15 Months and Pictures!

The months are flying by now. Here are my 15 month stats

20.5#
27.25" (when you are below the 1% you count every quarter inch)
teeth- 10 plus 2 more molars coming in
word count- 5. My new words are uh-oh and dah-Gee (doggy with a hard G sound). I also make a great bark sound.
motor skills- running everywhere and starting to jump and stomp
food- Still love it all. Current favorites are blueberries, pears, mango, strawberries, and the quinoa/spinach/pecan/avocado mixture mom and I eat every day for lunch
fav toys- dogs and buckets or purses to put all my favorite rocks in. When I can't find one, I use mom's shoes instead. Rocks fit well in them.
sleeping habits- Mom looks like a zombie because I wake up every 2-3 hours again. When will she learn and give me back my neocate

And I finally have all the pictures from the three cameras. We will start with the Qualls annual crawfish bowl that happened in May and continue to the present.

Creepy little guys. Yes, I am wearing the same 3 month outfit Ms. Traci got for me last year. The new one should be a great fit next year.

Really, I prefer dogs to crawfish

Michael's graduation that I wasn't invited to

But I got a picture and didn't have to sit in through the hot ceremony. Score!

Lots of park days now. Mom rides me up every night and dad joins when he's home

This is my ride. Appropriately called the charriot

Ready to go with mom

Dad drove me once last week. Notice the bottle rack of the bike. In case Ms. Traci showed up at the park he was ready for happy hour

Even Hayley can't turn down the opportunity to hang with me

Just in case you wondered if I could wink

don't I look fast!

mom's favorite park picture to date

The serious look

And my fav... the doggie pictures. I love Sparky

Seeing if she would invite me in

Not sure why she looks scared to see me

Maybe the boys want to play with me

These boys surely do

Or maybe I just need my blankie

So glad mom finally got her act together and got the pictures in order. I was a  little later than I had hoped with this post but hey, life happens. In California now. I hear we may get to see Alcatraz. How cool is that? My 7 year old cousin wants to see real people in the jail. Are you kidding me? I think the historic, old, empty jail sounds perfect.

Hope you are enjoying your first two real days of summer

Cheers!

alexa

Overcomplicated Photography

Mom's goal was to make photography easy and perfect so she could document the cute things I do in an orderly fashion. The real time results, however, have not quite materialized the way she had hoped. This has now led to the problem of how to manage 3 cameras, 3 computers, and 2 cloud storage servers. And the final result of this mess...I can't blog because there are pictures everywhere! Feels better to get that off my chest.  I will now work with what I  have to create this post which is mostly camera phone because they automatically upload. And I have given mom a deadline of June 11 to get her act together and fix this mess. I can't work under these conditions and put out a quality product. 

random easter pic I found

This summer is starting out great. It has been full of weekend trips, lots of family and friends visiting, pool time, and great weather.  I had heard that early summer was the best time of the year and its true. 

Michael graduated on May 14. We have a great photo of it on another camera...go figure. The generic cake shot doesn't have quite the same effect. 

We had family and friends over to celebrate graduation and see Hayley's dance recital. There were 15 people sleeping at our house. No pics of that one but not a hard mental image to compose. 

Other things I have been up to so far include jeeping to the top of the bookcliff mountains

No one trusted me out of my carseat so you have to look hard to find me

amazing view and that tiny line below is I-70

I got to go to my second crawfish boil at Miss Traci's house. Pics to follow in next post- I promise

I have been very busy taking care of bitty baby. Here is her bottle

Putting her in the stroller

Off we go

A few of our neighbors have pools so that is where we spend most hot days

dive practice in case anyone drops goggles

For anyone wondering if Im losing any of my baby fat...ummm, no

You may be wondering why there are no cute close up pictures this time. I mentioned earlier these were the camera phone shots and that camera cannot keep up with me. I am fast and shifts any time my feet are on the ground. Just as soon as I hear the autofocus of any camera set, I run in a different direction- usually laughing. Think Top Gun when the fighter jets try to avoid missile lock from enemy planes in the sky chase. So it now takes a real camera and a photographer ready for action. 

At my last appointment, my metabolic/neurodevelopmental doctor was concerned that I was unusually hyperactive because I did not stop moving/running/jumping the entire time. Although he sees kids 0-3 years old all day long, mom thought he was crazy. Being true American parents, mom and dad like to consider me energetic and free spirited vs out of control.  In the past 3 weeks they have been around multiple kids my age and Dr. E may be on to something. But can you imagine how chubby I would be if I ever sat down??? 

cheers!

alexa