LIFE as a BECKER

Happy Friday everyone!! This week has just been me and Ma chillin' around this joint because Dad is ATVing and fishing in Colorado for work...we HAVE been busy though!

Tuesday was National Night Out party on Oakwood Drive. We got together with a bunch of our neighbors and celebrated friends and great weather. I got soaked because I was playing in the pool of water - whoops forgot my trunks. But...Mom didn't even care and she let me get as wet as I wanted.

The fire truck came by and police car and a bunch of sirens that I DID NOT like. I wanted to stay away from those big loud trucks and just play on the swingset slide with Gabriella.

Above is my new favorite activity - playing Flight Simulator with Dad on the computer...he let's me steer the plane all of the time, but I always crash it.

Last week, I had a chance to spend 4 whole days with Gma & Gpa Becker - Zoie & Ellie. It was a super fun time! I'm starting off a pic of my cutie batootie Aunts Zoie and Ellie. This is a picture from their trip to San Diego - they went kayaking in CAVES! Zoie even fell out of the boat when there was a little shark swimming around. Mom dropped me off last Wednesday in St. Peter at McDonalds with Gma & Gpa and I spent the rest of the week with them in St. James! A little journy of pictures from my visit...surprising, but I don't have any pictures of Gma & Gpa. I swear they were there....hmmm....

Ellie, Gpa and I went on walks to the lake to throw rocks.

I loved this place - Mom has been telling me about Schmidt's Bakery since I was born. Yeah, I agree with her - they do have the best glazed donuts in the whole world, she sure wasn't lyin'

The girls and I played dress-up. I wouldn't let them put a dress on me though...I know I'm only 20 months old but I'm one smart cookie.

Zoester and I played at the park!

I went to swimming lessons too to watch the girls swim. Then we headed to Ellie's soccer practice - a couple action shots attached! I have a feeling I'm going to be a soccer playa like my Daddy was. He's not so quick & fast anymore but I heard he was lightening back in his younger days. Hee hee

Nice move, Ellie. I found a friend at the field too.

That's my week. Hope you enjoyed my blog post Karis. I know you hawk my blog like no one else and wanted to keep you happy. Ha!

XOXOX

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe...

I thought I'd title this post "One, Two, Buckle my Shoe..." only because the past couple weeks my parents have seriously been working on their patience with me. Know why? Well, I love buckles now. The stroller, the highchair, the lifejacket, the carseat, everything. After I get out of anyone of these things, I will proceed to re-click all of the buckles back into their correct spots and while doing so say "help me." The reason I say this is because when I get in my Mom's car in my car seat, she always says "please help me" so now, when I want to buckle I just say "help me!"

I'm exhausted from another long weekend at the cabin! We have been completely spoiled by the nice weather, the great family and all of the wining and dining. A few pictures attached - my Cousins R&M were still there so I had a blast! Here are Michael and I doing the DOG PILE on Daddy! Love Dad's expression, jeepers

We celebrated Miss Rachel's 7th Birthday on Saturday night. Man, she had a ton of presents. Best part of all - I had a chance to sing Happy Birthday and eat a huge pice of chocolate cake heaped with frosting. Gpa even slid me an extra slice on the 'down low' - I'm not sure if the sugar high was the reason I was still up at 11pm calling for the ducks and boats???

Typical BMS "look" - just chillin' out in the floaty tube. Hey, Mom! What up woman

Here is Mr Michael...I love having another boy to play with!! We all went tubing again today. I went with my Momma and kept saying "Mama, rain!" because apparently I thought it was raining when it was really the splashes coming straight for my face. Duh!

Chillin' in my boat, just loungin'. This is right before I tried to move and the thing tipped over - gotta be careful, Dad says its just like a Canoe.

Off to a busy week and more pictures will come next week. Wednesday night, I'm heading for StJ to spend 3-4 days with my Gma Lisa, Gpa Becker, Zoester & Ellie. If the weather's nice, I sure hope they take me to the park!! Hoorray! Mom & Dad will have a little peace & quiet and may even head out to dinner, drinks followed by a movie on Thursday or Friday night.

Have a great week everyone!

I'm a lucky dude.

Yes, I'm a lucky dude, I said. I had a chance to make ANOTHER quick trip this weekend up to the cabin! Yippee! I had a blast - went boating, tubing, fishing, played with my Cousins R&M, watched thunderstorms, played with the water hose and much more. I'm a talking machine now - sometimes I just don't take a rest. I'm also starting to put 2 words together often such as "bye Ryan" "cookie please" "high chair" "lawn mower" and stuff like that! A few pictures before I hit the hay for the night of my weekend - I didn't catch many but here's a few!
Miss Rachel my Cousin from GA- isn't she a catch?
This is me - 19 months old

Can you see me in the picture? Dad rigged up a rod for me and I fished from the shore. I only fell in once and Gma and Mom were laughing at me. Didn't catch much but I will someday.

