Hiking in the Canyon

Last week I went hiking for my very first time and I LOVED it. Unfortunately, my moms didn't have the camera to take any pictures. We were driving through Santiam Pass and I guess I was being fussy so they stopped at a camp site at Soda Springs. We walked the trail up and down the hill to the river and falls. I even walked into the river... it was COLD! I wanted to get in, but my moms said NO WAY! 

Anyway, we live near a "canyon" and it has a walking trail. Some of it is paved with asphalt, and some is just dusty dirt and brush. Sometimes, I like to be an adventurer and wander off... but my Mommy (Steph) captured some pictures on her cell phone before dragging me out of there, when it was time to leave. I was stomping in the piles of dusty dirt to make clouds of dust, but my Mommy never got a good shot of any of the dust clouds I made, just me standing there stomping my foot! We had 2 of my dogs with us -- Nacho ('cho) and Sable ('bo).

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I celebrated St. Patrick's Day by taking a GREEN bath! Yay! I didn't like it when my Mor tried to mix the blue and yellow soap "paint" to try to make a green clover on my chest. It just turned to bubbles, which I only want to touch if they are big blowing bubbles (not in a bath)! But it wasn't too overwhelming... so, I dealt with it... long enough for her to take pictures!

Learning Tower Fixed

Mor (Lisa) fixed my Learning Tower to make it more stable and added aluminum bracket stops... and so that when I get excited and bounce around, the platform doesn't slip out and fall to the ground! We have to wait until the weather gets a little warmer before she can prime and paint it, but at least I get to use it again! Here I am helping with dishes and giving one of my dinosaurs a bath!

I can point out 6 different dinosaur pictures (triceratops, spinosaurus, t-rex, supersaurus, stegosaurus, and anklyosaurus) correctly when my moms ask me where each one is! I'm learning a few others, too. My favorite TV shows are Dino Dan (on Nick Jr.) and Dinosaur Train (on PBS Kids). And, I LOVE reading about them too... sometimes at the same time that the show is on TV! 

For Valentine's Day I got a bunch more toy, plastic dinosaurs! I am very excited about that! I hide them all over the house and the Tahoe (SUV) so that I (or my Mor) can find them later.

I'm learning new words, but I still like to shorten them:
Rah = Frog
T = T-Rex
Go = Go (out)
Shoes = both shoes and socks are "shoes" (shoes and juice sound nearly identical)... I go get my own shoes when I want to "go" somewhere
Yai = eye
Eeth = teeth
Got = I got it
Gurt = Yogurt
Q = Thank you
Bong = boing (which after 2 weeks my moms finally figured out just means I want to go "boing" bouncing up and down the stairs)

And I can point to most of my body parts when my moms ask me where is it, but I can only say "eye" (yai), "nose" (no), "teeth" (eeth).


I say yes (or YEAH!) a lot more now, especially when my moms FINALLY get what I have been asking for! But, I always have to say "please" (eese) when I ask for something. And, "thank you" (Q = "k'you") when I get it ... I'm still practicing this one.

Toddler Playtime

I got to go to the Toddler Playtime again, but I wasn't feeling all together well yet. So, I got tired quickly and we had to leave before any other kids came to play. But, here are some pictures of me on the tumbling mats and kicking some balls around. I wasn't quite as excited about it all this time, because I still have sick bugs in me. We'll try again when I'm all better!

Sick, again....

After my Mommy (Steph) had walking pneumonia, my Mor and I thought we were in the clear, since we didn't get sick.... but, I got sick last week. First a cold, and then my doctor said I got a secondary infection of a sinus infection along with either bronchitis or pneumonia. I've been taking antibiotics and cold medicine for the past week and I'm just starting to get better.

My Mor took some pictures of me when I wasn't very happy about it. But, here they are anyway!

I got new rubber fireman boots that I like to wear around the house, even when I don't have anything else on! And, I got a new pirate bath robe, but I'm not too sure about it yet. I love to climb, especially on ladders. I was playing with my toy dinosaurs on one of the ladder steps.

Future Soccer Star!

I've been having a rough week... my eye teeth (incisors) are all coming in and they HURT! 

I also got my first hair cut. My Mor (Lisa) did it, to try to promote more hair growth. I only got a trim of the top and back (where my hair was the longest). I was a little nervous about what was happening. My silly Mor even saved a couple of cut locks in a zip lock snack bag! She said that she still has a lock of hair from her first haircut, too!

I've been learning new words, but I think only my Moms understand me when I'm talking, because I tend to shorten words... like:
"tar" for "star" 
"keey" for "kitty"
"deeth" for "teeth" 
"inky" for "binky" 
"guck" for "duck" (Go Gucks!)
a soft "no" for "snow" 
"Cho" for "Nacho" (one of the dogs)
"sat" for "what's that" 
"dis" for "this" 
"der" for "peanut butter"
"eeese" for "please"
But, I say "Mom" and "juice" (for any / all liquids) and "uh-oh" and "NO" very clearly!

I got to go to a Toddler Activity Group at the local recreation center this week, but I was the only toddler there! But, I had fun anyway on the tumbling mats and kicking and throwing balls around. My moms said they are going to video tape me kicking the ball next week, because they think I'm a future soccer star! Here are some pictures my Mor (Lisa) took of me on her cell phone. They are a bit blurry because I was so FAST! I was so worn out, I took a second nap that day!

Washing Dishes

I love water... but sometimes my Mor (Lisa) says that I get a little too wild when I play - I mean, wash dishes - in the sink. She said she's going to build me a special water table with a pump to play with OUTSIDE, this Summer.... because she said that I don't seem to understand what "keep it IN the sink, please" means! In this last picture, I'm saying, "uh-oh"!

Team Diversity

 Mommy (Steph) is trying some team diversity and allowing me to support a non-Ducks team... at least when it's not NCAA football season! But, I'll be wearing Ducks stuff on Monday, the 10th for the big bowl game!

My aunt Andrea (and cousin Riley) sent me this Gonzaga t-shirt in my big Christmas box! And even my Mommy admitted that they have a really good basketball team! Go Zags!

It's a Dino Dan Christmas!

Phoenix's favorite show  on TV right now is Dino Dan (on Nick Jr.). He is a bit obsessed with it... and dinosaurs. But he calls all of the dinosaurs "Dan(s)". Needless to say most the gifts we got for him were in a dino-theme (puzzles and dino toys).

He wore a pair of Yo Gabba Gabba big boy underwear for a few minutes after his bath and enjoyed them so much that he wanted them on again (over his diapers!)... but, no pants! 

We went ahead and opened gifts a couple of days early since Mommy (Steph) is working Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (double shifts).

Our ChristmasTree

Last week we went deep into the snowy woods to find and cut down a tree. I'm just not too sure about the snow yet (a little too cold and wet for me)! The snow was pretty deep! So, my Mommy (Steph) cut the tree (with help from one of my little dogs, Sable) after my Mor and I picked it out. We watched her from the Tahoe! Then my Mommies worked together to lift it to the top of the Tahoe and tie it down for our trip back home. 

We didn't get as big of a Christmas tree as we did last year.... but, I still like it! Especially all of the pretty lights.

My Mommies said we wouldn't be hanging all of the ornaments this year... probably because I like taking them all off to "look" at them, and I'm just like my Mor (Lisa) because I have to touch / hold things to "look" at them!

I gathered all of the bells from the tree and stashed them in the "trunk" of my ride-on busy car!