March madness disappointment

I got caught up in the frenzy that is 'March Madness' and dressed in support of my friends' favorite teams yesterday. Unfortunately, I'm afraid my early morning diaper leak (which required a change out of the clothes I'm wearing on the left) was a bad omen - the team from Memphis made Mo's Spartans look awfully slow in the first half ... and Sparty was never able to recover.

Mom, Dad, and I also traveled to my Wisconsin Grandparents' house yesterday in preparation for my first trip to the Friendly Confines on Monday, and we made a pit stop along the way (in the city where Mom and Dad used to live) to see old friends and watch the Badgers lose big-time, too. I don't know if it was caused by the score or not, but man do Badger fans really like to drink a yellow foamy liquid!

Today we went book and toy shopping ... and met an old honest guy and other people dressed up in funny costumes at the grand opening of a new war museum in town.

I also had my first 25 cent ride on the infamous "trolley to nowhere" (that's me on the right sleeping during the ride).

I've got talent

Mom and I walked to her school this afternoon to watch her students' talent show. All the kids loved to see me smiling! When we got home, I practiced a few of the dancin' moves I picked up at the show.

Dad helped me practice walking and standing tonight too!

Rootbeer makes me tired

Today's adventure with Dad actually originated last night - when the upstairs toilet started making funny noises ... so after daycare today we dropped Mom off at the gym and ventured over to the hardware store. Dad found the toilet part ... and discovered that he could save big $$$ on his favorite rootbeer at the same store!

I would have contributed more to the cause, but I did my best Zoe impression yesterday and didn't take a nap ALL DAY (it was my first "all dayer") so I caught up on my zzz's while Dad shopped.

Well rested and back home, I had fun with my toys and danced to the Indigo Girls until bedtime.

Hippity hoppity

Happy Easter! My holiday weekend was a time of 1sts ...

Saturday saw my inaugural "play time" with my crumply paper (I'm chewing it on the right - it makes lots of noise when you touch it) ...

On Saturday I was at long last big enough to wear B'Gosh overalls and I played with my first Easter bunny ...

I was adorned in my first Easter outfit on Sunday. It's so soft that Mom is jealous she doesn't have a matching getup!

Not a bad Friday

Since daycare wasn't in session today, I spent the morning hiding under Dad's labcoat at work while Mom went to the gym ... and then Mom and I had an afternoon like old times - eating and dancing and sleeping at home.

The plan was to make lentil soup for dinner ... until we discovered we were out of lentils! Silly Mom and Dad! So all 3 of us bundled up and set out on a BOB adventure into the snowstorm in search of the final soup ingredients at the co-op a few blocks away. Thanks to Aunt Kristin for strongly recommending big stroller tires - the snow didn't slow us down at all!

Meet my ExerSaucer

Check out my schnazzy toy! Sara put me in one a couple of days ago at daycare and I loved being able to check out all the other kids while on my own ... fortunately my cousin Zoe is lending me hers, so Mom dusted it off and now I have yet another place to play. Hooray for Me!

Thanks to everyone who has called to leave me messages ... I listen to them just about every day! I of course can't put a face with your voice just yet, but I'll keep listening just the same.

It's pretty easy being green

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I was all things green today: Dad picked out a green onesie, green pants, green socks ... even my Bum Genius was green! I was all smiles for my first Irish adventure, but I'll really be smiling at this time next year if I can convince Mom and Dad to let me taste their shamrock shakes!

Dad and I shared the same hat style as we bundled up to brave the freshly fallen flakes outside this morning. I was just getting used to the walks in my BOB, but it looks like I'll have to wait until nicer weather returns before we stroll the sidewalks again.

A giraffe?

My grandma, grandpa and aunt from Wisconsin visited us this weekend and had lots of fun trying to make me smile! The weekend was busy with our Saturday morning walk for breakfast goodies (which I didn't sleep through, for once) ...

... and getting squeezed on the couch ...

... and putting my yoga clothes on with Aunt Betsy so Mom and I could show her how we exercise ...

... and going to the zoo! Sunday turned out to be another beautiful day, so before everyone left to go home we decided it was the perfect opportunity for my first animal adventure. I saw lots of primates (both the human and the non-human kind) ...

...and enormous ice-cap dwelling mammals.

Mom and Dad keep insisting that we saw a baby giraffe, too, but I sure don't remember it.

When the time came for goodbyes after the zoo, I made sure everyone had a smile to remember me by until next time.

Puddle jumpin'

Today was beautiful! Mom, Dad and I decided to head out to finish our walk from the other day. The neighborhood puddles were no match for the BOB. We sloshed our way around and ended up at Snap for a pizza.

I kept one eye out just to make sure we were headed in the right direction.

but then I fell asleep ...

March miscellaneous

Last night I practiced rolling over from my front to my back ... sometimes I feel like rolling over .... sometimes I don't.

Today the weather was so nice that Mom and I set out on a walk after daycare ... except we didn't get very far. We made a pit stop at our neighbors' house and went inside for a chat and some pics ... maybe we'll finish the walk tomorrow.

I also demonstrated my favorite new thing - shoving my fingers and anything held in my fingers into my mouth!

Tonight Mom and I read Your Personal Penguin before I turned in for the night.

A sleepy weekend

A good weekend ... lots of growing, my first dirty diapers in a week, my first Cubs game on TV (only 3 weeks until opening day!). Daycare must have worn me out on Friday - I fell asleep at 7 pm and didn't wake up until 4 am Saturday! I'd never done that before. Because Saturday was the 27th (and, hopefully, final) morning of negative air temps this winter, Dad bundled me up for our walk to Sarah Jane's and Audubon for donuts and mochas.

As usual, I slept through our visit to Audubon while Mom and Dad read the paper.

I crashed in the living room in Mom's sling ...

... and napped with Mom Sunday afternoon.
To finish the week smelling my best, Dad gave me a bath Sunday night before night-night time.

Success at Sara's

This morning I sent Mom off to school before I headed to daycare at Sara's for the first time.

I was my old self again today after a rough ISWD, Day III, and I had a lot of fun checking out all the activity going on around me at Sara's. All the other kids were so interested in touching me and playing with me that Sara had to implement the "one finger" rule so that there was enough of me to go around for everyone!

Tonight I went face-to-face with my new 2-headed circus toy ...

... and "put both legs in" while listening to Dan Zanes sing "The Hokey Pokey"!

ISWD, Day III

Check out my fancy pants! This morning Mom said they were "cute", but Dad referred to them as "cranky" all day, so go figure.

While I admit I was a bit off my game today, I did have a few good moments.

But this is a better reflection of my day.

ISWD, Day II

Bad news: my 'sleep-through- the-night' streak stopped at 1. Good news: I still only only woke up once!

Although this website is supposed to detail my adventures, it's hard to be too adventurous when the temps outside struggle to get into the teens ... but Dad and I tried to be a little more thrill-seeking today anyway. We played the piano this morning ...

... and took a walk to Dabble to stock up on birthday cards ...


... and pretended I was flying on top of Dad's knees...

...and then took a faceplant into nap time.