Cabin = Ice Cream treats outside!

Dad took me out floating in the water - it was super warm!

I know we've been out of town a lot lately so thank you to everyone who is putting up with us being MIA lately. Once the snow comes, we PROMISE to be around. Ha!

Lata! BMS

July 4th Vacation 2010 - GULL LAKE!

I CANNOT believe my long vacation is already over. Puh. It was soo much fun we have been procrastinating leaving the cabin! The weather on Gull Lake for the July 4th holiday was a PERFECT sunny & 80-85 all week. I even got a great tan! I had a chance to go tubing, fishing, throw rocks, dancing, playing, swimming, napping and much more. Here are a few pics that were on Mother's camera but she said she is no longer great at taking pictures because she's too busy running after me!!

We were on Gull Lake with Gma/Gpa Durham and the entire family celbrating Gma's 60th Birthday party all week at Craugens cabin #656. Here I am eating one of Gmas Birthday July 4th cupcakes. It was prrty good.

Craugen's had an outdoor pool. I loved it and am FEARLESS when it comes to water which scares my parents. They may look into some swimming lessons for me soon. I would jump in the water, dunk my head and then when Mom would pull me back above water I'd say "whoa!"

My first tubing experience and I loved it, wasn't scared a bit. I told Dad to drive super fast.

One of the several pontoon rides with Gma and her best friend Shanna.

The new word I learned? "Wee-weed" - that's what I call seaweed. My Mom's sister taught me that because I loved playing in it on the shoreline. I was nicknamed Seaweed Man the rest of vacation!While I was playing with my wee-weed, after Dad would tell me "good throw" after I cleaned it all up, I'd run over and give him a fat kiss. I think in High School I already know what my summer job will be - I'll be a clean-up shore boy at Craugen's.

Many more pictures to come! I hope everyone had a great, safe Holiday weekend! Now, Cousins Rachel & Michael have arrived; can't wait to rough house with them!!!! Back to "work" this week, I'm starting to call my daycare "work"

Oh yeah, one last thing. I know how to sing the Happy Birthday song now. But I say it like this this "Happy Happy Happy to you!!"

Mother's Day Gift - A Night Out

Sorry I haven't written lately - but, honestly we have not been home! I wanted to post this picture, remember in an earlier post when Dad & I surprised Mom for Mother's Day a night out with the girls? Here's a pic of the ladies below... Sounds like they had a BLAST and the gift was a huge success. Thanks to all of Mom's friends who blocked out their day for the fun and stay-over at the hotel but I will NOT thank you for the killer headache she had the next day. She said the wine just tasted tooo good! :)

Again, Mom - thanks for being such a cool lady. I still don't like it when you don't let me play in the toilet or throw food on the floor but, I think I'll get over it someday.

The night after Mom's thang, we had a BBQ here over at our house with a bunch of our friends - about 50-60 people stopped by for brats, hotdogs, beer and jumping in the jumparoo in the backyard. I was lame that night because whenever there are gobbs of people around, I want to cling to my parent's legs. Not sure why.

Happy Dadda's Day 2010

This weekend, we celebrated a very special thing: my Dadda. He had to guide in a fishing tournament, a fundraiser for Camp Confidence so Ma & I followed him up to Brainerd for the weekend since he's been out of town a lot lately. I love the cabin so much that I slept 11 hours each night and DIDNT take naps because it's so much fun there.


News alert! I caught my first fish! Yep, a little bass underneath the dock. I already know how to reel in a fish. Grandpa takes his shovel and shovels up big huge of piles of rocks for me on the lakeshore. I throw them all the way back in the lake. Nope, it doesn't get old. We went on a few boat rides - one in Gpas Cobalt (I drove fast) and then in Daddy's new boat, a new Lund fishing boat with a huge 150 motor.

Me and Dad sitting in the cabin porch on Father's Day 2010. I love that dude. Thanks Dad for being such a good Dadda and a great husb to my Mama.

Thanks Dad for teaching me how to fish. I think I said the word "boat" about 800 times this weekend. I can tell we're going to be very good buddies when I grow up...even more than we are now. I love the cabin so much (except for Gpas loud tractor) - do you think we can move there? Peeeez?

Carrie On 6k & Brooklynn's Brigade Kiddie Run

Mark your calendars!!!! Date: Sat, August 14th @ 830am CST

Address: Word of Peace Luthern Church, 217058 129th Avenue North - Rogers, MN 55374

Fees: $20 for 6K, $15 for kiddie run. Same day registration $25

Registration closing date is Aug 13th.

Why? The first annual Carrie on 6K and Brooklynn's Brigade Run are being held to celebrate the life of Carrie Lorman - the princess that took care of me at daycare when I was a wee little one. She was lost in a car accident in Dec 2009, but her memory continues to inspire us and make us smile & giggle each day. All proceeds will go directly to a trust for my good friend, Brooklynn - Carrie's daughter.

