Gameday preparations

Jonathan, since you have your Eagles shirt on, can you do a touchdown pose picture for the blog? Raise your arms.

Funny kid. OK, please raise your other arm.

You're a riot. No, raise them both at the same time.

HOLD THEM APART -- THIS IS WHY THE PHOTOS TAKE FOREVER.

Fine, good enough. Whatever.

Now you're just showing off.

Dinosaur books

Why don't Mom and Dad ever take me to the zoo to see these guys? Or take me to ride on the dinosaur train? That'd be too cool.

Traffic jam

You know, if they were really in a hurry, they could drive around me.

Brown bear, take two

Remember this video of me reading "Brown Bear, what do you see?" We've been going over that story a lot in daycare recently, so here I am reading it again ... without the book.

National Book Festival

I got a chance to go into Washington, D.C. for the national book festival today, and you'll never guess who was there.

That cat and his hat were too cool. But where were Thing 1 and Thing 2? Seems like they could have found time to come out and play today. 

The PBS tent also had a giant picture of Daniel Tiger's trolley, but they forgot to color it in. Luckily, somebody had left some markers nearby, so I did as much work as I could.

I also got a great new Clifford book where he climbs up the Washington Monument. But after seeing the real thing, I'm wondering if that's realistic at all.

Coloring in the lines

What's the fun in just coloring in the book? There's plenty of room outside the page.

Play ball

I got to hang out at Grandma Linda's house this weekend for Grandpop's birthday party, and the neighborhood kids had all sorts of stuff to play with.

Here's me playing catch with cousin Lily, while Ollie and Uncle Mike watch. She's got a wicked curve all for a four-year-old.

And Dad said this "football" is the kind you kick on the ground. Looks like a soccer ball to me, but it's fun either way.

Morning rush hour

When I get to school early, I get to run laps around the classroom without any traffic.

Football practice

It's the first full Sunday of the NFL, so Dad and I went outside today to practice my passing drills.


Dad says I already throw as well as Mike Vick does, but I'm not totally sure he meant that as a compliment.

Apply sticker and smile!

I see no reason to smile in this situation.

More mountain pictures

Hanging out up the Poconos was a blast! Grandmom and Pop-Pop took me too an awesome mountain beach where the water didn't have any waves, which was a lot calmer for me to play in. Here I am helping to water the water with a watering can, because it needed to be done.

They also found a county fair for me to hang out at. Here's what the first place chickens looked like. For prize-winning birds, they were kind of smelly.

And I also got a chance to play with cousin Tommy for four days! Here we are on the swings, where I taught him how how much fun going up and down is. He's kinda slouchy, but he had fun.

Playing in the mountains is fun. Too bad they put them so far away from home.

Poconos vacation

The vacation down the shore last month was so exhausting, Mom and Dad decided we needed another getaway. So here's a picture of me relaxing with Grandmom at sunset. I'll post more when I get home, and there's a little better Internet.