Me and My House: March 2011

To all my faithful readers who have been checking by this blog for about 2 weeks now, I am sorry. You see, I have recently been sick and teething. You may ask, "Why can't you blog and teethe at the same time?" Well, mommy has hid the computer from me because she thinks I will drool all over it with my sick germs and kill it. I found it though, and she's finally taking a nap, so I finally have a minute to update you on my 8th month of life! Here's my birthday picture...

As I told you above, I am teething. Man, I don't know how many teeth I will eventually end up having, but I'm convinced that I am part shark and that my mouth is going to end up looking like this...

At my 8 month birthday, I had 4 teeth! I actually currently already have even more than that, but you'll have to wait until my 9th month blog post to hear about those babies!!! Teething is pretty terrible. It hurts because it feels like little knives are poking at my gums all the time. It makes me want to chew on everyone and everything at all times. I drool constantly, but I don't have enough teeth to keep the drool in my mouth, so it falls right out of my mouth all the time. I soak all my bibs and clothes. Fischer helps me out though. He likes to lick up my drool strings before they hit the floor. It's a new game in our house - mommy hates that game. Oh well, they say it won't last forever....I hope they are right!

To take my mind off of teething, mommy and daddy took me to the circus!

It was so much fun! I saw Tigers, Elephants, Horses, Crazy Bendy People, Flying People, and all sorts of other fantastically colorful things! I couldn't take my eyes off of it all.

When I grow up, I'm going to be a Circus Tiger.

I went to my very first Birthday party. The party wasn't for me of course - I'm only 8 months old. It was for Brooklyn - the very first kid I ever met! Here's Brooklyn and me when we first met - she was 4 months old and I was 2 days old....

Here we are at her 1st Birthday Party! Those other people are our mommies.

Birthday parties are pretty cool. A bunch of people get together and give you cake and presents on the day you were born. All you have to do is be born and then hang out for 364 more days! It's really not a bad deal. I think it's really mommy and daddy throwing a party that they figured out how to keep us alive for a whole year! I am pretty excited about getting to eat some cake at my first birthday - daddy says it's yummy! Brooklyn seemed to like her cake!

Mommy and Grandmama took me on a trip to see my Aunt Bebe. She lives in Washington state. Here I am on my very first airplane ride!

I was a little nervous, but I decided that I really like to fly. On the way to Washington, I slept on the floor of the plane most of the way there - it was the middle of the night. On the way back, I was awake almost the whole time though. Why sleep when you can get constant attention, and you also get to look out the window!?!?

We had a lot of fun visiting and sightseeing. We were there for a WHOLE WEEK!

Here we are in front of Mt. Rainier...it looks like the clouds...

Here we are in Olympia - the capital of Washington.

Here we are in front of the Freemont Troll....he was under a bridge in Seattle and totally awesome!

Here I am at the Japanese Gardens...

And here's a pic of me and the Space Needle...I was pretty tired by this point!

Mommy hasn't always lived with Daddy. When she was in college, she lived with Mrs. Sarah. Mommy and I got to hang out with Mrs. Sarah and her twins while we were in Seattle. Mommy and Mrs. Sarah hadn't seen each other in 5 years!!! That's a whole kindergartener!!!!!!

NEWS FLASH: I STARTED CRAWLING THIS MONTH!!!!

*Side note: I still cannot roll from my back to my stomach.

My daddy saw me crawl first on March 8th, but I got REALLY good at crawling while we were in Seattle - I practiced a lot so that I'd be a pro by the time I got home to see my daddy - I really missed him while we were gone!

Here are some things I'm a pro at now:

Holding a sippy cup.