Fun with Dad

Melba Toast Mustache

Went to see Doc today for my 9 month check up, and everything is great! I am officially a healthy growing boy, and even better.... I get to start eating big kid food! Not just the mushy oatmeal. Doc says that I can have banana's, and cheerio's, toast... and even....TURKEY!

We got home to celebrate, but there were no banana's in the house... so dad gave me the melba toast, and with my good fashion sense I decided to decorate the dining room and make myself a melba toast mustache!

Happy Friday everybody!

Dudes in Red

I have my own secret door in the kitchen nowdays. Here is the only cupdoard door without a lock. When mom and dad are cooking up something good, I get to come and play in the cupboard. You should see all of the things that I can build and smack together.


Summer is winding down, but we still try and get out in the boat when we can. Mom digs her dudes when they wear their red hats, so dad and I had to dude up for her!

You should see me drive the boat with dad. I can drive r-r-r-really fast!

Dad and Dude

Happy Crawling Machine

I have been a verybusy boy crawling around the house lately. It is all mom and dad can do to make sure I am not getting into trouble. The house has new door contraptions that won't allow me to get into any cupboards, except for the Finnegan cupboard filled with all of the tupperware that I get to rearrange whenever I want to!

Stella and I are becoming very good friends. You can see me crawling right next to her, and pulling her tail, and grabbing her collar. I can even climb into her dog bed!

Stella!

I just follow that dog everywhere!

Everything I can find laying around the house goes straight to the chops.

Buddies

Hey! I found my mouse out of his house.

If you can't tell, I am really enjoying this crawling thing!

Play me a Song the Piano Man

He says, "Son, can you play me a memory, I'm not really sure how it goes, But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete When I wore a younger man's clothes."

la la la, di da daLa la, di di da da dum

Sing us a song, you're the piano man Sing us a song tonight Well, we're all in the mood for a melody And you've got us all feelin' alright

It's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday And the manager gives me a smile 'Cause he knows that it's me they've been comin' to see To forget about life for a while And the piano, it sounds like a carnival And the microphone smells like a beer And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jarAnd say, "Man, what are you doin' here?"

sing us a song you're the piano man sing us a song tonight well we're all in the mood for a melody and you got us all feeling alright

Summer Fun

We had the chance to get out on the lake for some family fun, and try on a new life vest. Finnegan update: I have 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8! teeth now, and I am a motoring machine when it comes to crawling around the house. Watch out Stella's dog dish~here I come!

My grunts and laughs are contagious.

Swimming lessons are going good. I am getting real comfortable in the warm water at the YMCA, and having fun splashing around. So much fun splashing around, that I have learned to use those skills in the bath tub at home. You should see the amount of water that I can get on the kitchen counters.


Whoa... Dad showing me how the periscope on the boat works.

I got to DRIVE... drive... drive.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Marco...Polo

Last week we started swimming lessons at the Y.M.C.A., well... "water adjustment" class is the technical term, but I call it swimming lessons! We get to do a lot of splashing around in the pool. We get to do everything from washing our legs and face, jump-in's off the pool deck, front crawl and back crawl where we kick our legs, and then we get to play with toys so that we reach out and grab for a toy that teaches us how to reach out mimicking a swim stroke.


Today I played with the taxi cab. Last week I had the sailboat... and I am eyeing the fire truck that I saw in the toy bin for next week.

Here dad is helping me practice the back float, and I am helping him clean breakfast out of his beard with my toes.

One of the "lessons" we learn each week is how to blow bubbles. Everyone is having a tough time with the "blow" concept, and we end up drinking a lot of the water. Here is a picture of dad and I staring at a coughing classmate.

Alright, where did my taxi cab go?

Time to hit the showers, another week of swim class under our belt!

Grandpa & Grandma Cronk Visit

Grandpa Fred and Tina came up from Bakersfield in their motorhome this weekend for a visit. We had a fun time around town, and at the house playing and catching up.


Dad thinks that there is a resemblance between Grandpa Fred and I... we both sunburn easy!

I am growing into quite the little boy. There is no mountain that I am not interested in trying to climb, and no matter how hard mom tries to prevent it... I am going to find some dirt!

I learned a new game while grandpa was here... I can play air hockey with the drink coasters underneath the living room table. It is a real fun time.

Close up of the air hockey table.

See how much fun it is?

Good to see you both! Family photo on the back deck.

Baby Class Reunion

Today my mom and I joined the parents and babies from our baby class for a barbecue at Kevin and Wendy and Logan's house. It was fun to meet some cool kids my own age and play for a while, and I think that it was fun for mom to get ideas from other mom and dad's about how to raise the perfect child.

You know me, everything has to pass the taste test.

I am the youngest of all my classmates, and I am the only one that has all four front teeth so far!

What else can I say? This is how I roll.


To the left of this picture are my pals Logan (front), and Coltin (blonde). We have gotten together a couple times to hang out... go to the mall, cruise the drag, you know... typical toddler things.

Daddio gets back from Montana tomorrow. It will be fun to tell him all about baby reunion.

Fairhaven Waterworks

Today the family went exploring! There is a fun park in Fairhaven that has little sprinkler fountains that spray everywhere. We thought that we would give it a shot because the weather has been so nice this week. So here is the Frog Man's first attempt at outdoor water fun!


Mom and I arriving at the park. You can see my eyes are already glued on the fun to be had in front of me.

Dad started me off in the mini-fountain. It was COLD! I didn't know what to think about that.

Some of the bigger sprinklers shot up higher. I tried dabbling my feet in those as well, but it wasn't as much fun as I had anticipated. REALLY COLD WATER. It is nothing like the water that I find in the bath tub or the shower!

We went and hung out on the blanket and watched. I had a great time watching everyone else run through those crazy water sprinklers!

Mom and I tried an attempt #2, but the park department still had not turned on the warm water yet. Here we are returing to our blanket.

Dad and I watching the crazy kids out there!

I became the official 4 leaf clover inspector for Bellingham Rec.

Chillin' with Padre.

AHA! We did find something that was pretty sweet in this park. There was this thing called a swing set, with individualized rump holders for kids the size of me to swing in! I jumped right in and let my dogs hang in the wind. I got to tell you that this swinging thing is pretty great!

A close up of the rump holder.

I am pretty sure that if I could figure out how to swing these legs, and time it right, that I could clearly swing higher than all the other kids down the line of swings.

Here is dad showing me how it all works. Back and forth, back and forth.

For now, we will stick to dad and mom power for the plane to fly. Pretty soon... under-dogs!

That is all for today! Have a great weekend.