My First Modeling Job.....Baby Elf

Uncle Joe found this book for me. It was my first modeling gig. I was lucky to get a cover on my first audition.

My 1st Thanksgiving....God Bless the Troops

Thursday was my first Thanksgiving. My mommy and daddy taught me the importance of family in every sense of the word. We were so thankful to have good friends who are honorably serving along side my daddy to dinner at our house. What a great time we had! Mommy started abusing me early in the morning by waking me up with the camera flash to capture my first Thanksgiving smile. Good luck with that. I don't smile on command until I get some coffee in me. All three of us missed my Grandparents and Aunts/Uncles/Cousins but were blessed to have a house full and WAY to much food.



Mommy, Daddy and I in post Thanksgiving bliss.


Me and daddy with our Thanksgiving company.


This was my third plate and I was starting to get a little full. Do you know how hard it is to eat turkey when you have no teeth.



Here I am helping mommy get dinner ready. By helping I mean staring and laughing at the kitchen light fixture.

Here I am first thing Thanksgiving morning giving thanks for an extra hour of sleep.

Road Trip w/Mom and Dad

We finally set off from Lawton (Ft. Sill), OK on Saturday. The sun was bright the music was blasting and mommy, daddy and I hit the open road. If you think Indian casinos and oil dikes are a scenic drive I definitely recommend the trip. We made it 6 hours to Little Rock, AR on the first day. I was able to go meet Tegan my mommy's close friend since forever. Tegan knitted me a very cool camoflague blanket that I plan to build forts with in the coming years.
Day 2 took us from Little Rock to Nashville, TN. We were planning on stopping in Chattanooga and at Graceland but I was going through clothes much faster than mommy predicted. Can any of you say that you've been naked in a Cracker Barrel? I'm considering starting a hobby of getting naked in strange places so far I have a Delta commuter jet and a Cracker Barrel in Arkansa.
Mommy and Daddy woke up on day 3 with a mission. Get me home to sleep in my normal crib. We drove 10 hours in the freezing rain thru the mountains of Tennessee. We stopped twice so crowds of people could tell mommy and daddy how cute I was. I obligingly smiled and cooed and then screamed my brains out once locked in the car. We finally arrived home on Monday night just in time to start cooking turkey!

For those of you counting I am 13 weeks old and I have traveled to 8 states: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansa, and Oklahoma.




Road Trip Day 1 minute 1.





Road Trip Day 1 Minute 3.




Me with my pretty Auntie Tegan.

Me in the Cracker Barrel. Location: Nowhere, AR. This is after mommy stripped me naked. I have no dignity.

Farewell Oklahoma

Daddy was definitely ready to head back home at the end of the week. He completed his course and we had 1 last farewell dinner with his classmates.



(Daddy and I after a long week of classes.)



(Daddy and I at our last dinner in Lawton, OK. Mommy and Daddy let me stay up WAY past my bedtime. I showed them just how bad I can be when I stay up late.)



(LT Read-Walsh is telling me how she is personally going to take down Al-Qaeda. Daddy is a little bit afraid of her......(A LOT).)

(LT Fuller like LT Read-Walsh taught me girls are not just pretty but tough soldiers too. They kept daddy in line during his 7 week course and I think I have my first crush.)

OOOOOOOKLAHOMA!!!!

So I'm back to blogging after our family trip to Oklahoma. The adventure started with mommy and I flying from Newport News, VA to Lawton, OK. If you need to know where Lawton is don't worry hopefully you will not ever have a need to visit. I can tell you it is somewhere in the great state of OOOOOOOklahoma. I really enjoyed flying on the airplane. On our trip from NN to Atlanta I was so relaxed I decided to throw mommy a curve ball. This incident ended with me being butt naked on a commuter plane. Mommy won that round and I landed in outfit/diaper #2. I decided to give her a break on the trip from Atlanta to Lawton as the plane was full and we were sitting next to a pilot who just found out he was expecting his first baby. Mommy told me not to ruin it for him.
Once we arrived in Oklahoma I was ecstatic to see my daddy again. Six weeks was too long. He immediately carried me to the barracks to meet his platoon. During the day mommy and I enjoyed the beautiful weather in Lawton, Ok. It was 40 degrees and the wind was 40 mph. I got a good laugh at mommy when she pulled the stroller out and the wind carried it off across an open field. She had to sprint after it. No I wasn't in it. Stay tuned for the road trip home!

(Lt. Miller looking very natural with me. )

(Lt Recchia giving me tips on how to pick up waitresses and how to avoid STDs.)

(I wanted to go home with Lt. Park. It took my mommy 2 hours to calm me down after I left him. )

11 Weeks Old Today....

This is mommy's favorite sleeping face. She usually gets to see it during my afternoon nap that starts on the way home from visiting my buddies at the YMCA. Mommy no longer gives the childcare workers dirty looks when they take me back. She can now go 1 whole hour for a workout without having a panic attack.



In the previous blog I mentioned my favorite dinosaur shirt. Here it is! Thanks Aunt Cate. See how good I am sitting up now.




My Auntie Leticia gave me 2 super cool onesies. This one with the turtle and another with a "W." Mommy attempted to take a photo with the W when I decided to projectile poop all over everything. She will try again another day. Am I cute or what?





This is me having some tummy time in my puppy outfit. Again, thanks Aunt Cate.

In other news, I will be traveling on the big airplane in just 6 more days to an exotic land called Oklahoma. I can't wait to see my daddy again. He's an even bigger sucker than mommy.

10 Weeks and Spoiled Rotten

Mommy has not been good about posting my blog this week. I mean its hard enough for a 10 week old to write then she sits on them for days before posting. Last Sunday mommy took me to Sears for my first photo session. They saw sucker written all over her face. After having my soul exposed on camera for hours, ok so it was just my bum, I finally got a break. This week also marked me hitting 10 weeks. Mommy keeps talking about how sad she is to put my 0-3 month clothes away. Luckily my favorite dinosaur shirt still fits. I'm really getting strong when it comes to holding my head up and I can sit up for a couple of minutes before I tip over. I'm also losing my John McCain fists and starting to open my hands up occasionally. Most of all I am looking forward to my trip on the airplane in just 9 days! I miss my daddy terribly!!!!