Football, Family, and Fun!

This past week I saw LOTS of people!  My parents' friends, Shlomit and Seth, came over late one night.  In fact, I got to wake up in the middle of the night to play with them!  Once I started rubbing my eyes, Mommy and Daddy made me go back to sleep, though.

I really like Shlomit, she holds me and plays with me.

Seth played "if you're happy and you know it..." with me for a long time...

...and because I was happy, I clapped my hands!

This was Mom's first week back with students, so Cherry and Daddy watched me throughout the week!  Both of them brought me to 'Mommy and Me' and to my swim lessons!

It's parachute time at Mommy and Me!

Guess what's back!  Back again?  FOOOOOOTBALL!!!!!!  I started my Friday night with Mommy and Daddy at North Broward's (that's where Mom works) first home game of the season.  We started the festivities with a nice BBQ.  I ate an entire hot dog allllllllll by myself!

My Mom works with Alex and Jenny, who both had Sophia back on the 4th of June.  We finally got to meet her...she's so cute (just don't tell her I said so)!

The next generation of NB students?!

 I also played with lots of Mommy's work friends:

Me and Dana....she's awesome!  I can't wait until her nephew comes to visit!

Lara and I were able to get a quick shot while her son played!

Karen and I really hit it off.  I spent most of the night with her!  Hope we can have another "date" soon!  :)

Finally, Bubby and Zaide returned from Israel and I was able to spend some time with them this weekend!  Here Zaide is playing "Mr. Bones" with me...that always puts a smile on my face!

Getting ready to be tickled by "Mr. Bones!"

Recently, I've been trying to get the camera into my crib.  Usually I'm pretty slick, but I think I may have gotten caught this time:

Uhhhhhhhhh, it wasn't me!

Am I the son of a dentist, or what?!

So happy to have my tooth!

My Daddy always tells me to, "Brush the ones you want to keep!"

Of course, with Labor Day Weekend, comes lots of good quality family time...and BBQing of course!

I loved playing with the Holzman's doggies!

Getting a close up!

Just us guys...

Bubby says the bones are the best part...I'm still not sure.

"Eye" see you!

Hi Bubby!

It's soooo funny!  I'm up here, and you're down there!

This is some serious hot dog eating going on!

But, nothing tops a good bottle at the end of a hard day.

Lastly, Auntie Shana and Uncle Brian came down this weekend.  I haven't seen them for a couple of months, so it was really fun to show them how I crawl everywhere, stand myself up, and go "Up" and "Down" while holding on to things.

Watch me go "Up" and "Doooooown"

Oh, Uncle Brian, you can't hide from me!

BOOM!  I like to knock down anything that gets stacked high!

It's Curious George!  He's like me...curious about EVERYTHING!

So many cameras...which one do I look at?!

Oh, that one!  Wait, Aunt Shana and Uncle Brian chose a different one...oh well, next time!

Hope everyone had as great of a week as I had...and hope you all have enjoyed your Labor Day weekend, too.

Celebrations Galore!

Since my last post, we've had a lot of celebrations to enjoy.  I got to go to my very first birthday party.  Sarah, one of the girls from my Mommy and Me class, turned one.  She had a great party, and my other friend Madison was there, too.  I even got to play with a ton of toys, dance around to songs, and meet some new friends.

What?  It's not MY birthday, it's hers?!  ;)

At least we get to eat cake!  (Except, I got too tired and left as they were cutting the cake)

I LOVED meeting up with my first friend, Madison, from Mommy and Me.

That's a HUGE bouncy blue ball!

Hands, Hands, Fingers, Thumb...dum ditty dum ditty dum dum dum....

Group shot...sort of.

I was also able to celebrate with Bubby and Zaide for their Anniversary!  We went out for dinner and enjoyed:

They've been married how long?!

My Nanny, Cherry, also taught me how to clap!!!  I do it on command (check me out in this 8 second video):

 Derek Claps

Not only am I doing a lot of clapping these days, but I've also become quite good at pulling myself up and I'm even beginning to cruise around on things (Daddy thinks this happens way more than Mommy sees).

Grandma Candy finally returned from her long week away.  She took me out for dinner and let me try my first lemon!  I must be like Uncle Alex and Uncle Brian.  I love lemons...and I don't even make a sour face when I'm eating them!

