I'm a walkin' teethin' fool!

There have been bumps in my gums for more than a week and I've been a super crabby pants to prove they are teeth. Nothing has come through yet and we are getting very frustrated. I don't like to eat what I am supposed to. I'd rather eat cheerios, cookies, and crackers. I don't like to sleep, at night or for naps. In fact, I woke up so many times last night that mom brought me out and let me watch "The Replacements" with her. Mission Accomplished! Mom is sick, and because I am teething, she cannot tell if i am sick too or not. I cannot tell either. I just know that I don't feel good. But regardless of how I have been feeling, I've managed to start walking a little. I can take up to 6-7 steps at a time. It is really fun! I cannot turn though and that is really frustrating. Sometimes, when I am playing with something, I just want to turn around and walk away to something else. I just cannot figure out how to turn around without falling down though.

This is me laying with mom, not sleeping, at 10PM last night watching the movie...


She thinks I'm a little stinker, but she loves me anyways.

I've got a new bedroom. It is dad's old office. They painted it blue for me and put all my stuff in there. It's really fun to play in. I can come visit mom when she is taking a shower (i don't have to be sleeping!), it is really dark at night so I can sleep good, and there is a door so it blocks out a lot of noise. The only bad thing is that I've been bitten by spiders four times already. We are going to get the room exterminated and the outside sprayed too. Hopefully that will get rid of the spiders because I really don't want to give up my new room.



Spider Bites on my chest/collarbone


October 2nd, Mom was working on my new room and cleaning my sheets. I couldn't go to sleep in my crib because my sheets were still in the dryer (including my one and only mattress protector). I got so tired I fell asleep on dad's lap while watching tv.


Grandma Diane bought me a winter jacket and snow pants for my birthday last Sunday. The weather is getting so cold that I've had to wear my jacket a few times already. Mom and I go on walks during the day and she had to bundle me up so much. I looked like a marshmallow and i could hardly move anything! I still had a good time though! We went to Caribou Coffee and I got to take my jacket off for a little bit, sit down and eat some cheerios. And then I got to play with the toys with a 2 year old boy.

10 Months Old!

Yesterday I turned 10 Months old! Only 2 more months til I am a year old! Time sure does fly! Anyways, Mom took some pictures of me. The first two I think were out of pure boredum.. early in the morning while I was getting into things. The second two are my "10 Months Pictures". She was trying to get me to sit on the bench but I kept getting up and standing.

Laugh & Learn Stride-to-Ride Learning Walker

Wooh! That's a mouth full! Anyways! That's the name of my new toy! Great Grandma Perko gave mommy the money to buy it. I love it! It's so much fun! I get really frustrated when I walk into the wall or the couch and get stuck though.

These two pictures are of me on Monday night after Grandma Diane brought me and mommy to Target (on the way home from GGP's house) to get my toy. I was sooo tired, but still wanted to try it out.





These are of me a few days later walking around with it.







I don't know if I ever told you, but about a month ago, mom was resizing pictures for LJ and she accidentally pushed "yes" to save the picture and the printable size of a really cute picture was forever lost to a 300x200 pixel picture. Well.. Mom did it again.

The third picture posted on here is forever a 300x420 pixel photo. Mom isn't as depressed because this one is retakeable. The other one that she accidently hit "yes" on is not retakeable. :(

Sleeping weirdo!

Every night, before she goes to bed, mom has to find my head and face and uncover it.....



Today I took a nap around 2-2:30PM and woke up around 3PM. I was still SO tired, but just too darn stubborn to go back to bed. So mom took me upstairs to watch tv. I wouldn't sit on her lap, I wanted to stand on the chair, inbetween her and the arm of the chair. I laid my head down on the arm, watched that 70's show for a while and then fell asleep. Mom had to get up to answer the phone so she tucked the chenille throw from the chair under my butt and then got a pillow to put under there too. She ran down stairs and grabbed her camera because she thought I was so cute sleeping there on the chair.





After all, today HAS been a busy day for me. I went to grandma Mary's at 7:30AM, then Dante, Ana, and Kaden came over around 8:30AM, then we (Grandma, mom, ana, and kaden) left to go to my appointment at about 10:30AM, we were there and at Cub foods till about Noon. Went home, woke up, ate, played downstairs, crawled all the way up to the top of the stairs, freakd mom out... I was tired!

