Butterflies!

Mom and dad took me back to the Butterfly Pavilion today.




I should mention here that I don't exactly get along with butterflies.




I can't stand them!




Mom and dad said I need to get used to them because they're "nifty" and because dad wanted to take their pictures.




I said "OK, but only if you use your butterfly lens on me too." This is what came out.




Before going into the butterfly greenhouse itself, we stopped off at the starfish tank.




I really like starfish.




The first biologist there was really cool and was telling me all about them.



Then this new woman showed up to take his place.




Some people just should not even bother getting out of bed in the morning.




Here is one of the butterflies that we saw. And here and here and here are some Whole Foods Organic Frosted Mini-Wheat landscapes.




Here's another butterfly. It's in the colors of candy, but I am pretty sure it is not delicious (unlike Whole Foods Organic Frosted Mini-Wheats, which are definitely delicious).




Here's the last one. There weren't a whole lot of butterflies out this morning--which was just fine with me.




I didn't care for the butterflies, but I would probably go back just to play on the wooden bridge.

Hat, Luna Bar, Doctor's Kit

My dad sometimes eats Luna bars for breakfast.




If he's not looking, I like to swipe them and gobble them up.




Perhaps you noticed that I was wearing a winter hat in those last two photos.




Just like the Luna bar, it's my dad's!




Hats are my new thing!




In keeping with the winter-wear theme, I'm also wearing my spiffy new winter boots in size 3. They were very hard to find.




I am not a large toddler.




This is where the parents keep all the good stuff, like pens and nail clippers and their own personal collection of Play-Doh.




Uncle Eric sent me a really cool doctor's kit. This is the bandage from it. Dad bandages up my arm even though there's nothing wrong with me. I think he does it to get attention for himself. I'm sure there's a name for such a disorder.




The doctor's kit came with this nifty prescription pad.




With my bandage and my new prescription-writing powers, I'll be the youngest doctor in Boulder.




I'm giving you two refills, but I expect to see you back here in March.

Things I play with every day

Can you guess what they are without looking at the filenames? Click them for larger versions.


This is not an organic Frosted Mini-Wheat with ketchup, although that does sound good.




This is not a weather event on Saturn, although that sounds good too.

Cold Snap, Party, Mess

It was super cold outside yesterday, so I just stayed indoors and looked for kitties out the window.

[Ed. note: "Kitties" includes cats, squirrels, and most other animals--but not dogs or deer, both of which are "doggies."]




Every once in a while, I saw one of our neighbors cleaning off a car or shoveling the sidewalk.




I waved to our across-the-street neighbor Angelo. He waved back!




When I got hungry, I signaled to my parents as best I could.




We did a bunch of puzzles.




I love puzzles!




The night before, we had a party with some of my friends. Dad took pictures of them. This is my friend Rosie. She's my size, which is cool.




This is my friend Isabella. She's in a philosophical mood.




This is my friend Maisie. She is actually in color when you meet her in person. All of these people are.




Here's my friend Henry. He is the only guy still living in the area from our original group.




Mom and Dad fed me "soup and a sandwich" yesterday--but they forgot to combine the two items.




I took care of that myself.




Yum!




Spoons are great and all, but after a while it's just time to chow down.




I like to carefully slather my bread with the goop I've created on my plate.




This is pretty much how I eat most of the time. Dad says he's going to put a floor drain in the kitchen so he can just hose everything off when I'm done.




Because I'm not exactly a portly toddler, Mom and Dad indulge my constant requests for avocados. They're my favorite food.




What? Wait--hold on a sec. I just need to power through this towering spoon of avocado.




I consider this training for my career as a trumpeter.




Here, have some! I don't need to eat an entire avocado.




Fair enough. I don't need to, but I'm not going to toss it overboard either.

Chicken and Spices

It was really, really cold today, so we stayed inside. It was a good day for chicken and spices.



I like to sit down and relax with my chicken, Bok Bok.




I also like to stack my toy spices into towers.

Dad cannot stop with this lens

Dad got this new lens yesterday and he just won't stop using it.




Of course, I also won't stop smiling for the camera.




Ba ha ha!




Dad says all these photos were shot at f/2.




I have no idea what he's talking about, and I told him that nobody cares.




Of course, I won't stop making fun faces for the camera either.




I guess this will just continue indefinitely.

On the bridge

Dad took me and his new lens to my favorite bridge today. I took off a shoe and sock and was getting ready to throw them over, but that was after he took this picture.

On the way to the park, I met up with a friendly cat who let me pet her, but then she ran away. I said "bye bye" to her and waved.

Red-suited fat man is not OK--not OK at all!

Mom and dad made me go visit this horrible, horrible man today.




His elf helper was much nicer. She let me color!




That's really all I wanted to do.




Mom suggested taking me back to the red-suited fat man after I calmed down. Dad convinced her it wasn't a good idea--which is for the best.




I was ready to cause a scene if it came to that.




There were rumors going around among all the toddlers that the red-suited fat man was some sort of vampire or werewolf.




I'm old enough to know those things aren't real. The red-suited fat man is who I thought he was: a fat man in a red suit who terrorizes children for sport.




Finally, we went home. Dad got a new lens from UPS when we arrived. He decided to try it out on me. Click all these photos to count my eyelashes!




This is my dog shirt.




You know that dad refuses to buy me clothes unless they have animals, right?




High school is going to be a very strange time for me.




This shirt is pretty great, though.




Do you see my play kitchen back there behind me? Of course not--this new lens renders backgrounds so smoothly out of focus that you don't even see my kitchen.




This is the kind of thing dad cares about. Well, that and animal clothes.




Sure, he forgets to feed me for three or four days, but his backgrounds are always smooth.




You get used to his priorities after a while.




I can't wait to go to NYC for the holidays. The grandparents feed me every day!

That's the TV reflected in my eyes

I've been watching a few minutes of TV here and there recently.




I do hope it won't turn me into a TV zombie.




My favorite shows include Moose and Zee, Max and Ruby, Wonderpets, and World Extreme Cagefighting.




I am kidding about one of those.