my owie

today i went to little monkey bizness with mommy and gampa. although i had fun, i did fall and get an owie under my eye. i like to consider it my first battle wound.

my great grandpa cecil

i got to meet my great grandpa cecil (grammie's daddy) this weekend, and even got to be part of the baptism that gampa performed for him. he's a funny man and i'm glad i finally got a chance to meet him. hopefully we'll see him again soon!

my first baseball game

today i went to my first major league baseball game with mommy, daddy and gampa. i got to experience the game, take a few bites of a rocky dog and cheer on the colorado rockies.

yummy, my first bite of a rocky dog

gampa teaching me about the game

cheering on the colorado rockies

time to go home

gampa's retirement

a few weeks ago we went to albuquerque to celebrate my gampa's retirement from hcpc. we surprised him on friday, and then lula and my three oldest cousins surprised him on saturday. we were all so glad to be there for him on the day of his retirement. we love you, gampa!

gampa is loved by all

gampa and his brothers...along with cousin brock

gampa getting a hug from pastor larry moss. he was hcpc's
senior pastor for many, many years, and was daddy's boss, too.

everyone had something special to say

my cousins and i were a pleasant surprise to gampa...
he had no idea we were all coming!

a day in the park

today i went to washington park in denver for some professional photos by adam and eve photography (mommy had a groupon!). afterwards, daddy took some photos since the professional ones won't be ready for a few weeks. the park was so much fun and the weather was great. although there were flowers everywhere, i spent most of my time playing in the dirt and mommy spent most of her time trying to keep me out of it.

let me tell you what i want

mommy and daddy have been using the baby signing time method to teach me to communicate until i learn to speak. daddy removed the audio from the clip so you wouldn't have to hear all the distracting grown up conversation that goes on during dinner and can focus on the star of the video...me.

sitting on a family treasure

my gampa and grammie have a neat little table and chair set at their house and they let us take it home so i could use it. we found out that it was built by hand by my gampa's great uncle for mommy and lula when they were little. so it's a special set that's been in the family for a long time. thank you gampa and grammie for letting me use the set. i'm enjoying eating my meals at a table that is just the right size for me. i promise to be careful with it so we can pass it on to others in the family.