Western Carolina competition

This past weekend the band traveled out to Western Carolina University for big time competition. Daddy and I drove up separately from the band Friday night and we stayed at hotel by the university.

The room was pretty long and I got to crawl around back and forth until I fell asleep.

Saturday was an early day, the band's prelims performance was before 10a! I thought they did pretty well, they're really starting to play their show with a lot of excitement.

The rest of the day was a bit of blur with naps and crawling around the area behind the stands and trying to stay out of the sun. I did a pretty good job getting my clothes dirty!

The band ended up not making finals, which was too bad, maybe next time!

My own excitement came as Daddy and I were getting ready to leave to come back home. I was playing in the grass by the car when I fell into Daddy's legs. He thought I hit my forehead on his leg and picked me up to ease my pain.

But really, I hit my mouth and was bleeding. Mommy saw the blood and got worried that I busted a tooth. But I had all my teeth, so that wasn't it. Daddy got one of the band moms (thank you Ms. Roberts!) who's a pediatric nurse to take a look and it turns out that little thing that connects my upper lip to my gum got ripped a bit.

She told Mommy and Daddy that this is somewhat common and that I'll be okay in a few days - boy was that a relief!

Maybe a little too much excitement to end the day.

Some more videos

These 2 videos are from last June, I've been pestering daddy to post them for a little while now and he finally got around to it! Yay daddy.

And while I got you here, don't forget there's now less than 27 days until my very first birthday!

Anyhow, enjoy the videos!

A new era

Today was another step in the process of mommy and daddy losing any moment of peace with me! This morning I explored my way out of the Family Room and into the hallway of adventure.

Daddy followed me of course (he got some video too, should be posted in a day or so) so I didn't get into any trouble or anything, but I did find the door-stopper thingy and boy does it make some cool noises.

I also helped dust the floor with my crawling, so daddy had to change me into another outfit. Daddy says I need to let you all know that I'm not really crawling, but mostly pulling myself around by my arms. Semantics I suppose - either way, it's pretty tiring after a while.

But boy oh boy, no more sitting still for me, if there's something that catches my eye, I'm after it. So mark this day on the calendar - June 29th - as the day I began exploring on my own!