Unfortunately, Hurricane Irene ruined our plans to visit a ton of family and friends up in DC.  We won't be able to celebrate Grandma Mildred's 92nd birthday, but we'll have to take a rain-check.  This is an old shot, but it definitely tells you how we feel:

A birthday celebration without us?  We're sad about it, but hope you have a wonderful birthday, Grandma Mildred!!!

Summer Daze

May I have a moment of silence for the death of Summer?  Yes, you heard me correctly.  Summer vacation has come and gone.  It has been great!  Lots of swim lessons, Mommy-and-Me sessions, and those yummy summer treats (ice cream, fresh fruit, and coooooookies).  But, all good things must come to an end.

Mommy will go back to work tomorrow.  But, I'm not worried.  I get to spend the entire day with Bubby!  Plus, we couldn't have finished summer in a more fashionable way:  Celebrating Zaide Mikey's Birthday at Jaxson's Ice Cream Parlor!!!

In more good news...my first tooth broke through yesterday!  Believe me, gumming my food has not slowed me down any, but at least I'm getting closer to really chowing down.  I also took a nap, and when Mommy and Daddy realized I was up...it was because I was standing in my crib, just waiting for them to take me out.

Hi Mama.  Hi Daddy.  Ready to play?

May I come out noooooooow?

Playing with the Hippo-ride with Bubby.

My personal chauffeur.

Just letting my tootsies air out as I ride...

Daddy and I ready to partake in a Jaxson's outing.

Bring it on!

Oh, Wow.  That's a Kiddie Scoop?!

Sparklers for Zaide's Birthday....and he's STILL willing to share!

First bite of Jaxson's Ice Cream.

Then we moved on to a more fun method...putting it in a cone, so I can feed myself!

I even got my Banana in there, too!

Of course, we had to take a family shot!

Zaide, Me, Bubby!

Every time my head would pop through, I'd smile...I thought it was SO funny!

Next time, won't you join me?!

Below are some links to videos from Jaxson's.  The computer is acting funny, so they're not edited.  Maybe I'll get back to that soon:

Watching Zaide's Birthday Sundae arrive - This movie is about a minute in length

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm Ice Cream Cone - This movie is about 7 minutes long

Eating my Ice Cream Cone - Brain Freeze - This movie is about a minute in length

Peek-a-boo Ice Cream - If you only have time to watch one movie...watch this clip!

10 months today!

Can you believe it?!  My parents hardly can....I'm 10 months old today.  (And with all of the pictures we've posted in the past months, they just bought more memory, to be able to post to the blog...can you believe it?!).

 

  
Anyway, I spent my day playing with Elliot (Monika's and Gary's son....he's 3 months younger than I, and we met at a Family and Me class).  Elliot was so nice to share his toys with me and we spent hours playing.  It was really fun!

"The Guys"

Come here, Elliot, let me show you how it's done.

Two heads are always better than one.

To back track from this past week......

The other night, Mommy and Daddy went out for dinner and a movie with Courtney and Fred.  Mom's old students, Katie and Daniel, were great baby-sitters!  Katie was great...she really played with me and read great books to me.  But, I was extremely fond of Daniel.  I couldn't stop staring at him....maybe it's because he spent a lot of time "peek-a-boo"ing behind his hands.  I LOVE PEEK-A-BOO!

Katie, I thought we were going for the serious "Harvard" look.  Whoops!

Peek-a-boo, Daniel...hahahahaha.  You're funny.

As you can see, I also had a great time playing with Poppa.  He read me interesting literature and tickled me until I couldn't laugh any louder!  I also played peek-a-boo with him by hiding under the table and popping out to see him!

Oh Poppa...those tickles!

Really?  Compendium?  Can't we read a little Seuss?!

Peek-a-boo...I see you, Poppa!  hehehe

Finally, the Margolis side of the family helped me celebrate 10 months by sharing ice cream with me.  First my Daddy fed it to me, but then Bubby begged Zaide to share his ice cream cone.  I know I shared pictures of this during the last post...but there was some interest in me posting the video, so here it is (unedited):

Derek's First Ice Cream Cone

After all of that ice cream, I definitely needed a bath:

So fresh and SO clean!

Oh, and in case you missed the line during the video, Zaide said,  "It's a good thing he's taking swimming lessons, so he doesn't drown in his ice cream."  Well, not only am I swimming, I'm guarding the pool!  Have no worries...the waters are safe when there's a Barbag around:

No running on the deck!

Just leave it to us....the professionals!