What I've been up to lately....

Starting off with a pic of my Aunties Ellie & Zoie on their first day of school this week. Wow - they're getting big!!Last week was crazy! Shelli was off on vacation to some sunny place so I had a chance to spend most of the week with Daddy, Mom and Gma/Gpa. Bad news? I came down with a cold and then followed by the icky flu bug of vomiting and the squirts. It was not fun. After some relaxing time and about a liter of "juice" (Pedialyte), I have officially turned the corner and feel great! I'm back at daycare and rockin' and rollin' with my friends or, as I say "fends"

Last weekend we headed up to Gull Lake. Dad participates/volunteers at an annual Fishing Tournament called Fishing has no Boundaries. I'm very proud of him for his involvement in this tourney and I've attached some super funny pictures below! If you'd like to read more - catch Daddys' Due North blog http://www.duenorthoutdoors.tv/bill-shercks-blog/

Here are Daddy's fishing partners last Saturday. They were hoots!

Update on my end. I still love ice cream, especially ice cream with chocolate.

My new favorite thing to do is pretend that I'm working like Mom does all of the time! Haha....I know how to use the mouse and type on the keyboard to write these blog posts!

Here is me & the Mrs. on a playdate outing with all of Mom's friends and the kids at a splash pad. Mom is feeling much better but her belly is getting huge already! It must be the cheetos & fudgesicles! Ha! The baby peanut is now 15 weeks old and a growing machine. Please continue to pray for a healthy baby sister or brother AND a healthy rest of the pregnancy! Everyone keeps asking.....will we find out the sex of the baby? Um...we're a 'fly by the seat' kinda family and we can't think of one good reason why we would find out! I think we'll wait for the surprise. I sure hope it's a boy so I have someone to play in my sandbox with me that Gpa Sherck is building me!

This weekend we're headed for the MINNESOTA STATE FAIR! I'm sooo eating a funnel cake, cheese curds, a corn dog, snickers on a stick, watermelon and corn on the cob! I can't wait!!

My life is about to change...a GROWING family!

News flash! I'm going to be a big brother!! This picture was taken over a month ago and I'm sure the baby has grown much more in Mama's belly! We are so very excited and very blessed to have a new peanut Sherck on the way with a due date of March 2nd but will most likely be induced late February. The doctor doesn't want Mom to have the baby in the car:) Please pray for a healthy baby and great continuation of the pregnancy!

Carrie's 6K

We had a great weekend celebrating the life of Carrie Lorman who was brought to heaven last December. Carrie took care of me when I was little - her memory lives on and they had the first annual Carrie On 6K race and it was awesome. They had over 400 people that attended the event...some of my favorite pictures are attached!

We all let go of pink balloons in Carrie's memory. I know that they've reached her by now...all of the balloons had messages to her!

Here is Shelli with Carrie's daughter, my friend Brooklynn....she was exhausted from the busy morning!

I was in a, what I called it...a "run race"

Here was the kiddie run called Brooklynn's Brigade. I didn't win. To be honest, I didn't even finish the course. Ha.

BUT....I was a racer and I even got my own number.

Here's me and Mom before my race, she even made me stretch n' all.

Thanks to everyone that have supported our good friends the Lormans the past 9 months. We miss Carrie deeply but this past weekend was a great way to get together to celebrate Carrie's life! I can't wait until next year!!!!!!! And, next year I expect all of you to join me!!! :)

BUSTED in the Bubbles......

We got busted! Last night it was Daddy's turn to give me a bath. About ten minutes after we headed upstairs, Mom heard us giggling and laughing. She caught us in the act and grabbed her camera! We had boys time-a bath of not so much scrubbing and tons of bubbles! I think we had about 6 inches stacked and it was awesome. I'm sure this will be embarassing when I'm 15 yrs old. Ha!

Do I look like my big daddy?

Happy Friday everyone! Today was a very special, great day - Mom picked me up from daycare to take me out to lunch to meet with my GF Ainsley at Culvers! We ate corndogs, chicken sticks, fries and chocolate ice cream together. Isn't she a cutie batootie? I even looked at her and said "cute!" I found this picture of my Daddy when he was a little kid, probably my age maybe a little older. What do you think - any sort of resemblance? I know I have Mom's blue eyes and blonde hair but, we sure look like clones if you ask me!

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!!"