...and relaxed.

Dad hiked about 3 miles up the shore to do some ladyfish fly fishing a couple of the mornings and he caught this shot along with his fish.

While Ma & Da were soaking up the sun in Aruba, Gma & Gpa California came to visit and we had a blast! Some pics attached from the 7 full days with them. I went to see Great Grandma Lucy & GGpa Roy (below is Gma Lucy)

I was showing off my new teeth to all of the people at the restaurant.

Here's me, Gma and Gpa. Thank you for coming to stay with me...you exhaust me but it was all worth it (even my ear infection)

We went to the MOA and I got to go on the carousel!

Pooped out after a long day.

Out to eat a lot - I LOVE drinking with straws now (or, just playing with them)

Lastly, this morning Mom had to work so Daddy took me to see Dr. Marybeth for my 15 month check-up appt. The verdict? We don't have exact digits because we accidently left the sheet at the office, but I'm about 75% in height and 25% in weight and have a normal size head. I have had a cold lately and found out that I also have another ear infection, so - more of that icky pink stuff. No more bottles for me, and poo - she said I only get my pacifier at night now, and she even said something to Dad about start talking about getting out of my crib??! Huh, I don't think so. I love my cribbidy crib.

At my age, she said most kids are saying about 3-5 words but I blew her mind today. Here are some of the words I can say at 15 months: Mama, Daddy, baby, hello, hockey, thank you, please, blue ball, good throw, book, fish "shish", truck, car, bubbles, cookie, go, two, and three. I'm starting to babble in sentences and then look at my parents with a goofy look like they should really understand. I had two shots today too. At this stage in my life, my favorite food is no longer cheetos, but thin mints girl scout cookies. Whatever scientist developed those should get a huge raise, and whoever developed such small packaging with not too many cookies should get a new job. One more thing that I hate to admit: I'm starting to throw little tantrums. Whenever I do though - my parents just laugh. What is that all about?

We've been very busy around this house. This last weekend got a chance to meet Mr Jax Murphy and also went to see Aunt Cami ref at Concordia college. My Mother's camera is on the fritz so there may not be pics for awhile until she can figure out how the sun fried her camera in Aruba.

Hope everyone is well - XOXO Lata!

Sunglasses Man

Yep, just spent this weekend shopping with Mama trying to help her find a new pair of sunglasses for their trip to Aruba. Like these?

My first trip to the ER

Sunday night was quite a night. In the middle of the night Mom and Dad threw me in the car and we raced through a snow storm to North Memorial Hospital's Emergency Room. Here's what happened next: (play video)

Don't worry, I was okay. I had 3.5 hours by myself to roam the ER halls, in the middle of the night while Doctors treated Mom for an icky stomach virus. She said she got more than 2L of "juice" She is finally feeling better and on the mend. I am remembering to wash my hands several times a day.
Back to my weekend! Saturday, Mom and I headed to the Venetian Waterpark at Holiday Inn and stayed overnight with my main gal Jade, her mom Jen and Jen's sister Kelsey. We had a blast! My first water slide ride.
I didn't really swim much but just wanted to stand like I am in the picture below - just watching all of the kids splash and splash.I got a boad ride from this guy - then realized a few minutes in...that the boat wasn't moving and he was fake.
Jade and I finished the evening with pizza, laughs and then a chocolate chip cookie before we cozied up in our pack n' plays and slept for 10 hours straight. Sunday we met Gpa & Gma Becker & Aunties for lunch at Chilis. We celebrated Valentines Day and celebrated Gma's Birthday that was on Monday! Happy Birfday Gma Becker!

Gpa shared his iced tea with me. Dad taught me how clean the toilets to help out around the house. Yeah, and did I tell you my new word that I say when I go #2 in my diaper? I say "poopy"Instead of crawling in the frig now, all I want to do once my parents open the door, is just sit in it. Not quite sure why.

Most importantly, all of my buddies at daycare! We had a Valentine's Day party and I'm still completely amazed at how Shelli got all of us (minus the little babies) to sit still for a picture. My best friend in the whole world is Ryan, the blondie to my right.

Last thing before I head to bed - congrats to Mom's good friend Katie (Cullen) and Gus with the birth of their daughter last night Evelyn Clair Gustavson! Big Sis Tyra and Big Bro Cullen will be great siblings - I can't wait to meet her!

Pneumonia and a Turd

Whew, what a day. Quick post here before I hit the hay for the night. A quick rundown of my day today...sorry, no pictures.

1. I woke several times in the middle of the night last night coughing/wheezing with a high temp. Dad spent a lot of the night taking care of me and rocking and loving me.
2. Mom took me to the Doctor in the morning. After this awful test of me being sqeezed in this scary machine, the diagnosis: pneumonia. PS: I weigh 21 lbs now. I'm still a little twerp.
3. Went to CVS and got myself some pink medicine that tastes like bubble gum.
4. Snuggled, rested and rocked with Mama today while Daddy was playing Hockey.
4. This morning/afternoon I wouldn't eat or drink at all but finally had some of my ba-ba tonight and a little spaghetti & meatballs.
5. I was thrown in the bathtub to get the spaghetti out of my hair.
6. I had to go poop but didn't want to get out of the tub, so I dropped a few turds in the tub.
7. I threw a huge fit when Ma took me out of the poopy bath water.
8. Almost forgot, I just cut a molar tooth (even before my 2nd front tooth) and am cutting about 6 teeth right now at the same time. Not fun.

I'm glad today is over. I just KNOW tomorrow will be better. Hopefully I kick this temp and turn the corner soon.

XOXO

Happy Hour and Pizza w/ Ian & Declan

Whoop Whoop, Happy Thursday. Lately, people have commented on how I'm rarely smiling on my blog photos. Well, I promise, I am one happy dude. To prove it, I actually smiled in one photo in the tub the other night. You happy Mom? Me and my love.

Last night I had a chance to go out for pizza with my buddies from church, Ian & Declan. Here's a video of Declan, he's a HAM - I was in the background, I guess trying to pull up my zipper on my jeans. Dad changed my diaper and I think he forgot to zipp zippp zipparoo.

Here they are...goofies. Declan is 6 yrs old. I'm going to try and set him up with my Auntie Ellie.

More to come this weekend. I'm just being a boy - driving trucks, emptying all drawers in every room of the house, watching TV (I love dateline at 530pm) and that's about all.

Lata!

The KING was Brainerd Bound

Hey people. Happy Birthday Gma Sherck - it was great to see you this weekend at the cabin! I even got to go along on the birthday ride with Gpa on the ice in Dad's work ATV. We went sledding in the back forest and checked on Gpa's huge fire that he was burning. He said he burned one of my stinky diapers! Ha!

I know you're thinking - what kind of ridiculous outfit am I wearing? Well, this was my Auntie Ellie's old outfit. It's perfect for sledding. I call myself a KING when I wear it. It was so hard for me to sit up in the sled that I laid back and chilled while Mom was slaving away.

Dad, Mommy and me out in front of the cabin.

What else is new? Well, number SREE (3) came in on top. My third top tooth. I think the doc was right...they're all coming at the same time. I have learned two new words. 1) Cookie, sounds like "Tootie" 2) Brady sounds like "JeeJee" I know, it sounds nothing like the actual words, but thats what I say.

Tonight I'm bundling up and watching the Vikes (hopefully) win. I hope everyone is doing well!