My trip to New Hampshire - part II

Here's some more about my trip to New Hampshire. On Sunday, we drove out to Nashua to meet my Uncle Jim and my Aunt Sara. I think I said before that they had come over to visit me on Thursday night but I was asleep already and I missed them. What a bummer. Anyhow, they just bought a new house - their first house! Everyone was pretty excited to see it but I was more excited to see my Uncle Jim. Here's a picture of us:


I know its kinda blurry but it was my favorite picture. Here's a picture of me, Mommy and Uncle Jim in his new driveway:


After we had seen the whole house we went to lunch in downtown Nashua, which was only a few minutes from Uncle Jim and Aunt Sara's house.


I wanted to eat too!


Then on Monday Mommy and I flew back home.

My trip to New Hampshire - part I

Whats up everybody?? I just got back from my trip. It will probably take me a few days to tell you about it, so here goes!

So, on Thursday Mommy and I went to the airport. Daddy came with us to the airport but he stayed there while Mommy and I went on the airplane. We had two exciting moments before we even got on the airplane:
1. Mommy forgot to bring my birth certificate which she needed to check me in for the flight! Luckily they let me go on anyway.
2. When we went through the security checkpoint, the lady asked Mommy if she had any liquids, and Mommy said 'No'. The lady pointed out that Mommy actually had a) a 16 ounce bottle of Diet Coke and b) a 32 ounce Nalgene bottle filled with water. Oops! So Mommy and I ran through the airport to catch Daddy so he could bring those back home with him.

Anyhow, by the time we got done with all of that it was time to get on the airplane. We got to get on first and Mommy got to bring my carseat on even though she didn't pay for it. There were some extra seats open. Here's a picture of me on my first airplane trip!


You can see that Mommy gave me my special naptime blankie and my special naptime pacifier because she was hoping I would take the hint. I did!

The next day we went to Vermont. I'll show you those pictures another day.

On Saturday, we went to Mommy's friend Melissa's house for her baby shower. She has a Studs right now, except she doesn't call him Studs. I don't know why not. Here's Mommy's friends Matt and Melissa holding me, the practice baby:


I got to meet a lot of other friends who read my blog. Here's me and Laura:


...and here's me and Mrs. T. She's showing me her doggie! (I got to see LOTS of doggies this weekend, by the way):


I didn't get a picture of myself with Matt and Alicia. They also have a Studs on the way and they want to make him a blog when he comes out too! I can't wait to read it! I'll even put a link on my page.

The party was fun! I took a nap in my pack-n-play for part of it. For the rest of it I got passed around to everyone. I smiled a lot and had a good time!

Anyhow, today has been a long day so I'm going to end here. I'll tell you about the rest of my trip later!

Airplane!

I took my first airplane trip yesterday! Mommy and I flew up to New Hampshire to visit everyone. I was very good so I think Mommy was happy. We met another Mommy and her child at the airport and they flew all the way to New Hampshire with us too. On the first flight I slept a lot and on the second one I sat in my carseat and played with Mommy. Then when we got off of the plane, G-G and Sky King were there! Uncle Jim and Sara came to visit me last night, I hear, but I was sleeping so I didn't get to see them. Its hard when you're a baby and you have a really early bedtime! We're going to see them at their new house on Sunday.

Today Mommy and I drove out to Vermont with G-G and Sky King. It was pretty neat! We went to a place where they make glass. We saw them making some glasses and we had lunch! Well, everyone else had lunch. I sat there and chewed on a pamphlet. Mommy had some Vermont cheddar cheese soup that she has also made at home. But she was bummed that they didn't have the white chocolate mousse cake today because it is GREAT. She has made that at home too and everyone always says its the best dessert they've ever had. You can make it too if you go here.

Anyhow, I'm getting off track here. We came back home and got to meet some of G-G and Sky King's friends and neighbors. This all really wore me out, so I'm going to hit the pack-n-play. Talk to you soon!

Two tricks

This is the video I was watching the other day. In it you can see me do two of my tricks:
1. Rolling! This isn't a new trick though. I've been doing this for a while.
2. Using my tongue to make new noises! This one I figured out this weekend.


A whole bunch of noises from meandertail on Vimeo

UPDATED: I forgot to add that another noise you can hear on this video is my Daddy snoring. He was sleeping on the couch right behind us and he slept through ALL OF THIS.

A few pictures from this weekend

This weekend I did a few other things other than being King Grumpypants. Lets see...

First, Mommy, Daddy and I walked around our neighborhood and the one next to ours. It was yard sale day (or garage sale day, as Mommy calls it). Mommy spent $17 and got:
4 outfits for me in the next size up
5 workout DVDs including Winsor Pilates
and this!


A backpack carrier! She paid $4 for that. It was a pretty good deal. Daddy ran the purple part through the wash and it looks good as new. Daddy said it was a lot easier to carry me in this than in the Baby Bjorn because I'm getting so heavy.

The other thing we did, like I said, was go to a baseball game. Before I got all grumpypants, I got to try to grab another one of Daddy's beers.


This other thing didn't happen this weekend really, but close enough. I am getting a lot better at sitting up all by myself!


Mommy has to GET me into the sitting position obviously. I'm not that good. But once she gets me there I can stay up for a while on my own. Here's a picture of me doing it today. You can see Mommy's leg is sort of behind me - she curls it around me a little bit to sort of "spot" me and keep me from toppling over completely when I start to go. But she doesn't have to help hold me up all the time anymore.

They call me Grumpypants

Today I was totally grumpypants. Mommy and Daddy took me to another baseball game for Daddy's work picnic. Again, I wore my baseball outfit and my Red Sox hat. But we had to leave before the game even started because I was grumpypantsing all over the place. There were a lot of people around and it was loud, but this doesn't usually bother me much. Maybe it was the teething (I'm getting the other bottom front tooth right now too - it is about halfway broken through!), maybe I was tired. When we got in the car I SOBBED all the way home! I didn't stop until we got into the garage and Mommy took me out and held me. And then I went to bed about half an hour early.

King Grumpypants!

Watching stuff

Today Mommy and Daddy and I were sitting in the den. There was a bunch of stuff to watch. First, we were watching out the window. There were bluebirds flying in and out of the bluebird house, and we also saw a woodchuck/groundhog (Mommy didn't realize that these are two different names for the same thing! Silly Mommy!) walking around behind our house.


Then I was sitting on Daddy's tummy watching a video Mommy was playing on the computer. It was a video of me! I have to say, I'm a pretty interesting baby to watch. I was making some new noises in the video. Its a new trick of mine. Maybe I'll put the video up tomorrow so you can watch it too.