Google Me

Today Daddy got advance copies of his new book, Everything I Know About Marketing I Learned from Google. Things are about to get Googley around here!

Open Peel Surgery

Curtain Call

I love our condo. So many good hiding spots. And my bedroom, er, closet (not pictured) is nice and cozy too.

Word

In this modern day mashup, Daddy conjures up a Beastie Boys book reading, passing the mic to me to complete each sentence of "I Ain't Gonna Paint No More."

Shark Bait

Daddy though the T-Rex looked hungry. I mean you can see his ribs and everything! Make no bones about it.

Full(case we ate)tons

As luck would have it, Cousins Ryan and Sara were also at Disney today. We met up with them for dinner at Fulton's, one of the restaurants owned by Rob's company. We got the red carpet treatment including double-tall milks.

Sara showed off her wicked sticker collage. I wonder if she'll go to sticker college one day?

As an appetizer, they served us goldfish. Leo showed off the... cheese.

For dessert, they sprinkled in some sundaes for us.

Swam Story

I've been taking swim classes on Saturday mornings with Daddy. We mostly just cover the basics. Like, getting in the water.

Still getting in the water.

Socializing.

Sitting on the side. And socializing.

Pouring cups of water.

And sitting on the side again. Come to think of it, there's no swimming happening whatsoever at these lessons. Now I understand where all the women at this "gym" pick up their bad habits.

Angel of Hope

After the olympics, I laid down to rest. Daddy thought that would be the perfect time to make snow angels.

So he eased me into position.

But I was not to be eased.

So he showed me how it's done.

I let him do the angel. I just did a snow booty.

After one more attempt, Daddy decided to throw in the towel (while I threw in the tantrum).

At least we got one good one. I have a feeling this picture will come in handy some day.

Catch 22, er... 6

I'm getting good at playing catch. Well, Daddy's getting good at throwing the ball into my hands. Check out this video as I catch the first two (no look, I might add!), miss the next two (hit the hands!), catch one, miss one, catch two (head fake!), miss three (one handed... ouchies!), and catch one (bye bye, Mommy!).

Little Peanut

Daddy and Mommy took me out to brunch in costume. Not sure why but I had a hankering for peanuts so I asked them to add them to my Tusk-an salad. I'll never forget this halloween. OK, I'm out of elephant puns.

Inching Along

All those pinches to grow inches are really working!

Type-Cast

Soprry for the infrekwent blog postoing and basd speling. Really hard 2 typ with this caast.

Casting Call

Well my Jewish new year is sure off to a rough start. We went to a park in Skokie with the Azulays and I fell off the jungle gym. It was a new park so I wasn't used to the layout and just fell backwards from about 5 feet up and landed on the wood chips with my elbow underneath my back. I cried for a long time but Mommy and Daddy didn't think anything was really wrong until dinner that night when I only used one arm. When they moved my other arm to put it on the table, I let out a scream that let them know something was out of whack. So they took me to the E.R...



By this point, it was a few hours past my bedtime. Couple that with the pain and I was not a happy Ellie. They suited up Daddy and me for some x-rays and...



Sure enough, my arm was broken. Small fracture in my elbow that should heal just fine but requires a cast nonetheless. The ER nurse made me a temporary cast until we can get an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon.



I took it all in stride and really didn't cry much once the x-rays were over. And I really like the dinosaur sling they gave me.



All patched up. Can we go back home to our cast-le now?

In A Category All His Own

Today was yet another official date with my man Leo J Spiegel. That makes 11! Rather than do this crazy linking thing every time we get together, I think Leo's deserves his own category on this blog. So I just set up Leo J to track all our posts (13 so far!). That makes it a 3-way tie with Doctor and Holidays.



We had fun playing at my house playing ring around the Gracie.



Then we went to the park and got cozy on the slide.



Finally, Leo sacked up and moved in for the smooch. Poor guy whiffed. (DK needs to teach me that turn your head at the last minute to make a cheek kiss and mouth kiss trick!)

The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree

I've gotten really good at imitating Mommy and Daddy. In this vid, watch as Daddy and I do our best Chester Cheetah imitations.

Piggin' Out

I'm barely a year old but I've already gone thru some distinct phases in hairstyle -- first was the comb-over, next came the up-do (aka afro), and then the rat-tail. Now we can add one more to my repertoire -- the pigtail (singular). I think this is the one that's gonna propel me to success in the modeling world -- in other words, it'll really help me bring home the bacon.

My Shorty

Hung out with my friend Miles again today. He's getting bigger but so am I. I like my men like I like my blog posts -- short and sweet.

S-N-U-G-G-I-E

Today Daddy got his practice in for the upcoming Snuggie Pub Crawl. (Something tells me he's going to be a Snuglebrity!) I'm still waiting for Bubbie to knit me a baby Snuggie as one size does certainly not fit all.

Gimme 3 Steps

Today I took my first (recorded) steps! I'm not yet walking on my own -- in this video, I used the Alphabet Train Bubbie and Zayde got me for support -- but I'm on my way. Time to babyproof the house Mommy and Daddy -- there's a new El train in town!

Bada Bing

There've been a variety of words that have gotten me to laugh in my day -- my name and whoopise come to mind -- but none of them can hold a candle to the bing. In this vid, Daddy sets up the camera unbeknownst to Mommy and commences bingage. Who needs the bling bling when you've got the bing bing?