While Daddy was Away

My daddy had to go on a trip to an island named Panay with a group of students from Taiwan. Mommy said he'd be back in only a week, but I still felt kinda sad. This is the new face that I started making while he was away!

While he was gone, I stayed very busy. I practiced my crawling skills, but sometimes got stuck in weird positions and Mommy had to help me.

Mommy took me grocery shopping, and tried to get me to tell people War Eagle. I don't understand why yet, but she says it is going to be one of the most important phrases that I learn. And she says it will especially be useful in football season. I just learned about football, I want to get one. Scruffy has one but Mom won't let me chew on it since he does. :( Maybe for my birthday Daddy will get me one...

Another thing I did was have a slumber party with 3 of my cousins. They slept in Mommy's room with her. I was sad that night and kept crying, I think I just missed my daddy a lot and wished I could have watched the movie with my cousins. This picture is of my cousin, Allison. She is 3, so she doesn't need a crib anymore, but she used to have my crib, so we wanted to take a picture together. (isn't my turtle, cool?!)

I think my favoroite part was going to stay with Aunt Wendy. She lives where Mommy, Daddy and Scruffy did before I was born. Scruffy even got to come! She sang me lots of songs and gave me my first piano lesson. I also got to wear my warm pajamas because she uses air conditioning at night. It felt SO good!

My friends, Austin and Caleb came to play with me twice! I loved it!

This is my friend, Jai. He is 3 days older then me. We are doing some of the same things, but he has 2 teeth... I wish I had some teeth! Mommy says they'll come sometime and that I shouldn't compare myself so much to my friends!

Before we went home we also went to Mommy's school for me to play with some of her students. My friend Omega carried me around and took care of me. I hope Mommy takes me back there again soon.
Daddy had a good trip that he'll tell you about later. I had a great week, but was SO happy when Daddy got home. (and he was very happy to see me and Mommy and Scruffy.) 8 days is a long time in my life!

Scruffy's Day Out!

Ever since Davis has been born, Scruffy has been put on the 'back burner' (especially in my book-- dan makes a lot of great effort to play, but I tend to not!) I just reassure Scruffy that one day soon Davis will be old enough to play with him and be his best friend. For now, Scruffy puts up with Davis by letting him "pet" him, and if it is too hard, he just softly licks Davis's hand and Davis lets go.

SO, this past Saturday we left Davis with our friend Jean (Grandma Jean to Davis) and Dan and I brought Scruffy out on our date to Tiendesitas. This is an open air shopping area that is pet friendly in many ways.

Scruffy was very excited to have all of our attention!

We let Scruffy run around on this carpet... it is the first large expanse he has touched because in most of the homes he has been in there isn't any carpet. Tiendesitas sometimes has dog shows in this area, but we were there on a day when it was nothing but grass!

Hugs from mom! For the past 8 months Scruffy has felt a little deprived!

There is also a kids area that Dan and I checked out. Here Dan is educating Scruffy on the ways of dogs... (or is it the other way around?)