A Ride in My Red Wagon

Wow! Today was so much fun! Mommy went to KC yesterday to visit Aunt T and Nathan, so I spent last night and today with daddy (and Doll and Granddad). Last night, it was just me and daddy. This morning we went to breakfast with Doll and Granddad. After breakfast, I played with Doll and Granddad while daddy went to work for a bit.

It was really nice outside today (daddy said it was over 50 degrees), so when daddy and I went home, daddy took me for a ride in my wagon. It is the wagon that my MiMi and Papa gave me for Christmas. It was a lot of fun!!! I smiled at all the girls and waved at the doggies.



We went to the playground and I got to play on the swings. I also climbed the stairs of a jungle gym, "scooted" across the shaky bridge, and slid down a slide with daddy. So much fun....
I hope you had a very pretty day where you live too.....

A Trip to Walnut Street Barber Shop

Yesterday was a big day. Yesterday morning, daddy took me to breakfast at Gailey's Breakfast Cafe on Walnut Street in Dowtown, Springfield. We had breakfast with Granddad and Doll. It was so much fun. I had "the Little Downtowner," with eggs (scrambled) and two sausage patties. It also had hash browns. So yummy. I ate both of the (very big) sausage patties.

After eating breakfast, daddy took me across the street to the Walnut Street Barber shop for my first haircut. Yes, my first haircut ever. Mommy gave daddy specific instructions -- the barber could cut the back and the sides, but he COULD NOT cut the top or the front. Anyway, I was a little nervous but I didn't cry. Granddad and Doll came to the barber shop to watch. And the paparazzi were out in full force -- just like Britney!

I wasn't too excited when the barber started. Doll had to help me not get my hands in the barber's way, while daddy and Granddad took lots of pictures.

My daddy got a haircut while we were at the barber shop too. Daddy likes to say that he got "his ears lowered" instead of a haircut.

The best part of my first hair cut was that the barber gave me a sucker before he started my hair. I heard daddy telling Doll that he gave me the sucker so I would stay still. If the trick to getting candy is to stay still, I might stay still more often. I also heard daddy tell the barber that mommy wasn't going to be very happy about the sucker. But the barber didn't seem to care. Anyway, back to that sucker -- it was a grape dum-dum and it was very yummy!
For a little bit of time, my daddy was getting a haircut at the same time as me. My daddy really likes this picture.

The barber's name was Mr. Herschel. He was really nice and my daddy called him "patient." He gave me a certificate that said that I had graduated from "babyhood" with my first haircut. He doesn't know it, but I graduated from babyhood when I started this new blog. He also gave my daddy a ziploc bag with some locks of my hair in it for my baby book.
Don't I look happy with my sucker, and with Doll and Mr. Herschel?

Here is a picture of Mr. Herschel holding me. He asked for a copy of this picture for his drawer full of baby pictures. There were two other big boys in the barber shop waiting for a haircut and their mommy said that Mr. Herschel did their first haircuts.

Here is a picture of me, Granddad, and daddy, after my haircut and daddy's haircut.
I can't wait until my next haircut, because I want another sucker.

Ariana Marie Gray

In the last couple of days, you met my new cousin Nathan. He is my Aunt T's little baby and he was born last week. I also have another new cousin -- cousin Ariana Marie Gray. My Aunt Jessica and Uncle Rhye in Louisiana -- you've met them before -- had a baby girl in December. She is so pretty. Today, Aunt Jessica sent out some of cousin Ariana's first professional photos. Isn't she pretty....

I can't wait to meet her. She's tiny. Just like baby Nathan.

Crab Cakes for Everyone (but me)

Last week, daddy went out of town. He had to go to law camp. I don't know what that means, law camp, but it doesn't sound like too much fun.

If you want to hear a funny story, you should ask him about his trip to law camp -- he said something about losing his ID, his suitcase falling apart in the airport, and missing the exit on the way to law camp. Only my daddy.

Anyway, on Thursday, my mommy took me to Kansas City -- we visited with Aunt T and my new cousin Nathan, and then we flew to Baltimore to see Papa, MiMi, and G.G. G.G. was sick so she didn't get to hold me, but it was fun to see her. My mommy and daddy took me to IKEA and we went to my Papa's church. He showed me to all the people and I got to stand at the back of the church and shake everyone's hands.


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In the airport on the way home, I found these neat pillars that I could crawl between. Daddy thought they would make funny pictures

When we flew back to Kansas City, we went to see cousin Nathan and Aunt T again. He is six days old. I grabbed his blanket. He is really cute. Mommy says when I get big I can hold him.