My directorial debut

Someone handed me the camera. This is what I created.

My first airplane ride

Last week, Mama, Daddy, and I went all the way down to Florida to visit Daddy's grandparents and my Grandpa Gary and Grandma Vicky. It was quite the eventful trip. First we had to fly on an airplane, which I had never been on before so it was kinda scary. We left really late at night, so I just slept pretty much all the way there. While we were there we did all sorts of things. We rode on a boat over to a really pretty island, but I slept the whole time we were there. Mama and Daddy collected a bunch of shells for me to play with at home. They're really nice, but sand keeps falling out of them so I'm a little bit afraid of them. I played around with everyone a whole lot. They have a really good house for crawling and learning how to walk. They also have a fireplace and had fires going a few times so I got to stare at the fire, which I absolutely love to do. Everyone tells me that it's hot, but I just think it looks pretty. I think my favorite part of the whole trip was going swimming. Here's a video of me showing off my super fantastic swimming skills.



On the way home I decided that I wanted to stay awake for the whole plane ride. I really wanted to walk and crawl around, but there wasn't any room. I ended up just squirming around on Mama and Daddy's laps for the whole five hour flight. They were kind of annoyed, but I had a blast. Overall I think it was a fantastic trip and I am so glad I got meet my great-grandparents. They were really nice and Mama and Daddy say we might go visit them again somewhere called Maine. From what I hear it's colder than Florida.

Mama's going to put up more of my videos and all of my pictures from Florida on my photo website pretty soon, so be sure to check them out there.

I love to swing!

I am the smartest baby ever!

OK, so probably not, but I am pretty darn smart. First, my biggest news. I finally have a tooth...sort of. It's just barely sticking out of my gums, but it's there. It's sharp and it hurts but I'm glad it's finally here. Holy cow that was a long wait. Next, my second biggest news. I have a new best friend. Baby Lemon, whose name is officially Naomi James Roberts, was born on New Years Day (at 12:32 in the morning). I've already been to see her twice and she's awesome. She cries sometimes, but it doesn't bother me. I just scream at her. That's pretty much what I always do. It's not a mad scream, just a "hey look what I can do" scream. It's pretty funny. I did a really good job at being gentle with Naomi for the most part. She did have this awesome blanket I really wanted so I tried to grab it from her. Mama was scared that I had scratched her eye out, but I was careful to not hurt her. I just really wanted that blanket. After Mama and Daddy held Naomi they decided that I am growing too much. She weighs like 1/3 as much as I do so she apparently makes me feel gigantic. I think I'm going to ask her to marry me when we're 25. We're hoping that by then it'll be legal in this state.

My other biggest news (there's a lot this time huh?) is that I can officially crawl. I started about two days before Christmas because Grandpa Great Fiedler said I couldn't come down for Christmas unless I learned how to crawl. He's funny like that. I sure showed him though. Christmas morning was awesome by the way. I got tons of new presents and I got to play with my favorite cousin Henry. I got to crawl all around and everyone thought I was really funny. In the afternoon Mama, Daddy and I went over to Mimi's house for dinner. It was a little crazy getting to her house and we had to park at the bottom of her driveway because of the snow, but we made it there in one piece. I got more cool presents there too. I got a great activity table to play with when I go to visit her. I think that Uncle Jared liked it more than I did though. He found out that if he put it on Spanish and pushed the same button over and over again it really annoyed Mimi. We all thought that was funny. I also got a really fantastic White Tiger from Uncle Jared that is my new favorite toy. I need it to sleep in my crib every night or I cry and cry until I get it. When we were all done we had to try to get home and it was a bit of a disaster. I was tired and crying the whole time and we kept getting stuck in the snow. Mama even had to get out to push the car a few times. Eventually we got home so I could sleep though. Overall Christmas was great and I can't wait for next year.

Since then I've done a lot of standing and crawling at my house. I like to do crawling laps around the kitchen and hallway. I also like it when Mama chases me around the house. I love knocking down towers that Mama and Daddy build with my blocks and I've started to like playing by rolling a ball back and forth with them too. I think I'm going to work really hard on learning how to walk as my next trick.

My trip to Whistler

OK, so I went to Whistler a few weeks ago and haven't told you all about it yet. Sorry about that, but I've been busy getting ready for Santa to bring me tons of toys. The plan was for Grandma, Grandpa, Mama and I to drive up to Whistler to visit Auntie Sue and play all day in the snow. That's not how it happened though. First of all, Auntie Sue was down on Vancouver in the hospital, so we only got to stop by to see her for a few minutes. That made me really sad that she wasn't on vacation with us. After we visited her we went up to the condo all by ourselves. It was really pretty, and I was really excited to be out of the car. All the snow I was supposed to play in was actually rain though. That part was also sad. We all ended up having a lot of fun though. I even got to go in the hot tub because it wasn't really very warm and Mama thought it would be OK. It was fun and the bubbles were really interesting. We did a lot of shopping (for me!) and walking around. We also went on what was supposed to be a sleigh ride, but ended up being a wagon ride because there wasn't much snow. I really liked the horses and even got to ride up front with the people who were driving for us. It was so exciting. I think that my favorite part of the whole trip was the fireplace though. It was so pretty and I loved looking at the flames dancing around. Overall it was a really fun trip, but we were all really worried about Auntie Sue. Luckily, after a bunch of time in the hospital and a bunch of work by her doctors, she's back home now. I got to go visit her at her house last weekend. It was really fun and I liked watching it start to snow from her balcony. Between then and now it has been so cold it's driving me crazy. Mama and I haven't really been doing very much because she doesn't want to drive anywhere. We've been going on walks around our apartment though and I think the snow is really weird. It's cold and wet and I don't really like it. The only place we have really been going has been to swimming lessons. I was the only one there for the last two weeks, and I really liked that. I started kicking really hard and moving my hands around in the water like I'm really swimming. Mama won't let go of me to swim on my own though. I guess she doesn't trust me. Maybe it's because I kept trying to put my face under the water and getting it up my nose. The best part of swimming was flirting with the lifeguards. They're pretty cute and I like to make them smile. Don't tell my Daddy though or he'll be mad at me.

As far as learning new stuff, I'm still working on getting better at standing on my own. I haven't taken any steps yet, but I'm working on it. I'm not really crawling yet, but I am flailing around to get myself where I'm going. I'm pretty efficient about it even if it's not very graceful. I've started talking a lot more, but I mostly just say "Da Da Da" over and over again. Daddy thinks I'm saying DaDa, but I'm not sure if I am or not. I like that it makes him happy though.

Be sure to check out my new pictures on my picture website athenaluccio.myphotoalbum.com