Gabe has a lot to say.

While falling asleep just now, he chanted "ding ding ding ding fireman!" a couple of times. Now he is singing. For dinner we had quesadilla and guacamole, and he can say both of those words like a champ. Earlier this week he surprised me by asking the complete sentence "where did Daddy go?"

Gabe asks for books by name. His favorites include "Places You Go" (Oh the Places You'll Go), "Green Ham" (Green Eggs and Ham), "Lorax", "Truck Book", "Snowman Book", "Tiger book", "No David", and, his favorite, "Humperdink" (Hooper Humperdink: Not Him! By Dr. Seuss.) All books except for No David are, according to Gabe, "by Dr. Seuss". We haven't made our first real pilgrimage to a library, except for one stop at the library in the neighboring town, which, shockingly, turns out to be closed on weekends.

And now, on having been sidetracked while looking up the proper spelling of Seuss, I have learned all about the awesome Theo Geisel on Wikipedia.

Overheard. . .

. . .as Gabe was falling asleep:

"No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"

Gabe Eat's Edamame from the Garden

I picked some of the soy beans just before lunch and decided to try making edamame for lunch. I figured Michelle and I would split some. Much to my surprise Gabe go into his chair and dove in.

It took him a couple attempts before he figured out how to get them open, but he learned quickly.

Nom Nom Nom goes Gabe.

Earlier this morning Gabe shelled a bunch of dried peas for me, so I'm wondering if that helped him out with the edamame. Though eventually he copied mom and dad and started popping the pods in his mouth to break them open.

Happy boy full of fresh organic edamame. If I ever doubted if all the time in the garden was worth it, watching Gabe happily eat GREEN things from the garden has dispelled that doubt.

A birthday toy

Gabe picked out his gift at the toystore.



He likes it almost as much as the balloons.



Thank you everyone for the fleet of toy construction vehicles, and the other lovely gifts! Gabe loves them all.

Overheard on the Baby Monitor. . .

"One diaper, two diaper. One diaper, two diaper. I did it!"

Gabe's Waterpark Adventure

You want me to climb up where?

I did it all by myself! I am totally the man!

Now I just adjust like so and get down on my butt...

Holy crap do you see how high this is?!?!?!

My public awaits so down I go.

Splashdown!

Here ya go little lady let me get that for you.

Now that we have that out of the way,
what would you say to a trip to the water slide together?

Ya I totally come here all the time. I practically own this place.

Free-stylin!

Holy Cow. I hope she can't see my face from up there this is scary!

What are you doin' man. You're like totally backwards.

Wedgy city huh dude? I told you backwards was a bad idea.

All the babes love free-stylin!

Boy in a Bucket

The Home Depot was having a special on toddlers, so we decided to pick one up! We've been having a heat wave up here, so when given a bucket of water to play in Gabe decided he'd climb right in.

It is like the Ocean in Galveston, only smaller...