Hidden Valley Park

Mom and I try to go to the park at least once a day. We haven't been there in a while but we went yesterday and today. It has rained both mornings so the sand has been wet and there have been very little amounts of kids there, but we still have lots of fun.

Yesterday was very bright when we went. It was hard to keep the sun out of my eyes and we didn't stay for very long, there were no kids to follow around the park and the swing almost put me to bed. I crawled around in the sand a little bit, stood up for awhile, and tried to stand holding onto the swing (that didn't work very well).









I had a lot more fun today. I crawled around in the sand, built a little sand castle, saw a baby that was a little bit older than me and saw a big girl. I stood up holding onto some weird stair things and stood up on one of the play ground platforms and pretended I was driving. I wore socks and they got all wet and dirty. I also tried a little sand. It was ok, nothing like sweet potato's though. I am thinking I might try it again though, just to make sure.













I bonked my head on those stairs. It hurt really bad and I cried. And then I cried some more because mom wasn't holding me the way I wanted to be held. I was ok for a while after that.. but then I went on the swing and started to get very sleepy. I almost fell asleep in the swing. And then we went home.

I found the VHS!

It's been raining all morning. Mom and I have had to stay in and play with inside toys, watch a little tv, and that sort of stuff. I have been exploring the upstairs living room. Mom's been making me dinner and putting it in the freezer for later.

While exploring the living room, I found grandma and grandpa millers VHS collection.







Mom picked me up, put me on the other side of the room and sat down with me for a little bit. I pleaded innocence.



We've been playing with the camera too.. not just her. I've been trying to get it. She turns the lens around so that I can see myself in the view finder. And then I try to grab myself in the camera. She took some cute pictures of me and her together as well. I love posing for pictures with my mama!





I like when she tells me secrets too!

Pictures from the wedding.

My auntie Susan got Married yesterday. I stayed for the ceremony and while the picture were taken and for a little bit of the dinner and reception. Mom called Grandma Mary to come pick me up. It was 6PM and I hadn't had anything to eat since around 2-2:30pm, I also hadn't had a nap since around the same time. I couldn't crawl around and play anywhere. There were SO many people there, I just wanted to get out of there. It was pouring before the ceremony, stopped during the ceremony and started again when we were walking back to the tent. I wasn't under an umbrella and I got soaked (and that's an under statment!) I had to take of my tux and put jammies on because I was so wet. My shirt was see-through.. and I had orange spit up on my white shirt, vest, and jacket. I had a lot of fun at Auntie Amy's house though. I stayed there over night and mom and dad came to pick me up this morning. I didn't want to leave. I kept trying to wiggle out of my carseat. I did get out of it once.

Dad took these two pictures of me before the ceremony.





Mom says she will put up some pictures of her and daddy and her, daddy, Matt and Susan when she gets them scanned.

9 Month Well Baby Check Up!

NO SHOTS!! I was so relieved to find out that I didn't have to have any shots! I saw a new doctor this time. She is my cousins pediatrician too. I won't get to see her again though because she is leaving the clinic in the beginning of November.

Anyways, all is good! My hernia is good, my eating is good, my weight is good, my development is good. Everything is good! Don't have anything to tell you about on this visit.. because everything was good!

Here are the stats though:
Weight: 19lbs 10.5 oz (between 25th & 50th percentile)
Height: 27.25in (between 10th & 25th percentile)

The Zoo!

I had miss placed the CD that grandma Mary made for me. But I found it!

Aunty Amy, Dante, and Ariana brought Mom and I to the Zoo last Saturday. We had lots of fun and saw lots of animals. I wasn't too excited though because I had yet to take a decent nap that day. Aunty Amy has to send Mom a few of the pictures that she took, but for now I will show you the ones mommy took!

These are called "Flamingo's"


This is me looking at the Flamingo's


This is a monkey, but I don't know what kind of monkey...


Polar Bears are BIG! I envied him swimming in his nice, cool pool


We saw seals as well.. and they got to swim in a nice, cool pool as well. We don't have any pictures of them though.

This is the girl and the boy lion laying in the sun together


I tried to look at the lions, but I was just too dang tired!


We also saw Buffalo, an Ostrich, a Zebra, Giraffe's, and lots of other animals too. I cannot wait until my daddy takes me to the zoo!