Happy Birthday to Me!!!!

It's that time of year, it's that time of season, it's time to celebrate! On October 18, I turned 1 year old. I had a smashing birthday party if I do say so myself. In honor of my love for clocks, it was a clock themed birthday party - from the clock invitations to the clock party favors, from the toy clocks to a clock cake. Awesome! (And for you Noah trivia buffs out there, notice the clock is set to 7:21 - the time I was born. Isn't Oma clever?)


We started out the evening with a little seafood at Backwater Jack's. Lots of family turned out for the shin dig - see Oma and Opa and Aunt Rita!


Down at the other end of the table was Great Grandma and Grandpa G and Uncle Mikey!


Dinner was nice and all, but the best part of the evening was definitely when we returned to the condo to open all of the presents. I got all sorts of fabulous new toys! I was in absolute heaven! Eat your heart out Geoffrey the Giraffe!



Here I am hanging with Great Grandma and Grandpa G!



Oma helped me test out the "playability" of all of my loot. We deemed everything up to par and play-worthy!



Next was cake! Or is it a clock? Cake? Or clock? This is so confusing.



Hmmmm...



A spongy moist interior. A creamy sweet exterior. Pretty, pretty, pretty good. I sure do like these birthday parties. Everyone sings, gives me toys and feeds me cake. What's not to like?



The sensors wouldn't allow me to include the "dirty" pictures that followed. The end to this story is pretty predictable - bathtime. But there's always more cake next year!

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Florida in October - Part II

Mom may be a little bit country, but I'm all rock and roll!

While in Florida, Mom and Dad ventured off to Key West for a couple of days, leaving me behind. Normally I might have protested such an oversight, but I got to spend THREE WHOLE DAYS with Oma, Opa and Uncle Mikey. I think Mom and Dad got the short end of the stick on this one. But here are some photos from their travel anyway...


Mom and Dad at the southernmost point of the continental U.S. Closer to Cuba than to the U.S. mainland. Say what up to Fidel for me.


Here is the mallory square event. The real attraction is the sunset. Mom and Dad apparently saw jugglers and magicians and a dog that could walk on two ropes suspended about 5 feet in the air. But that's nothing. Scout can go 5 feet in the air with just her tongue!


They also checked out the butterfly conservatory. Apparently it was an amazing experience!






Mom and Dad took in the Truman house and the Hemingway house. Here's Dad in front of the most famous cat's water dish. Hemingway "borrowed" this men's room urinal from the old site of Sloppy Joe's and put in his yard as a water trough for his collection of polydactil pets! We are thinking of copying this concept with a toilet from the Saucer for Scout and Toby.


Finally, back to me. I'm all ready for my swimming lessons!



Me and Dad at sea. I'm the captain and Dad's my first mate.


This afternoon was made even better by the presence of Oma!



And even better yet with the presence of Opa!


Stayed tuned for more. The next post involves some serious party scenes - about as rockin' as a 1 year old's birthday can get!

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Florida in October - Part I

Hi, folks. Here's my new post. As promised last time, I went down to see Oma, Opa, and Uncle Mikey in Florida!
Here I am hanging (literally) with Mom at the zoo.


Here I am with Dad. We took a little boat ride around the zoo. We saw lots of different kinds of monkeys. And all this time I thought I was the only kind of monkey.




Here we are with bigger game. He really doesn't look so scary, does he?
The only other big game we saw on the trip was a Delta stewardess who wouldn't give me the time of day, if you can imagine that.



It was particularly hot and humid the day we went to the zoo. We were all pretty worn out by the end.


Here I am back at the house enjoying one of my favorites - mac and cheese!








Here I am playing with one of the dozen clocks at Oma's house.


All of this blogging has worn me out! But, stay tuned. I've got enough photos for one or two more posts.

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Another bedtime story...

You guys are always catching me in my P.J.s!


At least I'm bathed and sweet smelling now!


Aren't I am absolute angel? Of course I am!!!


Here we are again getting ready for bedtime. Nowadays I help Mom and Dad figure out the wildlife in my big book. I am particularly fond of the tiger and the butterfly!


There are so many cool animals in this world!


Hey, look! It's a kookaburra!


And I'm wild for the little pink pig in the farm animal section!


OK, fast forward to a morning scene. It wasn't as rough a night as it looks. I sleep though the night like a champ, but waking up is hard to do. Poor Dad, he might need to sleep in more than me!



Yep. It's the a.m. Look at that digital clock on the microwave, would ya? Did I mention my love of clocks, all kinds and shapes and sizes?


My old play center shut down for a whole month. But, alas, it reopened and I am back in the swing of things. We have a membership now and I went to the play center 4 times in the first week alone! I even convinced Dad to go.





Tomorrow I fly down to Florida to visit Oma, Opa and Uncle Mike. Mom and Dad are tagging along. Look for a whole bunch of fun Florida photos in the coming posts. Later Dudes!

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