the shore
last week Gigi and Poppy brought me "down the shore". i said to someone at school that she brought me "down TO the shore", but these jersey folk corrected me and indicated that it's "down the shore". i guess it just shows how silly people are in this state...

camping part deux
yup, now THIS is camping... my fold-out chair, my juicy box, sitting like WT in my diaper with no pants... ahh... now we're talkin'!

camping!
ok, this water park wasn't really "camping" per say. but it was sick cool... this place was crazy. this picture only shows like a third of the water park they had for me (ok, for all the kids...) at the campground. what a hoot! daddy and mommy and i played the whole time. on sunday we even went back one more time in the afternoon before leaving. mommy knew i was tired b/c i fell asleep in her arms right in the pool!

american idol
auntie allie got me this cool new toy that plays cool music when i match the animals in the barn... i felt the need to groove. i REALLY felt the need to groove, yo. you have to wait till the end here... the end is where i really funk it up.(unfortunately there's no sound... but it's still a kick-a$$ clip)

excitement!
we celebrated my birthday early! and i got cards and presents and stuff. it was so cool, it was the most exciting thing ever for everyone there. except uncle bob. as you can see from this picture, bob wasn't too enthralled with the action.

swimming
how awesome am i? i swim like such a champ. daddy and i played in the water so much, but i also worked on kicking the water and splashing my arms just to be even more awesome.

fishy
mommy and daddy and i went to "camp" this weekend. up in massachusetts... it's called wyman's pond. there's boats, and swimming and all kinds of things to do. we took so many pictures, i'm gonna try to upload some more this week, but this is one of my favorite pictures. grampy took me fishing with my new barbie fishing pole. we had to wait and be patient for almost two whole minutes on the dock while trying to catch a fishy, but we caught one!

daddy can we road trip to france?
i hear there's a little bike ride coming up. i hear it's beautiful this time of year. i can borrow this bike from nathaniel and we can climb alpe de huez together.. please? please?

garbage truck!
the early morning, eating breakfast, i hear the engine rumbling in the street... garbage truck! daddy garbage! i like trucks and the garbage truck is my favorite!

just chillin'
i love being outside, especially with mommy, and especially on the big comfy patio furniture. this was lazy sunday after daddy got back from his fathers day bike ride.

revenge!
mommy and daddy keep spraying me with the hose... um, not anymore yo, i have learned to turn the tide...

how much fo jus' one rib?
summer food is great... loving ribs, loving corn. don't even think i've barely had a hot dog or burger yet, mommy keeps going nuts with ribs.

The Lilly Bloomed!

Mommy and I have been working hard in our gardens and all our hard work is paying off because everything is blooming and looking so pretty. This morning we woke up and the lilly bloomed overnight. I tried to close it but it wants to be open. So pretty.

silly!
that's me and jaden, we took off our shirts. well, jaden took his off, so i took mine off too. daddy's hoping i learn to put up more of a fight with boys before removing articles of clothing in the future...

ring around the rosie
after dinner, i went across the street to jaden and tayla's. we played ring-around-the-rosie all by ourselves...

paella party
mommy had a big paella party last night with a group of her old co-workers... um, they fed me turkey lunch meat, then ate paella and drank sangria. what a raw deal for gabi... come on, throw me a bone, ma. so for dinner tonight i had all kinds of spanish food for dinner. daddy get that camera out of my face! (please)

pretty girl
just a shot of me being awesome. which i am really good at being.

climbing
daddy said that uncle greggie's been doing a lot of rock climbing out in san francisco. i told daddy that maybe we could join him when we went to visit. daddy said that neither one of us was strong enough to do rock climbing. phooey.

then i brushed teeth before bed.

test for uncle greggie
when uncle greggie lived in san diego he bought me this special sun hat. it has an octopus on it and i love it. now that greggie is in san francisco, i hope he looks on my blog to see my pics. :-)

missing mommy

mommy left for chicago this morning. when i got up i put on her sweatshirt so i could still be close to her. i hope she comes home soon, i can't wait! (and notice how nice my smile is... better than cheese face, ay?)