I'm Known to Rock the Microphone

 

 

 

At Grandpa's 70th Birthday - guess who loved to get up close to the mic to say a few things.

Missing Summer Pool Time

 

 

 

On a chilly day like today, its nice to think back to the hot summer days. Dek loves pool time and is even currently taking a winter swim class, well pre-swim, he's mostly just splashing around with one of us and we're paying $10 for 30 minutes of it a week. He used to love using his foot to stop the little fountains of water before getting upset when they'd splash back into his face when he moved his foot.

Dek the Mischievous

August 13, 2012

We didn't post this a few months ago when it happened. But check out that goose egg and the ensuing brick we sh*t when we saw it develop on his head after he ran, tripped and fell on the corner of a stepping stone.

Cost of Emergency Room Co-Pay: $125
Cost of Tini's anxiety: Nearly a heart attack

Luckily, our mischevious boy was just fine and the egg swelled down a few hours afterwards and he was back to his reckless self.

Our Lucky Pumpkin!

 

 

 

 

Here's the Lucky Pumpkin we won. Dek and Mercy are on the future home of their grandparents, just right around the corner from our neighborhood.

Alcova Heights Halloween Parade

 

 

 

 

Finally getting to October photos (don't ask how the time gets away from me). You'll see a rash of posts of Dek the Racoon, co-starring cousin Mercy as a Dinosaur.

Here's the first set where they participated in their first Alcova Heights Halloween Parade. Dek napped a bit late so that meant that they ended up missing the parade (the group had left down the hill), but we did make it to the park. We won a pumpkin a raffle!

Mr. Sandman

 

 

Here is Dek serving up some fun earlier last month. 

Triceratops Climbing and such

 

 

Again, more rapid posts as I organize the countdown to Dek 2.0! Well, 2 years old that is.

Anyway, here he is around 21 months at the Douglas Park playground a few blocks from our house. Its a nice litte place for toddlers and he really enjoys the sand. Every now and then he'll scale the triceratops. Ever since he started walking well (between 14-15 months) all of his baby fat completely disappeared as he has been one wiggly worm since then and its been hard to keep any weight on him. He'll eat two bowls of rice in some meals (or noodles) yet still skinny minnie he remains. I am a bit nervous he's never eating enough because we're always worried to about getting him enough protein/fat/calcium that he's missing from not drinking cow's milk. The good news is that he's tested negative for peanut and shellfish so far, so we just have to avoid that until age 3 to ensure he doesn't develop an allergy. Food allergies = so confusing. I think its tough  on them especially when they go to school, so hopefully by then he will have outgrown the dairy allergy too (fingers crossed).