Yogoatee

Now we know what BLT will look like with a goatee. That is, if it is made of yogurt.

AKA, what happens when you leave a toddler unattended with a bowl of yogurt.

Masseuse Training

Okay, what do I do?

I get it!

Now I need some, too!


Thank you to my professors of massage therapy, Aunt & Uncle!

Light

One of BLT's new favorite words is "light." Here he is in the car this afternoon after I pointed out the light on the ceiling to him. I turned it on and off which really got him excited!

We had a really nice evening. We all walked over to dinner at a local restaurant. I was worried that it would be too late for BLT, but he was great. He ate a whole banana, almost an entire glass of mango lassi, and had several bites of Vietnamese dumpling. Then he had fun playing with a paper airplane we made out of a magazine insert card and going through my wallet. I hope I didn't lose anything! He then ran (not walked) all the way back to our house... that's 1/2 mile! Bedtime wasn't until 9PM then, but he was sure in a good mood all evening!

The Boys

Aren't they cute? Daddy laid on the floor, so BLT did, too! Tough days at the office?

BLT helped me bring in the mail and then the trash cans today. I tried to get a picture of him helping with the trash can, but it wasn't easy! He can't hold it up by himself, so I have to hold on at the same time.


Now that the weather is getting better and it's light out later, BLT doesn't want to go to bed! He didn't go to sleep until 8:15 tonight. We've been spoiled with an early 7:30 bedtime for so long.

Mommy, You're so funny!

I'm hilarious. My captive audience finds it just oh-so-funny if I look up at him from beneath the highchair under the tray.

Tonight I reached the pinnacle of my cooking-for-toddlers career. Tonight's appetizer was carrot mini-muffin (courtesy of BLT Sr) on our grocery trip, followed by a main meal of pesto, avocado, cheese and turkey crepe. Sadly, only two bites of crepe were sampled despite BLT's love for this crepe from the crepe spot at the mall. A side benefit, however, was BLT Sr. and my dessert of lemon crepes.

I wanted to go to the fabric store after work. I asked BLT if he wanted to go shopping an he said yeah and even climbed into his seat with no crying! Wow! To get to the shop I wanted to go to, we drive our usual way and then pass our street without turning. Well, apparently BLT did not mean it when he said he wanted to shop. When we passed our street, he panicked and pointed to our street and said "go." Who knew he knew where we lived?!?!? So we didn't go to the store, we went home and made do with a walk over to the grocery for the crepe ingredients.

Oh, I've been on hiatus from blogging. Too tired. Still recovering from our trip last weekend ...

Put me in the Zoo!

We visited San Diego over the weekend and had a great time! Here we are at the Wild Animal Park with Cousin JT and Uncle JK. It was such a relief to be somewhere where it wasn't raining all the time!

Bedtime Routine

Hmmm... it looks like Dropshots cuts off the video at 2 minutes. I'll have BLT Sr. upload the full clip (maybe even at better resolution!) to our website on Monday or Tuesday of next week. We're off to San Diego to visit Burli and family for the weekend!

I Was Running

Naturally, we have started BLT in track workouts.

Hahahaha.

No, this is from this weekend when BLT Sr. & I were doing a little track workout. BLT sr. would run his 400 and then I would do my 300 during his rest period and vice versa. We tried to get BLT to run along for our cooldown.

On the go

BLT relocated all stuffed animals from his room to a pile in our room before bed. All at top speed, of course.

BLT was wearing a dress up costume when I came to pick him up today. We took it off and I told him to put it away and sure enough, he went and found the box for dress up clothes and put it right away. Then I said it was time to get his lunch box and he emptied out his whole cubby (even though I told him we really did not need to take his sheet & blanket home today). It was all very cute. Then he was a real pain and would not get in the carseat for 15 minutes. Arg. Oh well.

LegoWorld

Birds eye view of Lego Table Gone Wild.

We had a nice weekend. BLT tried his first sashimi last night. He really liked it! He had hotate (scallop) with tobiko (fish roe) and hamachi (yellow tail). He had almost a full slice of hotate! He also had some omlette and quite a bit of carrot and sweet potato tempura. I guess the way to get veggies in him is to deep fry them! He dipped everything in some soy sauce on his plate.

Friday night, BLT had his first fish sticks. I got out the box and he got so excited. It was very strange because he'd never had them before! When I got the bag out of the box, he got even more excited and went and got out one of his plates and brought it over to me. He was very upset when I wouldn't give them to him and put them in the oven instead. I had to turn them halfway through and that caused more tears. Once they finished, he could hardly wait for them to cool! They were a hit! (Dipped in pizza sauce, of course!) BLT Sr. was so proud.

I just got a sewing machine, so I wanted to show off my first project. I'm making bags to hold BLT's toys, since most things have more than one pice. This is the first one! It still needs a cincher thing to close the drawstring. I added a tag so he would know what toys go in there. This one is for "car wash."

Blog-tastic

Video Sharing at DropShots.com

Even BLT likes looking at his blog!

Check our our website to see some more video of him rocking out to his alphabet magnets.

Bathing Beauty

BLT had his official weigh-in and measure today at the doctors. He clocked in at 26lbs and 33". The weight is questionable because they had him stand on the scale himself fully clothed. It read about 26.5 lbs, so I guess the nurse just subtracted 1/2 lb for the clothes. The height is also questionable, especially since they got him at 33-1/2" last time! This time they tried to make a mark where his foot was and one where his head was on the paper covering the table. There was no real effort to stretch him out, so it's probably a bit on the low side.

He's doing just fine and is very healthy. The only thing is he has eczema and some other bumpy bits on his skin. The ped said is all the same thing, basically really dry skin. We try very hard to keep him extra-moisturized and put a little hydrocortisone cream if he's itching a lot. It comes and goes, but sometimes he scratches a lot.

