Cool summer vids

Summer Daze

I've been a busy boy the last 2 months.

Family Vacation: After my last post, my Gramma, Auntie Julia and cousin Paul came to visit. We all went on vacation together at Alderbrook. I had so much fun. Gramma bought me my first water wings and I loved to swim in the pool. Auntie Julia brought me a cool bowling set and cousin Paul gave me his cool flashlight for walking around at night! I fished, I ran, I played tackle football. I love my family for coming to see me. And I miss them already.

Bye plumes, hello apples. No more plumes but I've been very helpful picking apples from our tree. And, mama baked us pies!

Scootin' along: Jack loaned me his helmut ("emut") and taught me to ride a scooter. Now I have my own scooter and I even wear my emut on the tractor.

Soccer is over. It was so fun. My favorite part was diving into the goal, which you're not supposed to do. Today, gymnastics started. This is tiring! But I learned the log roll!

And, I went to my first state fair. We pet horses and saw rides and lots of other animals.

Plooms

We have a new fun tradition at my house- picking up "plooms" We have a big tree in front of our house that has lots of them growing, hundreds of them! We've had neighbors knock on our door to ask if they can have some and today we made new friends as we passed them out to people walking by. Daddy took me this weekend to pick them up off the ground. And, today Mama took me outside to put them in a basket to share. I said "pick plooms outside" and she knew exactly what I wanted! It was so fun because Iris our neighbor came over. The plooms fall on her yard and she and Mama decided to share the fruit because Iris watered it when it was tiny for the people who lived here before. Iris picked me up and I got to pick some which was so fun. And then she played a funny game where we pretended they were balls. Then Iris took me around her yard with the hose so I could water her plants and I thought it was so funny when I sprayed her with the water! Then me and Iris went in my backyard and I showed her my somersaults. And, then she came over with a hot baked Apple Pie for me! Here are some pictures of our plooms and some pictures of me with Iris.

Pretty soon we'll have Apples and Grapes! And, I'm a great fruit picker!

Hot!

This is one of my new favorite words. And probably because its been hot everyday! This is me playin' with the hose to cool off. Mama thought it was funny to spray me, and so did I!

I love a parade!

I went to my first parade! It was in West Seattle. Here are some photos that Mama took. We saw pirates and clowns- my first time to see both. I got to eat a lollipop and mama bought me this huge green monkey. I had so much fun but then slept all the way home in my stroller.

This is me with my lollipop that mama didnt want me to have. Then it fell in the dirt and I was sad. This is me wearing my first button. And this is the cool monkey. And my nap home.

To the zoo!

Today I went back to the Zoo and we did some really cool stuff.

- I fed a Giraffe! I got to hold the branch real hard while he licked and ate the leaves off it. Do you know they have 7 bones in their neck, have an 18" tongue and weigh almost 2,000 lbs!

- I fed a bird today. Well, mama did. She held a stick in one hand and me in the other and we watched him eat real close to my face. He was yellow, a little Australian bird.

- I watched the Penguins eat fish! I was there when they had dinner. They were so cute they were diving into the water and chasing eachother.

We forgot the camera or else I'd post some proof.

Dave!

I think I have just figured out that Daddy is also called Dave. I like to yell "Dave!" as loud as I can with both hands around my mouth. Sometimes he even yells back!