the start of the fall season has been so crazy in the hermann house. mostly because we haven't been in our house, but rather traveling the country from coast to coast and getting sick in between. i just went to see the doctor for the third time in a month today and was told i have a double ear infection that the antibiotic they put me on last weekend didn't curb during the week. but tonight i'm sleeping soundly while mommy nicely puts up these pictures for me (i told her what to say before i went to bed). they aren't in good chronological order like i asked, but here goes, the best from the last month:
reading with daddy yesterday
with gigi in oregon
i know it's a dark picture, but you have to see that we had so much fun together, feeding each other pizza, me trying to snatch her glasses... and i say gigi with no trouble at all, in fact, most older women with grey hair are now "gigi"
even with all the fun, i was not too keen on getting my picture taken in any posed way with my gigi. here's one attempt where we used books and i sat with mommy and i still don't look too pleased.
this is when we were leaving oregon to fly home and i really wanted to get down and run around some more before they trapped me on the plane for many many hours.
enjoying a cool morning outside auntie ann and uncle michael's house. mommy and daddy were so busy trying to capture a moment with me and gigi that they didn't take any pictures of me with auntie ann and uncle michael. this was not intentional they say. i had a fantastic time in oregon even with the time change, general crankiness from flying so far, and a fever and building ear infection. i can't wait until mommy and daddy take me there again.
hugging conrad in indiana
sitting in the same high chair stacy sat in when she was a little girl at granny's house, having just finished a piece of cake for conrad's and pops's birthdays. i cannot resist rubbing food in my hair, it is just too pleasureable...
feeding the birds with pops early one morning
the best part about all the flying is that mommy and daddy let me eat just about anything while we're traveling. like an entire ziploc of cheerios! and i've gotten really into the whole "sit in a chair by myself like a big girl" thing as of late. all i have to do is say "sit, big girl" and they give me my own chair with lots of room to spread out!
i am so smart, i can read upside down.
at seventeen months, books are pretty much my favorite toy. not actually reading too much of them, but rather pulling them out, spreading them around the floor and then looking at a picture or two from each, the whole while asking "read please, read read" to mommy or daddy or whoever is around. then i listen to about one or two pages and close the book so i can move on to another one. and by the way, i don't say please because i think it's important, or because i know what it means, but only because mommy taught me that the best thing to say when you want someone to read to you is "read please". that's pretty much the only time i say it, and for me it just means "read now".
and this last video is right after i started learning how to play my recorder, but of course by the time mommy got the camera, i didn't want to play anymore. i love doing that to people, don't you?
thanksgiving at home, mommy and i read "always sprinkle pepper in your hair" by shel silverstein as a lighthearted approach to the thanksgiving reading round
auntie mere and uncle ric
grampops and auntie mere
i love having other people wear my "airbows" but i refuse to wear them myself
thanksgiving eve dinner
i carried my ciao bella purse for the first time since we were getting really dressed up
18 months old
hard at work with grampops on the computer
playing the keyboard at my music class halloween party
so many instruments to choose from
eating the sugar cookies i made
tasting flour
decorating the cookies with daddy
riding the carousel at the zoo
another great shot of me with that personal pie grammy helped me make
baking pies with grammy
at the pumpkin patch
gourds!
