My bracket

I have participated in my very first March Madness! Mommy and Daddy helped me fill out my bracket. They suspect that my choices are heavily influenced by States I Have Heard Of, Words That Are Fun To Say, and My Favorite Sesame Street Segment (Murray Has A Little Lamb). So... Cornell, anybody?

Catching up

Mommy's been on the wards for 8 weeks (boo!), so we're all a little behind. But now we'll catch up!

Mommy has never knit a sweater before, but you'd never know from how good this one looks! Mommy presented it to me, along with a matching hat, and I said, "I don't like it!" Here I am wearing it because Mommy bribed me with cookies and TV. I still won't wear the hat, though in December I finally decided I'd wear the pumpkin hat mommy made me for Halloween. I have a very strong fashion sense and mostly wear shirts with baseballs or basketballs on them. And red, I like red.

This is my baby doll. His name is Baby Liev, or sometimes Alex or Eddy, depending on which of my two best friends is on my mind. I can feed him water in his baby bottle and then he can pee it out on his potty! This is fun, and water-pee usually goes all over the floor. I myself have a huge aversion to the potty. I throw a tantrum if anyone mentions it. This will be awkward when I go off to college and am still wearing diapers.

Happy belated Valentine's Day! I got a tattoo from one of my friends at school. It says "Friends Forever." Woo! I look so hard core.


Next post: catching up on videos!

Busy Weekend

Friday was Mommy's departmental bowling party. I did an awesome job of bowling.



















Actually, it's only 6 pounds, upside-down. But I'm still sooo strong!

Check out my spare!


Then, on Saturday, I went ice skating for the first time! On a real pond! At the end of the season. On ice that could really have used a Zamboni. But I did it!



















Tenney Park in late February



And Sunday we did boring stuff like errands. I have no pictures of those.

I went to Arizona and Mommy finally remembered to take pictures

In early January, Mommy and I went to Arizona to see the Wilson side of the family. Helen and Damian and I all got to spend a lot of time together and played so much! Jane had to go to school but we still got to play together a bunch.

Jane lost a tooth!We all had fun with the Zhu Zhu Hamsters Nanna got us for Christmas!

Helen and Damian and I went to the Desert Museum with Mommy and Uncle Sean. There were snakes! (...and gila monsters, and lizards, and scorpions, and javelinas, and mountain goats, and otters, and hummingbirds, and lots of other desert fauna and flora!)

There was prospecting! (We found quartz and pyrite!)We got to be paleontologists!We had snacks!We were so tired afterwards.

Mommy and I went to the indoor playground to see Diana and Sasha. Sasha is so big now!

Aunt Ethan took me to see her horse Mystic. I was a little shy at first, but eventually I was brave and pet her. She was soft.

We also ate Mexican food, went to the playground, and wore T-shirts in January. We had a very fun time!

The Family Band

I organized it myself!



P.S. Mom and Dad, Oberlin wants its degrees back.

It Snowed

Remember that day last month when a foot of snow got dumped on the Midwest? Mommy and Daddy both got a snow day, and we made the most of it! Not that I would agree to get on the sled or anything.

Holidays

Decorating for Hanukkah

Mmmm, latkes!

Note: the rest of Hanukkah was not documented photographically as Mommy and Daddy decided I was big enough to help light the menorah, so spent most of their time keeping me from setting fire to the house.


Then, we got to celebrate Christmas, too. So many holidays! So many presents!

I was super sticky after my very first candy cane.

What's Christmas without cookies? And a dog to accompany your cookie baking with overly loud drinking?