Dance to the music!

I've had fun the past two days. I learned a new trick... I now know how to spin the rolly-dealie on top of my bus and on my tiny piano. I like to spin it while listening to music. I can add my spinny percussion sound. Yay!



Speaking of music, I got to hear some lovely music today. I was walking home from the store when I heard a wonderful sound... a man was playing the accordion. He sang a special song for me! (maybe 'cause Mah gave him a dollar!)




Accordion man!
I think you need a monkey.
You should call Lola!

I'm stuck inside and ANGRY!

Okay, what's the deal folks? It was bright and sunny for a few days. I got to go outside with no socks and no pants. I loved it! See this picture? That's me on Monday. Well... today was rainy and cool. It thundered. Guess what? Thunder scares Mrs. Peepers but it doesn't scare me. It does make me a little angry though. I like being outside. If I have to stay inside I'm gonna let my whompwhomps out!

Awwwwwughhhhoooo!

Mahmee took this movie of me singing this morning. I really like to sing. I do it all the time BUT I like to sing the loudest from about 6 to 9 am!



Listen to me sing
I join with the songs of birds
But I'm my own flock!

I drool.... I like cats

Well, I drool. I like cats. That about sums me up!

Swingin' like the sakura blossoms

Grammy T-Mac wanted me to post some of my pictures of the pretty pretty cherry trees. So... here they are! You can also see a movie of me swinging. Now, Mah was silly and took the video with her still camera turned a funny way. Silly Mahmee.... you can't make a video flipflip like a picture! Don't get a neck cramp folks!

Oops!

Oh what sweet, nice weather we've been having here lately. I have spent more time outside than in. I spent Sunday in Central Park, Monday in Prospect Park, and today at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. The Sakura festival is this coming weekend and all the trees on the Cherry Esplanade were in bloom. I saw pink, red, and white cherry blossoms. They might be the prettiest things I've ever seen!

I met some of my friends at the BBG. Our mommies ate lunch and later we got to play under the trees. I had fun BUT there were two big oopsies. First, Maxie-pooh was getting his diapie changed. He must have liked cool breeze 'cause.... oops! He made a fountain. I can't do that. Mah says that's cause he's a boy. His peepee got really close to me. All the mommies gasped and I started to cry. Pee fountains are scary!

And, now on to oops number two. It's the worst oops of all-time. I was sitting and playing. Sweet Daphne was laying, playing in front of me. A strong breeze blew and (yes... a breeze can knock over little me) I fell.... smack.... right on top of poor Daphne. Ohhhhhh, it was so sad. She cried and cried. I felt sad for her and cried too. Oh, it just breaks my baby heart. I think she's okay now. Poor Daphne.

Well, don't worry too much. We babies are tough!

Watch out lil' Daphne!
Above you, it's me, Louise.
Is that a hard hat?

I'm trying to earn my keep

Now that I'm eating real food, Mah says that I need to start earning my keep. I used to think she was joking... until today. She took me into Manhattan for something called a "casting call". From what I can tell it is similar to a visit to my vet. There are lots of other babies, I take my clothes off, and people look at me. Somebody said something about a "headshot". I got scared 'cause I already got enough shots for this week. But... it ends up that it's a kind of picture. Some babies came with them. Now that is officially WACK!

I had lots of fun though. Some of my peeps came along. Annabelle, Max, Baila, and I got our pictures taken and then accompanied our moms out for lunch. I wanted to try some of Mah's food but she said that Indian food was too spicy. I'd rather be the judge of that myself. Bah-Goo! I think I can say the name of one Indian dish, aloogobi. Ahhhhoooooguuubuh!

Baby casting call:
Toss in your net and catch one.
We all are too cute!

Poor Sludgie... I wanted to be his friend

Mah says that there are sad things in the news this week. She isn't giving me many details but she and Pappy seem sad. I know what I am sad about. It's Sludgie. Sludgie was a sweet baby whale. He was trying to come and visit me by swimming up the Gowanus canal. Now, I may be a baby but even I know that it's not a good idea to swim in the Gowanus. He should have just texted me and I would have taken the B train to Coney Island to visit him. Poor Sludgie.

