Little Linus

Here is a picture of me with my two most favorite things! My "water" (milk)cup and my blanket. This is my very favorite blanket that I sleep with every night, sometimes I carry it around the house too, but Mommy says it has to stay in the house so it doesn't get dirty or lost.

New Bike!

Uncle Niclas and Uncle Marcus gave me this great tricycle for Christmas, I didn't get to try it out until today because it rained Christmas morning, and Mommy slipped and fell in the afternoon and had to get checked by the doctor to make sure the babies were ok (and they are just fine!)
So today we took it out, and I got to lead the way to the park. It sure is hard to steer and keep your feet on the pedals at the same time!

"LUCAS" choo choo

Mayes gave me this really cool choo choo for Christmas, I LOVE it, it is really long and works on the tracks I already had. It gets annoying though when Mommy and Daddy try to take over and play with it, by putting all the cars in the order THEY want...something about it saying "LUCAS" but I think my order is better.

Christmas lights

Mayes and his Mommy and Daddy came with us in our car to go see the best lit houses in Santa Rosa...This one was awesome! We really enjoyed all the lights and moving displays.

Christmas Traditions

This is one of Daddy's favorite Christmas traditions, lighting the angel candles. Its sooo neat...Daddy explained that the heat from the candles make the angels swing around and tinkle the bells!

Riding the choo choo

I really liked the choo choo train at the photo studio!

Helping decorate the Christmas tree

Can't you tell I'm helping? Who else was there to be cute? Its an important job, and somebody has to do it! I really like the Christmas tree, the lights are so pretty and I have the coolest choochoo ornament with MY name on it!

Catching up

Ok I've been bad, but its been really hard work taking care of Mommy, she's doing fine, but needs lots of help. Here I am ice skating for the first time! We did this when we went to grandma's house to visit them for Thanksgiving! BTW I post date things so Mommy can remember when things happened instead of just when I got around to blogging.

My new friend Kevin

Kevin came to visit me just before we went to Grandma's for Thanksgiving...he was lots of fun!

Real Cowboys don't wear hats!

I was a cowboy for Halloween. We had lots of fun at the Harvest Party at church where I won lots of games and prizes! I didn't like putting on this gettup very much, but once it was on it wasn't so bad...the things a cowpoke has to do in a days work!

pumpkin patch

I know its been a while but I've been very busy taking care of Mommy, she's been feeling sick with the new babies. She has been feeling better now though and she and Daddy took me to this cool pumpkin patch. While this isn't the one I picked out, it was the biggest one I could pick up myself!

"it's a good thing I'm cute"

Mommy says this to me when I do something bad, I'm not sure what she means...but I think she's right :)

Brothers or Sisters or both, oh my!

That's right! Mommy has 2 babies! Here are the first portraits.


These pictures were taken a week and a half ago and show 2 baby sacs.

Then today, Mommy and Daddy went and had more pictures taken.

They even have names! The one on the top is "Baby B" and the one on the bottom is "Baby A"! Mommy is in her 10th week which means these babies are 7 weeks old.

Back from Sweden

We're back from Sweden, and boy is that a long flight! At least I slept a good bit on the plane.

In Örebro, I met my great-grandfather (my Dad's Dad's Dad).

Here's a picture of all of us:

Leaving on a jet plane...

Tomorrow, we leave for Sweden. I'm visiting my great-grandfather (gammal farfar) and my dad's aunts, uncles, & cousins.

This will be a great chance to practice my Swedish!

Nice t-shirt

I still don't know what the surprise was all about. I'm wearing a t-shirt Daddy got on his birthday. It's neat!

Daddy's Birthday Party

Daddy's Birthday was today. Mommy had a big surprise for daddy.

I can't figure out what the surprise was all about...

Yeah Balloons!!

You get an extra freebie picture since I'm trying out a new way to put pictures on here...Here I am congratulating a balloon on sucessful lift off (personally, I wasn't sure they were going to make it!)

Wheee!

I am quite the trendsetter at playgroup...I "invented" going down tummyside down and now its all the rage!

Hot Air Balloons

What a difference a year makes! That was me at last yeat's balloon classic...what was I thinking, sleeping through it all??? Well, at least this year I wised up! Sorry its been so long since a post mom and dad have been really keeping me busy!

chipped!

Take a close look at this picture and you'll see that I'm sporting a new grin...with a chipped top right front tooth! Boy did I give Mommy a scare when I tripped in the bathroom and the toilet bit me! I cut the inside of my top lip too, but a yummy popsicle made it feel much better..no stitches luckily!

Handsome Boy!

Here I am sporting my new stylish hairdo, Mommy said she was glad it was still so curly! I'm not sure what all the fuss is about!

