The Ecstatic

Okay, what is it you guys say? The be-all and end-all. Well, that's what this was. A backhoe AND front-loader parked around the corner from our house. Can you believe it? I couldn't, which is why I asked my mama and dada to take me out each and every day they were there (five days, not counting the late morning they finally left - EDITOR). What fun. What delight. Especially when my dad lifted me up behind the steering wheel of both vehicles. Heaven is what I'm saying. Nothing better. I still talk about it all these weeks later. Even sometimes in my sleep. Now I like to look at the pictures, all these pictures, which is what I'm doing right now.

David Comes to Dinner

Man, I love when we have company. Because these people do things with me. Like draw in my notepad with my crayons, making excellent drawings of animals and cars. Thank you, David!

Water Water Everywhere

Here's what I love to do. Fill up the bathroom sink with water and go to it, float things and throw water all around. If you know anything that's more fun I will tell you you are crazy.

August and Olive

A day at the deYoung.

Uncle Ted and Aunt Simone

Got to see my dad's Uncle Ted and Aunt Simone, visiting San Francisco from Canada. We went to a lot of fun places, from the pier where I got to see all the barking seals, to Golden Gate Park and the Flower Conservatory where there was a huge butterfly and I wasn't even afraid. Excellent day!

Have Bear Will Travel

Nothing gets between me and my Teddy Bear.


Except maybe my dad.

Table Time

Swing Baby Swing

Hand in Hand

LuLu, Shepherd, Cousin Janine, I like to hold hands, what can I say?

August with Haircut

It's true, what a difference a haircut makes. The way it happened, my dad telling me they were just going to take a little bit off. THIS is a little bit off? I was pretty okay until the clippers. Oh, that buzzing. I hate buzzing. "Lawnmower," I said. "Lawnmower, all done. All done." So that was that, the job stopped there, everyone keeps telling me I look so grown up now. They also tell me not to worry it will all grow back.

Just One More

Suddenly Last Summer

A trip to the Sacramento water park, a final summer hurrah before the business of autumn begins.

Boxtop

Critical Mass

Next up, training wheels!

Grandpa's Birthday

So it was Grandpa's birthday. We went to Sacramento and spent the day at Aunt Nancy's. There were my cousins, man there's a lot of them. Good times like I even need to say it.

Bicycle Built for Two

Another August day in San Francisco, another day that's freezing. Not that it wasn't fun, it being Eli's second birthday and all. There were excellent people, great things to do. Like riding Eli's old school tricycle for instance. Eli and Sheperd rode first, with some help from Eli's mama Illiana. Then I got to ride the tricycle with my friend Evie coming along, these things called birthdays sure are good all right.

Tiny Town

Okay, now this needs some explaining. Our friends Mark and Kee, or to be more specific Mark and Kee's kids Gabe and Sage, gave me Tiny Town a week or so back. Well, ever since I haven't been able to get enough of Tiny Town. In fact, I wake up and the first thing I say is, "Tiny Town, Tiny Town, Tiny Town." It's also the last thing I say every day too, you could say I'm kind of obsessed. Not that I couldn't stop playing with Tiny Town if I had to, you know? Really, I could stop any time. Just not today.

The Reader

My new favorite book, "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day." Not that my day is ever that horrible. Still, sometimes it's not exactly easy either.

Pescadero

A Saturday trip down the 1 to Pescadero. We went on a hike, which was really just going to the creek next to the parking lot where I threw rocks in the water for an hour. Then we went to Duarte's downtown and what a great meal. Whatever you do when you go, get the pie!

Colleen

Aunt Colleen came to visit for a few days, we had lots of fun like I even need to say it.

My Left Wrist

The first cast fell off while I was sleeping, the second stayed on even though it sure smelled funky underneath after three weeks of wearing it. Okay, I'll say it. My dad almost fainted when they finally took it off in the doctor's office. "Toejam," he said. "Sour, sour, toejam." Besides that, I can't say the cast did much to cramp my style. In fact, it gave me style if you ask me. I was still glad when it came off though.

Something Bad Happened

A fractured wrist, the "toddler injury" is what the people in the Emergency Room called it. How it happened, I fell off a ledge in Golden Gate Park when I was out walking with my dad. Oh, a very long day for everyone.

Mister Bubble

What's better than getting dirty in the dirt? Taking a bath, that's what!

Toy Truck

A toy truck, clean diapers, the living is fine.

Those Shoes

Dad's Birkenstock slippers, actually. Dig 'em.

Baby Pie