Ode to our Family - from Mom

Happy Fun Family,

I value you with awesome respect.

Teach me to laugh, play.

Believe my love,

Feel Safe.

I'm Brave and Wise.

What time is it???

it's potty time!!

(BYO-BM...and TP...get it?)

Chow Time!

Dinner - one of my favourite times of day.

(other favourites include

breakfast,

secondsies,

lunchtime,

snacktime

and nuk time in my bed)

Our Smokebush

A work in progress

We have working very hard as a team to 'beautify' our front yard.  

As I like to say...

"It's coming along nicely.  

Right on, Daddy-O!"

Blankets and Book-ends

This is a picture of the quilt mom made for me.  It was made with love and comes with a story.  Here's how we tell it.

When I was growing in mom's tummy, she started knitting squares of all different kinds of wool.  Mom says she only knows how to knit in straight lines, and little squares are not overwhelming to think about making.  Mom knit and knit all the squares, then started putting them together as a quilt...but then I was born and mom says life got kinda' busy.

Mom didn't work on the quilt for a long time, until this spring when Super-G was so sick.  Mom says she needed something to do with her hands, so she pulled out the quilt and started knitting like crazy (she gave me my own knitting to play with too, which is neat).  

Mom finished the quilt just after Super-G died and she says it is a "Blanket of Life's Book-ends"  because she made it while I was growing and while Super-G was dying.  

I don't really know what that means but I love my blanket and I love my mom.

I am still a Book-Worm.

Mom assures me this is a good way to be.  

She says I am in good company.

I have many tricks...

Including...MAGIC TRICKS!

Watch closely and I will make a rabbit appear out of this hat... 

Okay, abra-cadabra...

Now I will check under the hat to see what has appeared...

Uh-oh, it's not working.  

Let's see...how to save face and wow my audience...? 

Another abra-cadabra...

...and I have made a 2.5 year-old trickster appear!!

Watch out Criss Angel, David Blaine, Houdini...

...I'm on to you!

Cuddle time...

Cuddle time with my mom is precious time.  We whisper secrets and sing songs together and make up silly rhymes.  It's great.

It's fun to be me. We have good times.

Heads Up, Dad!

Father's Day, 2009

Love you Super-G.

Pics from the Zoo, Zoo, Zoo!

Sleepy Sea Tortoise

Enormous Elephant!

Dressing up with Abbey Cat

Grandma and Grandpa got me a great new toy who I have named Abbey Cat.  She has pants, shirt, coat with hood and shoes that I can take on and off.  There are all kinds of buckles, velcro, zippers, buttons, snaps, ties and other things for me to practice.  Cool toy.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young, Sick Lass