Basket Rides

Resli and I just love it when Daddy goes to the dry cleaner, because that means he has to bring his big laundry basket back in from the car afterwards. . . And we often get a ride in it!

Yep, it looks crazy, but it's actually fun!

And Daddy gets his workout this way!

Fun times!

Me and my frohawk

As you know, my teacher Ms. Amy calls my wonderful hairdo a "frohawk." And quite frankly, she's got a point. I mean, look at these curls!

Sometimes we try to clip it down, but it doesn't really help...

One day Daddy did some serious brushing, and managed to produce some pretty tame results -

But they only lasted for a few minutes. Let's face it, the frohawk is here to stay!

She must get it from her Daddy

A conversation between Mami and Lela

LELA: My bag!
MAMI: Well, sweetie, it has both of our stuff in it. Do you want to carry it?
LELA: Yes. My bag!


MAMI: Lela, honey, it's really heavy, can I help you?
LELA: NO! My bag! Lela bag!


MAMI: I know, Lela, but it's really heavy. Can I help you carry it?
LELA: No! No! No! Lela take it. Lela bag!


[Conversation lasts at least 10 minutes. Forward progress of approximately 4 inches is accomplished.]

Umm... can anyone say 'stubborn'?!?!?

Breathing treatments!

So, the little cold I'd had for a while got a whole lot worse this past week. By Wednesday I was having a hard time breathing, so we went to the doctor. Turns out I have bronchitis and bronchiolitis (yea, I'd never heard of that either, but you can read more about it here if you want). The good thing is it wasn't pneumonia, but I have to do these breathing treatments until I'm all better.

Lucky for me, I kinda like them!

I'm already feeling better, too, so hopefully I'll be back to normal in no time.

Happy birthday and a half to me!

It's hard to believe it, but I turned 18 months old today! Yes indeed, I am a whole year-and-a-half old! I've been pretty sick the last day or so, but I rallied and found a smile or two for Mami to take my pictures.

(And yes, I am wearing an unsnapped onesie over my clothes. Don't ask, I prefer not to talk about it.)

A special visit en route back to Florida

Driving back home, we made a stop in South Carolina to visit our friends Maleah and Ashlyn. Their mom and my mom are friends from grad school, but we'd never all gotten together. So it was nice to have the four girls in one place.

We got to play in their wagon, go to the playground near their house, and have a picnic in their yard. How fun!

And of course we got a group picture to document the occasion - a blogworthy event, of course!

Fun and adventures on vacation

Everything we did at Nana's was so much fun, and so many things I never do regularly. Did you know Nana has a horse? His name is Piper and we got to meet him! I was a little scared, but he seemed nice.

At the barn where Piper lives there are all kinds of cool animals to see, like rabbits and cats and these goldfish. No, silly, not the kind you eat! The kind that swim in ponds!

But speaking of goldfish, it was soon snack time.

Yummy goldfish. And yes, the kind you eat this time!

Resli tried to help me eat my goldfish. It didn't work so well.

She's funny!

Oh look, a cat walked by - very distracting!

Later that day we went to a neat park and playground. I went sliding. You know I like slides by now, right?

And Resli and I played on this dinosaur, too.

The coolest part, though, was the stream. I could have spent hours and hours picking up rocks and throwing them in the water. It was great!

(The water adventures ended due to the intervention of some icky nature, check Resli's blog for details on that one!)

How's that for just about the best vacation ever?

Pursuing my scholarly interests

But don't worry blog fans, my vacation wasn't all fun and games. I continued to pursue my loftier interests. We went to the library, for example.

Where I got a couple good books that I quite enjoyed.
  
I also worked on my architectural skills with Nana's wonderful blocks.

And Mami gave me a little piano lesson (which was really interesting since she knows only "Heart and Soul" ...).

So see, we had a lot of brain-activities going on too!

Hangin' out in western NC

I normally lead a very busy lifestyle at home in Florida, so it was nice to just get away from it all for a while. I spent a lot of time at Nana's just chillin'.

We did go out and explore a bit too. I enjoyed the great weather and beautiful surroundings.

I also got to be quite friendly with Ollie, Nana's little dog.

Kiss, Ollie?

But of course the best part was spending time with my Nana!

My first road trip!

In my 18 months of existence, I've traveled a fair bit (Minneapolis, San Francisco, Denver), but always by plane. This past weekend we took my first car trip - a 450 mile drive to Nana's house in North Carolina. We rented a minivan so we could go in style. 

We started off ok, coloring and playing.

But I quickly grew bored and resorted to other forms of entertainment.

Luckily, we stopped for lunch and I got macaroni and cheese!

Then we used the restroom at the restaurant and they had this super cool seat for me to sit on (trapped) while Mami helped Resli. Neat, huh?

One lesson Mami learned on this trip was that fresh chocolate chip cookies are not good cartrip snacks!

But mess or no mess, Resli and I soon gave up our fight and took a little nap. 

It was a looong drive and we were so glad to arrive!

The name game

I'll have a water, please.

I have discovered the joy of our in-door water dispenser. (Daddy loves it too!) Sometimes Mami remembers to lock it so I can't do what you're about to see... but sometimes she doesn't!
So I grab a cup, any cup will do. Then I head over to the fridge and serve myself up some fresh cool water.

Sometimes I even get some in my mouth then!

But more often than not, I get it all over me. And the floor. And the rest of the kitchen. (Note the water dripping down the fridge door in the background...)

What? I tried!

A glimpse into my dinnertime fun

These videos are from a couple weeks ago, but Mami forgot all about them. (It's been kind of busy around here lately... end of semester and all.) I actually talk a whole lot more now even than I did then, but we thought you might like to see my developing conversational skills.







Anyone know what Resli's chanting in the background? Is it Hebrew?