My first haircut!

Mom decided I was looking a bit shaggy so when dad said he was going to get his haircut, I got to go too! I'm not sure what they were doing up there, but I had a yummy lollipop and a red hotwheels car so it was ok by me!

Sarek, Where are you?

I think Sarek went this way...

Look out Mozart

As you can see from this picture mommy has me following a rigorous piano practicing routine...every day I play and play until my little fingers are tired to the bone! Soon she said we have to start writing down the music I create.

Rain Rain Go Away

Today was a very rainy day, we had to stay inside most of the day but mom did finally let me out to play. I put on my new rain boots and off I went! Its so much fun to splash in the water! I got very wet as it was hard to walk in those stiff boots and I fell right into the water!

Da! (translation: duck)

Da! Da! That is what I'm saying as I point out the Ducks to you in this picture. Not to be confused with Da! (translated: ball). It's all in the inflection (kind of like Chinese). Mommy and I went to a really neat park for playgroup called the Superpark. I can tell why they call it super...its HUGE and it has DUCKS we could feed. I liked to eat the bread too...I don't see why the Ducks get to eat it all. I liked all the baby ducks too! I was so tired after climbing up and down and all around at this park, and sleepy after eating all the bread crumbs!

Beach front property

I think mommy and daddy made a great investment decision when they decided to upgrade to beachfront property. I'm loving it! It's great for entertaining. Mommy and I throw the best impromtu beach parties, all my friends love it!

Da! (translated: ball)

I love Sarek's toys. They really grab his attention and he'll follow me around everywhere! Right now I use 2 words consistently. Da (ball) and Ts (kitty). I don't understand why it took mommy and daddy so long to understand me!

Riding My Trike!

I know, I know, I'm cheating on the date...but I wanted the date to reflect when the picture was taken not when I put the entry up, daddy got a new computer and he didn't have it all set up for me for a while. Anyway, I had a super trip to Chicago! It was so fun to play with Uncle Kelly's hotwheels and ride the tricycle with Auntie Becky! She likes to go FAST!

Easter

I had a lot of fun celebrating Easter this year. Grandma sent me a cool hot rod easter basket with lots of yummy goodies inside...Mom had been keeping the good stuff like raisins away from me! We also did an easter egg hunt at the park, but it was so crowded I didn't even get one egg!! But we had another egg hunt over at Stephen's house and I found lots of eggs there...all filled with yummy goodies like animal crackers and cheerios!

Nap time

We went to the San Francisco Zoo with Aunt Francine while she was here, all the playing with the goats and ducks really tuckered me out! I was looking down at a duck one minute and the next thing I knew I had been sleeping for an hour!

Aunt Francine Visits!

I had so fun with my Aunt Francine. She taught me all sorts of cool things, like how to give a high five, how to make indian noises with my mouth and the sign word for eat! She liked to play with me and made riding in the car a lot of fun! I wish she could stay here with us!

Eating my Cheerios

I like Cheerios. So when Mom turned her back for a few moments, I just went and helped myself.

Look Ma, No Hands!

I'm walking! I can make it abou 10 steps now...but I'm improving more and more each day. Before Mommy knows it I'll be running all over the house! I can't wait to be able to go where I want to go not just where Mommy or Daddy will take me!

I'm sick!

Some days are like this, I have a 101 degree fever and its dark and rainy outside. Mommy and Daddy are doing what they can to make me feel better.

Like getting me to drink my fluids...

Portrait

Mommy took me to get this portrait taken today.

Favorite outfits

This is just one of my favorite outfits to wear, I get lots of compliments...Grandpa likes to tease that I sat on a bug...silly grandpa!

It's My Party!

I had a bunch of my friends over to celebrate my first birthday. It was a lot of fun, we all played with all my toys, and then Mommy made these yummy cupcakes for me to eat. All the babies liked them too! I liked all the doggy stuff, pawprints on the cupcakes, doggy music and balloons too! I can't wait to go to Grandma's house and party some more!!

A Sign of Higher Intelligence

Mom says I'm already showing signs of higher intelligence! I must be a child prodidgy! She said just ask Auntie Becky and she'll tell me all about how sticking your tongue out when you are concentrating is directly correlated with an IQ thats off the chart! I do it quite a bit so I must be a genius!

Reaching new heights

I've broadened my skills of locomotion. I can now climb all the way up the stairs. Mommy keeps trying to make me crawl down the stairs, but I know a faster way... :)

Now we have a big metal gate at the bottom of the stairs. But, mommy still let's me climb sometimes with her help.

Horse Riding

I got this fancy picture taken at the studio for my 11th month birthday.

Giddy-up!