Camping at Whiteside

Dear Grandparents,
This week was the last in my swimming series. I got to ride the slide with daddy, it was more fun than with mommy, because she dunked me at the end :(

After my nap Mommy, Tok and I headed out to meet Cale, Kait, and Chuck for some camping...


Cale was really excited to see me and show me things he found around the campsite.


Chilling by the fire waiting for Daddy to arrive...


Nomming some pita,


Hiking with Daddy,


Family portrait,


Daddy sugar raining down on me,


Must keep hydrated!


This is a video of me just flapping my lips at my mommy and daddy.

In other news I have decided that "dada" had the shine wearing off of it and decided to switch it up with "nom nom." my mommy will try and catch a video of it this week. On Sunday Grandpa Marc is taking me to my first baseball game, go Rockies!

To all of my grandparents,
With love,
Leif

Dunkin' Cute Britches

Dear Grandparents,
This week didn't see any big events, we volunteered to register voters on Saturday, I drew in tons of ladies ;) The rest of the week was pretty quiet, we were supposed to go camping but we got to the site and it was soaked with snow looming on the horizon so, we hightailed it out of there. We are going to try again next weekend with Cale, Kait and Chuck.

Since there were no big events I decided to provide the entertainment for the week and started crawling!

I also figured out how to pull myself up against my mommy or the couch.

Saturday was swim lessons again, this time my daddy came with us :) It was a lot of fun splashing around and I did much better when it was time to dunk.

After swimming we had to rinse all that pool water off of me, my faux hawk is getting long!

After that I cashed out...

The rest of the weekend I practiced my sitting, standing and crawling with daddy :)

Whew, this week was a lot of work! 

To all of my grandparents,
With love,
Leif

Harken Ye! Harken Ye! Grand Lords and Ladies of my Lineage...

Dear Grandparents,

This week the highlights had to be swim class and the Renaissance Festival. At swim class we started dunking. I am not really sure about it yet. Hopefully it won't scare me as bad the next time I try it.






Here are Mommy and I before the dunking commenced...

I was trying to figure out why all the other babies were hitting the water so much, when...

Hey, why are you all singing and going in a circle, oh shit...this isn't gong to end well, is it? 

Well there you have it, the latest in what has been a series of events that are supposed to be good for me or enriching, but when viewed from the vacuum of experience in which I exist, seem much like "enhanced" interrogation techniques.

My parents must have felt bad about the whole partial drowning thing and so they took me to a Renaissance Festival down in Larkspur.

 

First stops in were a flower tiara for Mommy and a drinking horn for Daddy's mead. 

I got to snag this wicked hat, it drove the ladies wild the rest of the day!

On our way out the queen spotted me and requested an audience with my cuteness. My mommy, being an obedient wench, acquiesced to her request ;)



To all of my grandparents,
With love,
Leif

Where I meet my first fairy and get curious about grass.

Hello Grandparents!


This week started slow...worked on my fine motor control,










...practiced standing with some help,








...had my first swim lesson (for which my mommy asked me to apologize to you all for the distinct lack of photographic evidence, my dad had to work so we will have to take some next class when we practice dunking).

On Sunday Daddy went golfing so mommy and I cruised on down to the People's Street Fair on Capitol Hill in Denver.




It was amazing, so many talented artists, organic do gooders, and regular old hippies. When it got a little hot we camped in the shade in the center of the fair a d watched the people go by. I got my first feel of grass and decided that it was okay to sit on but...









...not so great to lay on ;)














These are giant metal animals that moved, very cool!




'Tis a beautiful thing to have a fairy sing of seeing the sky in your eyes :)


To all of my grandparents,
With love,
Leif

No phone, no cable, no truck, no Alaska?!

Dear grandparents,

This week has seen a lot of changes around our house. My mommy got rid of her iPhone (that leaves me with just an iPad, oh woe is me ;), we dropped our cable service which means no more 24 hour news (I miss you Contessa!), and we traded in the truck I came home from the hospital in for a smart car. Whew, and that was all before Wednesday! I won't get to ride in the new car until my carseat is forward facing, but Tok has already been out in it.

 
 This picture is of me in my new cart cover. My mommy thought that as long as I am sitting up, pretty much on my own, that not lugging the carseat inside sounded sweet. Then on Wednesday we went to see Cale and Kait for the morning. Cale gave me a truck to play with when I first got there, well it might have been a little above my pay grade because I ended up whacking my face with it and giving myself a scratch. Mommy decided that a wooden train car was a much better option for me, but she thanked Cale for trying for me.



I also got to hang out with daddy while mommy ran errands, we are thinking of starting a band.

And that is about when the week fell apart for us. We were supposed to go to Alaska to see some of you grandparents, but fate, the fickle witch, would have otherwise and we missed our plane. My mommy and daddy were really upset, it was too much for me to handle so I stayed quiet and then fell asleep in the car on the way back to the house. The next morning I was wisked off to the mountains for some impromptu camping. It was great! I really enjoyed being outside and slept like a log all bundled between my parents on Tok's dog bed (they forgot the pad to sleep on, but remembered the dog bed, go figure). The rest of this is the camping pictures, enjoy!

Rest Stop!

Mommy enjoying a pre-hike bee, then a pre-hike pee and a water chug ;)-

Daddy and I at the trail-head.

On the ascent...

Mommy and Tok attempting a climb at 11,000 ft...I think Tok's face says it all.

I loved my first river!

Getting to this island was fun, Daddy had to walk over a log bridge by our campsite!

I was mesmerized by the fire...

My newest noise is really more of a bbbbbbppppppptttttt, that looks like this when caught as a still ;)

See you all next week!

To all of my grandparents,
With love,
Leif

Shots...lame...

Dear Grandparents,

Here is a video of dad and me playing in a half pipe. I am pretty sure that by the time I am old enough to grind this myself it will seem tame thanks to my hyperactive pops!

I got booster shots on Tuesday. I don't know if you are familiar with this medieval practice of shoving a piece of metal into your muscle and injecting, what I am sure is liquid fire, into it. I know I just got here, but seems to me like someone would have invented an alternate delivery method. Just because we have no words doesn't mean that it doesn't suck! I tried to stick it out, but I only was able to smile through the first one, the next two really hurt and that scared me, but it wasn't so bad because my mommy was there and I was able to calm down and give that nurse a good scowling before I left ;)



I have been focusing my mat time on building up my core strength, I am really hoping to be crawling by the time I get to Alaska so I can really wow all those grandparents.

Whew! Wednesday night was wild! My daddy had to go to Aspen for work, so Mommy invited "Aunt" Kait over for a mommies date. We rocked out until I finally passed out at 9:15! Wow that was a long night. I also got to "watch" the Sound of Music for the first time, I really liked when Mommy and Aunt Kait song the songs to me, it made me squeal with giggles!


These pictures are from our walk on Saturday. We went to the Bromley Creek Park. It was a nice walk and sunny.


I got my first mosquito bite that afternoon, grrrrr.



I am really starting to get the hang of getting food to my mouth!




On Sunday we met our friends Kelly and Kaela at the pool. It was way fun but super chilly! I think my mom is going to have to get my skinny tush a wetsuit before we start lessons in June. Kaela offered me a ride in her star floaty and I managed to fail around enough that I was propelled toward Mommy, she was so excited! When I got too cold, my dad took me over to the hot tub and held me above the warm water until I stopped shivering. The rest of our day was pretty lazy, just hung out at home, but I like that too :)

Love,
Leif