This past week

Happy day-after Birthday to my cousin Luke, he turned 3 yesterday! Yay Luke!

Last weekend, Mommy and Daddy took a mini-vacation and I got to stay with the Connelly's. They put up this really neat pool but I wasn't so keen to play in it. Pools in general....just not my thing right now.

I'm good with the bath in our house, but not really anywhere else.

Bubbles though are a different story. Give me bubbles and I'm a giggly little dude for hours.

Just remember: what happens at Grandma and Grandpa's, stays at Grandma and Grandpa's.

Oh hey, just before last weekend, Mommy gave me one of her French horn mouthpieces and I was able to buzz through it - that made her day.

We tried a baritone mouthpiece too, but that's a little difficult, though I did conk myself in the head with it. Who knew it'd be so painful? Ouch!

She got a video of it I think, so we'll try to get that posted soon.

But um, I may have broken their camera, but it's their fault for letting me play with it, right? Am I right???

Anyhoo.

I'll close tonight with some exciting news - the photos from our Mother's Day session at the Light Factory's 2009 Shoot Out fundraiser are ready for you all.

Just click on the Pictures link on the right side here and then click on the "2009 Pictures" button on the page that pops up. There's 2 albums of good stuff. The first was by this great photographer who was approximating a photo booth. The second set is from a different photographer (his name was Jeff, how cool is that?!?!).

Enjoy!

Pictures Videos

Oops, almost forgot…

Four more videos have been uploaded to YouTube, start here http://www.youtube.com/TheWiseFamily

And we added a set of photos from Easter to the Shutterfly site (click on the Photos link in the right column). There's more photos to upload, but we need to put them all together in one place and get them uploaded!

 

Florida

Long distance message tonight as I'm in Florida right now! Mommy and I (and Grandma) flew down last Friday to visit Aunt Jessie, Uncle Todd, Alex and Luke. We fly back Monday.

Airports are fascinating, I couldn't get enough of staring out the window at all those planes. Once we got on the plane, it was fun to look out the window back at everything. The flight was pretty neat, but I fell asleep from the roar of the engines.

But the Captain and Flight Attendants gave me a pair of wings and signed a certificate commemorating my first ever flight - wow!

Alex and Luke have been fun to play with, Luke's been giving tips on what it's like to be a 3-year old. Well, okay, he's not quite 3 just year, he has a couple more weeks, but he's close enough to know.

Tonight I talked with my daddy on the webcam. He gave me a high five and I fist bumped him back, that was fun.

Well this coming week starts Summer vacation for Mommy and me, so we'll see what kind of trouble, er, fun.....yeah fun, we get into for the next couple of months!

Almost Summer

What a week it was. Daddy's car broke down last Tuesday and didn't get fixed until Saturday, but it was neat having him drive me and Mommy to school for a few days!

I got to spend time with Grandma last Tuesday and much to her consternation, I'm still not saying Grandma. Little does she know I'm just storing it up for the right time and then I'll blabber it non-stop.

Oh and so everyone knows, I did not hit my head (hard) this week, so the big bruised ugly spot on my noggin is just about disappeared. I can't promise what'll happen this week though.

This is the last week of school for Mommy and for me at Chesterbrook. I hear Mommy saying that I might go a few days here and there over the summer, but it's Mommy and Me time for the most part - yay!

And the end of this week, I'll be taking my first ever trip on a airplane. They fly over our house a lot and I really like to watch them, so this should be fun. We're heading to Florida to see Aunt Jessie, Uncle Todd, Cousin Luke and Cousin Alex....lots of fun, lots of fun!

Oops, too much fun, Daddy's gotta change my diaper now.....bye everyone.

Crocs

Before I forget....

My feet's are big enough (especially my Big Toe) to wear my crocs!

Weekend fun

This past Sunday, we traveled down to South Carolina to spend the afternoon with the Schillaci's. It was a beautiful day, almost too hot to stay outside, but I took some time to run around their new deck - it's big!

Like most places, it took me a few minutes to get used to my surroundings - well that and I napped in the car most of the ride down - but once I figured things out, I had lots of fun running all over the house.

Their D-O-G is big too. She barked a lot, but with Aunt Alicia's help, I hung out in her room and petted her a few times.

We had steaks for dinner, but for me I got to eat more corn-on-the-cob, I really like that stuff.

I napped on the ride home too which threw off my schedule, so I didn't get a lot of sleep that night (I made up for it with a long nap Monday afternoon).

Lake Tillery

Right after lunch today, daddy took me upstairs for a bath.....usually bath time is at night, so something was up. Turns out, right after bath time, we loaded up the car and drove out to the lake to see Grandma and Papa!

I should've slept most of the way there, but decided not to - much to the chagrin of mommy and daddy. After we got to the cabin, Papa took us out on the boat, well after he got the engine started.

I offered my help as much as I could and since I've not studied engine repair yet, the limits of my help is saying, "uh oh" when the engine wouldn't turn over. But finally it did and we pulled out into the lake and went cruising.

Mommy tells me I've been out there before, but I couldn't remember that. This time was fun with the water spraying on us at times. But the rain came by and before we could get back to land, we got soaked! Mommy bundled me up in coats and towels, but it was still wet.

When we finally got back to the dock, they took me over to see the Hamilton girls - Emery's a month older than me - and we stood around talking with them for a while. They seem like nice folk.

Later, after dinner, we went back and I got to play with the 4 Hamilton sisters a bit. There was a doggie nearby and that was sort of interesting too.

Finally, I wrapped up my long day by fiddling with the knobs on the receiver under Papa's television and suddenly is turned on loud as all get out and scared at least a month off my life!

Thankfully the ride home was uneventful as I slept pretty much the entire way.

Whoops!

Wow, it's been 2 months since I last posted, I'm sorry everyone. I'd say it was a busy time, but with my short memory, that might not be true. I do know I was sick in the middle of March and then mommy and daddy were too for a while.

Mommy's birthday was in April, that was fun. Then right after that we drove up to Ohio to see my Great Grandpa in Mentor (and my Great Uncle Todd, Great Aunt Kathy and cousin Camille).

This past weekend was Mother's Day and Grammer and Grandpa Wise came down from Ohio for the weekend - that was a lot of fun too!

Other stuff in between all that.....

My vocabulary is increasing everyday, why just today I was chirping the word "pizza" for dinner along with "applesauce" my first (and only) 3-syllable word. "Bubbles" is another standby for me along with all the usuals.

We've got some videos and pictures we hope to get posted on here soon too...maybe later this week!

80

Well today - Monday - was my 80th week since birth! Boy that's a long time, I just wish I could remember where all that time went. I mean I'm just now starting to string 2 words together, think of how much more I need to accomplish before I reach 100 weeks!

Boy, this daylight savings time has kicked me for a loop. I'm not sleeping well at all the past few days.

But wow what a wonderful weekend we just had. On Sunday, daddy and I went down to the creek behind the house, with the snow last week (which I did not like very much at all, thank you very much), the riverbed was flooded, but by the weekend it had all dried up with the sunny warm weather.

We walked upstream and downstream (daddy taught me those words!) and watched the water flow. It looks either some beavers or trash have clogged up one part of it. It was too steep to get up close for a real inspection and daddy didn't want to get me all muddy.

Later, mommy came out onto the deck and I showed her first-hand my outdoor voice....boy am I loud sometimes!