Well, time to get my beauty sleep. Tomorrow is my casting call. Hugs and kisses!

Poor Sludgie the whale
the Gowanus is dirty.
It's no love canal.

So much to tell you!

So sorry that I haven't posted in a while. I've been one busy baby. My very very first toothie finally came in on Good Friday. Oooo, it hurt a lot but I sure am proud of it.

I flew back to NYC on Saturday and had a fun Easter with Mah and Pappy. The weather was dreary but I was bright and sunny in my special yellow dress. People at church and at brunch kept ooooing and ahhhing over me. A waitress said that she wanted to kidnap me and take me home with her. Yeeks! No thank you!

My number two toothie came in last Friday. So now I don't just have tooth but TEETH! Cool! I love to suck on my teeth, touch my teeth, and lick my teeth. Mah says I look like an ol' granny with her dentures out (not that either of my Grannies have dentures cause THEY DON'T!).

Today I went to the "vet". I got shots. Ow! I was very brave and cheery though. I smiled and laughed at Dr. Dehovitz and only cried for half-a-second. They told Mah that I was big and healthy. I now weigh 20lbs, 3oz and I am 27 1/2 inches long. Wowzer. That makes me bigger than over 95% of babies my age. Mah said that I did such a good job at the vet's that she'd buy me a special treat. I picked out these cool sunglasses. I know, I know, I'm somethin' else!

I'm loving all my yummy dinner food. I even tried a neato grain last night: millet. It is kinda like oatmeal but crunchier. (Aunt Janet, check out the millet article... it's gluten free!) I really liked squash too. Mmmm, squashy.

Guess what... Mah may try and make me famous. There is a casting call for baby models on Thursday. It is for a magazine ad. I'm going to go with my friends Annabelle and Baila. We are trying to get Max to come too. Wish me luck!

Models aren't just girls
who are way way too skinny.
Big is beautiful!

No, no, no... not Gina (and btw, I'm in Michigan)

Well howdy folks! I'm enjoying life as a country kid this week here in beautiful Michigan. It's so much fun to play with Grammy, Grampy, Aunt Kelly, but especially my cousin, Lola. She is just so cute! (and little... I have to be careful that I don't squash her)
I went to Lake Michigan yesterday. I liked to put my little toesies in the sand. It was sunny and pretty out. Mah was taking my picture while I sat in the sand BUT... ooops... I fell over... right on my face. Icky, icky sand was everywhere. Blahhhhh. I still had fun though!

Today was cold and it actually snowed. Yeeks! I'm a big Brooklyn girl though so that didn't keep me in. I took a nice walk downtown. Fun!

I really miss my Pappy though. Michigan is fun but I need to go home soon. My Pappy and my kitties need me and I need them.

Pappy is alone
with two crazy kitty cats.
My poor, poor Pappy.

Still no tooth yet...

Okay, what's the deal with the teething thing? I have been chomping away on teething rings for like, weeks now and STILL no teeth! But hey, I keep trying new foods in anticipation of my teeth coming in. This week I tried pears (eeeww, too sweet), kiwi (eeewww, too sour), banana (eeewww, too mushy and sweet), bok choy (mmmm, chewy), avocado (mmm, green), and the best.. oatmeal (mmmm, warm and chunky).

My favorite foods are: sweet potatoes, bok choy, oatmeal, rice cereal, cabbage, sea weed from Mah's miso soup, and avocado.

I ate oatmeal for the first time today. Mah and Pappy went to the Emphasis Diner in Bay Ridge. (Mah works in Bay Ridge sometimes) The waitresses and the owner thought I was the cutest. One of them pinched me. Pappy and Mah took me to the tax place yesterday. One of the tax guys pinched me too. Why do people always pinch me? I don't pinch them.... I may raspberry spit on their faces but I don't PINCH! Maybe I should walk around pinching grownups on their thighs and telling them how much I love all their FAT. See how they like THAT!

My thighs may be fat
But they aren't as fat as yours
Greek waitress lady.