Iowa, here I come!

Here I am on my first airplane ride to visit my great-grandparents in Iowa! I thought peaking over the plane seats was sooo fun. (too bad for the people that used them next, they got a hair-full of slobber :)).

Here I am, ready for take-off. Mommy was really nervous about flying with me since Daddy wasn't with us, but I did SOOOO good! I didn't even cry or anything!

And Mommy gave me my sippy cup to play with which was double fun. I just got this sippy cup and it's my new prized possession. We miss you Daddy-O!

Day at the Park

Today Mommy took me to the park where Daddy proposed to her almost 5 years ago. Look at me standing up :) - I pull up on everything I can get my hands on and can cruise around furniture now too.

And here I am in a big boy swing. I wanted to go higher but I couldn't convince Momma.

The wood chips were a new sensation for me - I wasn't so sure about them but it was fun to explore.

And here's my friend Freeman swinging in a big boy swing too. He wasn't so sure about it but was a good sport.

And here we are together, just shooting the breeze and enjoying the day. (I'm enjoying it a little more than Freeman whose mommy forgot a hat and sunscreen for him :) - but Freeman was a good sport about that too)

I'm a P90X baby!

Tony Horton, eat your heart out! I am FASCINATED by Mommy and Daddy's chin-up bar.

Sometimes I sit on the floor and look wistfully at it wishing they'd hold me up there so I could get my work-out in.

It takes some concentration as you can see above, but I hold on SO TIGHT that once or twice Daddy has let me just hang there by myself (ready to catch me at any moment, don't worry) until Mommy scolds him because she's worried about me pulling my shoulder out of socket.

The best is when I get high enough to suck on the bar. Heavenly.

Recently Mommy and Daddy got to a new video on P90X where they had to do one-handed push-ups. I'm just showing them here that one-handed workouts are no biggie, and you can even smile while doing them.

I'm learning!

I'm learning new things every day, and last week I learned finally how to get my whole body under the coffee table. The problem, as you can see, is that I'm not aware that my rear is hanging off the side, and this inevitably leads to a backwards fall unless I am rescued in time. It's a small price to pay for the accomplishment, though.