Please join us if you can!

For more information, please visit http://www.active.com/ or contact my Mom with details. Registration opens at 730am, Brooklynn's kiddie run will start at 830am and 6K will begin at 9am.

Mom also heard that they're going to be selling an awesome Carrie Cookbook but together by all family & friends - so, if you just want to buy a cookbook that's fine too. I'm not a very good runner either.

My trip to KC on an Aewpane in da sky for Sara & Kris's Wedding!

Just got back today from a long weekend trip to Kansas City! I'm a lucky duck cuz I got the chance to ride on an airplane again...Mom & Dad say that I'm a complete SAINT that I was very very good the entire trip. We headed to KC for Mom's step sister Sara's wedding! She was a STUNNING Bride and the wedding was perfect. The pouring down rain is very good luck. More pics to post, but here are a few teasers until we get all of the pics downloaded! So, she's my Mom's step sister - does that make her my Step-Aunt? Sheesh, so confusing for a little man.

While we were in KC, we had a few hours to stop and see my Great Gma Becker who is kickin' it strong! We also were greeted by Susie, Peter, Michael & Emily too. Gma - I loved every minute of the visit and was sad that I couldn't stay longer.

Memorial Day 2010 @ the Cabin

Whew, I know I know, I'm late. Like...two weeks late with these photos! Memorial Day weekend we packed up the car and headed for the lake with the rest of the billion cars in traffice. We spent Friday night with Gma, Gma's sister Pat and all of the "boys" that were heading out Sat AM for their annual Canada fishing trip. I practically had the cabin all to myself with Gma, A Pat and Mom waiting on me hand and foot. I've attached some of my favorite pics below - this will be mostly a picture post for now. This pic is my "room" at the cabin...it's called the bunk room. All of the beds are down in this pic but they're normally up in bunk beds. I can't wait until I'm older and out of my crib so I can sleep in the beds with my cousins RG and MH. While we were at the cabin, Ma and I headed over to Craugens to see our friends - the Moores! Here I am with Zach & Tyler - they're goofballs

This is my favorite thing to do at the lake: throw rocks. When I came on Friday Gma had already picked an entire bucket for me! I about #@%(& my pants when I saw that bucket I was so dang happy.

I shouted "Hey ski doo slow down around my Gmas grounds!"

I played with the water hose. Yeah, for about 2 hours straight. Weather was awesome - 85 and Sunny.

We went to Ernies with Gma and Aunt Pat for dinner and a cocktail. We also made it to Zorbaz too with the Moores on Sunday night for pizza!

I like getting dirty.

We had a GREAT TIME and I cannot wait to go back this coming weekend for some more PHUN. While we were there we saw a frog and it went pee all over mommy's hand. It was hilarious. Maybe this time Gpa will take me into the woods and find me some spiders, deer and chipmunks.

18 Months Old and Kickin' it

Hi Hi Hi! I'm officially 18 months old now...whoa how time flies. I realized now that at 18 months, I absolutely HATE going to the doctor. The minute I walk into that place and notice the fish tank in the waiting room - I know what is to come and start pitchin' a fit. I had a chance to see Dr. Marybeth once again and I could careless if she was nice because I hated every minute of the appointment.
Here are the digits! She said that I look great - seem to be healthy and am doing exactly everything that other 18 month olders should be doing. I'm saying about 50-60 words now which is probably more than most two year olds, however I'm starting to show a little shyness when I see new people. I get very quiet and whisper.

Height: 32.75 in (50%)
Weight: 22.12 oz (10%) - we THINK this is close. I was freaking out when they were trying to weigh me.
Head size: 49csm (75%)

I now feed myself with a fork and a spoon - actually fairly well and I'm using my please & thank you's when I want something. Just within the last week, I have become very clingy to my mom which is something new. I sure hope I pop out of this phase. I'm a climber. I climb on everything including climbing up the drawers to the top of my dresser. I climb to the bathroom sink and sit in it, climb on the high chair and then onto the kitchen counters if my parent leave the high chair close. I'm a little monkey boy. I'm starting to count - the other day at Lowe's while I was waiting for this lady to mix me a gallon of paint, I threw a bunch of giftcards on the floor and counted one, tooo, sree, oor, iiive. Also, if you ask me to spell my name, I will say "Bee, ah, ah, ah, ah....(pause) Baby!" Baby stands for Brady. I still poop in the tub a lot so the doc said I should try going in the potty already. I picked up two potties and will try those soon. Oh yeah, one last thing - I can crawl out of my crib now. Mom says phase 2 of beds are coming but her & Dad are still trying to figure out with what to do with me.

Not only were we back at the doctor for my 18 month appointment, but were back two additional times the same week with pink eye & an ear infection. I'm feeling much better, thank you. It was great though, I got to stay "at home" sick one day with Mom all day because I had pink eye and couldn't go to school.