Build-A-Moo

I was so excited that BLT was finally old enough to enjoy Build-A-Bear. We were at the mall when they opened on Saturday so we went over to check it out. BLT picked out a cow. Well, he also picked out a dog, then the cow, then a dog... we already have a stuffed dog, so we went with the cow. Then we picked out a cow sound box to stuff in the foot. The next step in the Build-A-Bear process is the "stuff-me" station. They stick the floppy animal onto a nozzle and you step on a pedal and the stuffing is blasted in to the animal. Okay. This was a bad moment. Poor BLT. He was terrified for his cow. He cried and cried. As soon as he was stuffed, he gave the cow a big hug. He barely loosened his grip enough to get the cow stiched up (they just pull the laces tight and cut the end off). We then picked a name out for the cow - "Moo." Not so original, perhaps, but BLT doesn't mind! Moo even got a free guitar on our way out - just like Daddy!

Moo and BLT are already fast friends. Here is BLT and Moo reading with Daddy. He brought Moo in to our room this morning and I could hear him moo'ing all the way over from his room!

Oh, and something funny - BLT is really into beards right now. He has the Little Golden Book Bible from Great-Grandma and he loves to look at the beards in there! Then we stroke our chins and he says "beer."

18 months old

Has it already been another 6 months in my baby's life?

BLT has now reached that point where we count his age in half years instead of months. At least, I think so. He is developing his own little personality and sharing more of it with us. Books are by far his favorite things. He also loves his family of stuffed animals. Just this morning, I had to hold bear, cow, cat and dog while reading a story. He loves to eat fruit, all kinds of fruit. He also loves yogurt and crackers. It's hard to find other things for him to eat, although anything goes down easier dipped in a little pizza sauce. He likes to give kisses and hugs now. He likes to make animal sounds and is adding new words all the time.

I took him to get his picture taken this evening. Wow! It was tough to get a shot. He didn't want to stay on the backdrop. Then we gave him some blocks and he was too busy putting them in and out of the big block prop to look up. After that, he kept going back to the blocks even when we moved them away. He also had fun taking basketball shots with a small soccer ball that they had. With all that effort, we did manage to get a few good ones!

Google-Eyes

I showed BLT how to make goggles with your hands during dinner. He thought it was hilarious. I tried hard to capture his version on camera, but he moved every time I got the camera up! Finally, Daddy caught this one:


We're all tired tonight because we did our 2nd 5k this morning! I finished in 28:05, just after BLT and BLT Sr. They could have gone faster, but were nice enough to wait for me. It was the San Jose Mercury News 5/10k - there were about 5 or 6,000 runners. That's a lot of people!

Edited to say my official time is 27:59! That was with the timer chips, so it should be pretty accurate.

Busy Day

Here's a play-by-play of our evening.

First we stopped at Toys R Usto get BLT a new inflatable bathtub. He really wanted a giant ball. I also wanted to get him some new sand toys, but when I asked him if we should get them, he said "no." So we compromised and got some small balls.

Next was dinner ... see picture #1
Two glasses of rasberry Kefir (small glass with straw)
One scrambled egg with sauteed green bell pepper - refused completely
1/2 meatball with spinach and pizza sauce
Water in adult-sized water bottle picked out of cupboard while Mom was cooking

BLT and I went to Whole Foods last night to grab some dinner and picked up the Kefir. From Kefir.net:
"Kefir's tart and refreshing flavor is similar to a drinking-style yogurt, but it contains beneficial yeast as well as friendly 'probiotic' bacteria found in yogurt."
Turn's out BLT LOVES it. He also loves yogurt, so it's not surprising. I did get the fruit flavored one. Next I will try the plain and see if he likes that. He loves plain yogurt, so maybe!

Then we inflated the bathtub. BLT was quite the little helper. He just laughed and laughed when I pumped the handle up and down with both our hands on it.

After that, BLT decided he needed the Boo-Boo Bunny. We used it last weekend and he must have remembered it. I don't think he had an actual Boo-Boo. The bathtub inflating was not that intense!

Then it was bath time, running time, and then bed time! Of course, we found time for a book or two somewhere in there.

An update on the transition: It's been going really great after that first not-so-good day! No crying at all the last two days. He will be in the new class for the entire day tomorrow. They must have been doing some sort of painting today because he had several different colors on his pants, his shirt and even his undershirt!

Baby Picasso

BLT was inspired by cousin JT.

Day Two of visiting the new class went much smoother. He only cried on the way over there and not at all while there. He was there for two hours today and will stay tomorrow for lunch.

Laundry Detail

BLT likes to make sure all his dirty clothes get into the basket, all the way. He's even started doing mid-undressing runs to the laundry basket. I missed the basket with his long sleeve shirt, but got the onesie going in! It's hard to keep up with him these days because he is in a perma-run.

BLT is moving up this week at daycare. It is tough. He spent 1 hour in the new room today and his teachers said he cried and didn't want to go. It was surprising because he is generally one of the happier kids. He is also getting more demanding. One teacher was doing flannel board stories today and after the 1st one, BLT needed a diaper change. He didn't want to go and miss the 2nd story, so they had to convince him that would wait until he got back for the 2nd one. "Mor, mor"

He also wants "mor, mor buhk" before bed. Finally, I had to cut him off tonight. He was already half asleep!

The Menagerie

It takes a village to read a story. More specifically, it takes 1 dog, 1 cat, 1 giraffe and 2 bears. Plus, 1 mommy and 1 BLT. Cat is hidden here, but if you look closely you can make out one of her stripes between the dog's leg and the giraffe's head.

Stinky Feet

BLT just laughs and laughs if you say "Who has stinky feet?" and then give a sniff and pee-ywee face. I know, it's silly, but it's fun!