Gus's Grandiose Gabble: 76 Weeks Old (October 25th, 2011)

Me at 76 Weeks Old!!

Yes friends, I am seventeen and a half weeks old today! This last week has been a lot of fun! I went to the NC State Fair, had a minor injury, and then something REALLY exciting happened today!!! Interested in hearing more??? READ ON!!!

Wednesday, 10/19/11-

Mom and I got up and went to Panera with Wendy and Ashley. It was a lot of fun! We also went to a place called Kid-to-Kid and mom got me a duck costume that I love! I also got a new vest because it'll get cold in Georgia, but not super cold. My vest should be perfect! I got a few other things there, and then we came back home and I took a nap. Daddy was in NYC and I missed him terribly. I sent him a video and blew him a kiss (the video is on my youtube page)!

Isn't my duck costume awesome??

Thursday, 10/20/11-

We went to McDonald's for lunch with Wendy and Ashley and then headed back to Wendy's to play for a little bit. I was super excited for daddy to come home!!

Friday, 10/21/11-

Mom and I went to the NC State Fair with Kristen and Grace! We were gone all morning and I had so much fun! My favorite part was seeing (and touching) the animals!

Breakfast before heading to the fair

A camel tried to kiss me!!

I wanted to climb in with the animals at the petting zoo!

Me and my very best friend Grace

Me and mom's friend from Oak Grove (where she taught), Suzanne

Grace feeding the goats

Saturday, 10/22/11-

We didn't go anywhere or do anything... but I wore my duck costume for most of the day!!

Sunday, 10/23/11-

Mom had a photo shoot to do and I stayed home with daddy and we watched football all day. It was so wonderful!!

I love my Mega Blocks! I like building things!

I took mom's wallet!

She said, "Thank you" when I gave her back her wallet, so I showed her the sign

Am I the cutest little cowboy or what???

Mom made a delicious dinner... Frito bake!!!

Monday, 10/24/11-

So this was yesterday... it was a pretty good day, but I fell. I was standing on the chair in the kitchen (mom and dad tell me to sit, but I wanted to stand) and then the chair tipped over and I smacked my face into the chair and got a bloody nose. It really scared mom, but daddy got the bleeding to stop and then I got lots of snuggles. It wasn't too bad. :)

Mom and I played with my Matchbox cars. I think they're so fun!! Mom got me some from eBay and I love playing cars with her.

Wearing daddy's bowl as a hat!

Wearing my zombie shirt

Playing cars with mom... she and I make a bunch of car noises while we play

Tuesday, 10/25/11-

That's today! We got up and then I had The Little Gym today! It was "wear your costume" day and guess what? I was the only one there wearing a costume!! Lots of kids had on Halloween shirts, but I was the only one wearing a full costume. The kids in the class before mine (ages 10 months-19 months) swarmed me and were saying, "ELMO!!!" when they saw me in my costume. I got lots of attention in my costume!!

One of the boys that liked to see me as Elmo

A baby that came over to see me

Playing in the gym as Elmo Gus

I got hot, so mom took my costume off while I played

I did a great job of hanging from the bars today!

Getting ready to walk across the high double beam!

AWESOME!!!

After TLG, we went to Wal-Mart to do our grocery shopping and mom put my costume back on me. She figured the people shopping could use a smile. :-) One lady came over to mom and said, "I had to double check... at first I thought you were a crazy lady shopping with a giant stuffed Elmo doll!! Glad to see it's a baby!!"

Guess what mom bought for me today??? A potty!!! I'm not ready for potty training, but mom read that around 17-19 months is the perfect time to introduce the potty and to get me comfortable on it. I like to go and sit on it when mom and daddy are using their big potty. Every time I had a diaper change, I got to sit on my little potty!!