A New Perspective

These days I frequently find myself viewing the world from a new perspective.

I love to have my picture made and then look at myself on the camera.

CHEEEESE!

OH REALLY???!!!

unsuccessful photo shoot with Lizzy

Year and a Half Old!

We celebrated my 18 month birthday on Wednesday.

Our friend Chris was in town, and we met him at The Hard Dock Cafe for dinner. Thomas was also there and joined us for some drinks. The Hard Dock is our very favorite restaurant! It is a casual bar/restaurant and set right on the Tennessee River - perfect for relaxing, watching the sun set, and just enjoying life!

I had fun eating goldfish and feeding them to the fish.

what a truly amazing sunset

My First Real Haircut

After a few attempts by family and friends to clip my mullet in the back, we decided it was time for me to get my first official haircut. We have an old family friend who is now cutting hair in Hartselle. Lucky for me, Mrs. Courtney is GREAT with kids, and I had a wonderful time with her.

I was very uncertain and clinging to mama in the beginning.

They tried to get me to wear this silly cape - like I was getting ready to fly or something.

I would have nothing to do with it!

Mrs. Courtney had Elmo playing on a dvd player at her station, and she gave me a popsicle.

Eventually, I warmed up to the idea and decided everything was going to be just fine.

I even got to play with a pair of scissors and pretended that I was helping.

smiling for the camera with my "big boy" haircut

awwww.....shucks....You girls have got to stop carrying on about my good looks. I'm getting a little embarassed.

Buried in the Sand!

I'm not too sure about this.

Ok....now this is fun!

Let's see what happens when I lean back.

It's been fun, but now it's time to get out of this itchy, sticky sand.

Yeah! I'm so proud of myself!

Let's see just how deep that hole was.

Family Vacation

I just returned from a week's vacation at Grayton Beach in Destin, Florida. I went with Daddy, Mommy, Gigi, Nana, Aunt Kathleen, Uncle Charles, "Grandaddy" Craig, Aunt Cat, my cousin Andrea and her baby Dylan, and my cousin Briana. Our house had 8 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, a swimming pool in the backyard, and it was one block down the street from The Red Bar.

Riding in my wagon to the beach was one of my favorite parts of the vacation!

I had a wonderful time running up and down the beach and playing in the water. The water was crystal clear all week, and my family did lots of snorkeling. We did have to deal with jellyfish a couple of days and had a couple of shark sightings. That was awfully exciting!

I had an absolute blast playing in the sand!

Aunt Kathleen taught me how to build sand castles with my buckets. Dumping the sand out was my favorite part.

Tuesday night we had dinner at the Hurricane Oyster Bar. It is my Daddy's favorite restaurant. We also ate at Cafe 331, The Red Bar, and D&K Cafe.

"Drumming" my lips is one of my favorite activities now.

I learned to say "please" this past week. It sounds kind of like peeezzz. And, I am now calling my blankeys by name - "bees".

Birthday Party

I went to Lillianna's birthday party last week. It was at Rhodes Ferry Park which is on the Tennessee River in Decatur. All of my little friends were there. It was very hot, but we didn't mind. We had a great time playing on the playground and eating pizza and cake.

looking at fish in the river with my Da-Da

playing in that good 'ole Alabama red clay

Lillianna and Sam playing with the presents

"Juice"

I have reached a very big milestone in the past two days. I can now open all the doors in the house! All of the handles are levers (not knobs), so baby proofing them will be much more difficult. I have had great fun getting into new places by myself!

Today I opened the pantry door and found the cooking oils.

Immediately I started saying "juice, juice, juice."

After explaining that it wasn't juice, mommy said that I had to finish my milk before I could have any juice. Not liking that answer, I smiled at her and turned the vegetable oil upside down attempting to pour my own juice.

a few explanations:

pink stains on my face = leftover beets from lunch - "mmmmm"

flip flops in the floor of the pantry = carrying them around with me after my mommy's refusal to put them on and go outside; still hoping she will change her mind after lunch

blankeys on the floor = I was carrying them around the house in a desperate search for my very favorite blue blankey. which is still missing!!!!! Have you seen it?

Rosie's

Rosie's is one of our favorite restaurants. It is located in Madison and has awesome Mexican food! Gigi took my mama and me last week. We had a blast!

Just recently I have discovered the joy of dipping foods. My daddy is a huge fan of condiments, so we always have some kind of "dipping sauce" with our meals. I will dip many different kinds of foods into whatever sauce I can get my hands on. Sometimes I like to lick the sauce off and dip again. The food doesn't always get eaten. Some think that is yucky, which is fine by me, because then I get my very own bowl of dipping sauce.

not too sure about that bite

TUCK!

Stuck is my latest favorite word. I pronounce it - "tuck." The first time I used it was when one of my blocks was stuck inside a toy. Since then I have found many other ways to use it - some applicable and some not. These days I am finding myself "tuck" very frequently in many different places. In these pictures I was saying "tuck" many times, because I couldn't position myself properly to get into the booster seat. I tend to get frustrated very easily and quickly.

Finally!!! un"tuck"