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!

Busy Mother's Day

What a busy day, we even had tornado warnings, oh my!

Mommy got back home very, very early this morning (so I heard, I was asleep) from taking her band to 6 Flags in Georgia. She said the band played very well and had a good time down there. But I missed her and I'm happy to have her back.

This afternoon we headed over to NoDa to get our pictures taken. The Light Factory was running their Shoot Out fundraiser this weekend and we had our session today. Our photographer, Susan Scott, was really neat, but I gotta say all those lights and flashes really discombobulated me.

But we had a lot of fun with all the different pictures. Susan did a great job with us and took a ton of pictures. I bet mommy and daddy will buy every one twice over (aren't I worth it?)!

Oh the rain though, it poured on our way to the Shoot Out and on our way back home. Then we went back out for dinner and it rained again but with tornado warnings tossed in.

But let me tell you about dinner. Mommy put a blanket into my car seat to keep my tootsies warm and later daddy flipped the blanket over my head and when I pulled it off, I grinned wide as a canyon.

Mommy flipped the blanket back up and said "Where's Elliott?"...I waited a few seconds and pulled it off with an even bigger grin. Then she flipped the blanket up again and I did the same thing. Everyone was laughing, I learned the game and it's so much fun!!

Then guess what? It rained a bunch more on the way home.

Next up: crawling, keeping checking back for progress.

Big Weekend

Mommy's taking her band to some place called 6 Flags in Atlanta (hey, I've been there before!) Friday. It's going to be our first night apart, so if you see her, let her know I'm just fine (but I miss her!).

My Grammer and Grandpa Wise are coming down Friday from Ohio. When mommy gets back, we've got to get pretty for a big photo shoot on Sunday. The Light Factory is running their fundraiser - the Shoot Out - and daddy's playing a part in it. We're gonna get a bunch of photos taken and of course I'll be the cutest one there!

The Light Factory

Tonight daddy and mommy took me out to a cool arts event. The Light Factory opened its River Docs exhibit tonight and it was crowded but really cool!

In fact, it was so crowded we started out looking at the Stray Shopping Cart Project, this is also a really neat show. Daddy and me have looked through the website a few times and I can't wait for my first real ride in a shopping cart!

River Docs was still chock full of people, which made it challenging to move around, so we're already planning a return trip. Daddy wants to try the touch screen display, it was mobbed with people so we didn't get a chance to see it.

We took some time to explore as many of the photos as we could get to in the gallery (did I mention it was crowded?) and my favorites were Raymond Grubb's. His photo of the tree on the floodplain between Lincolnton and Hickory really caught my attention.

There was another picture I liked of the bridge that's just down the road from where we live and it showed how the shoreline was changed by the drought. I'm not old enough to quite understand all that, but daddy was telling me how we try hard not to waste water these days.

So wow, seeing all those people hanging around was really something else, what a neat place. I can't wait to go back again and again!